A federal jury in New York convicted three brothers Monday on sex trafficking charges following a trial in which eleven survivors testified that the men had used their standing in the luxury real estate industry to lure, drug, and sexually assault dozens of women over more than a decade.
Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander were found guilty after prosecutors demonstrated that the brothers had systematically exploited their wealth, social connections, and professional profiles to gain the trust of prospective victims before assaulting them. The offending spanned at least 2010 to 2021, according to court records.
Oren and Tal Alexander, aged 39 and 38 respectively, were co-founders of Official, a high-end real estate brokerage with offices in Miami and New York that positioned them at the centre of a world of wealthy clients and glamorous events. Alon Alexander, Oren’s twin, worked at the family’s private security firm. Together, prosecutors said, the three leveraged those positions to create and facilitate opportunities to commit their crimes — recruiting women through social media, dating applications, party promoters, and in-person encounters, then subjecting them to abuse at private gatherings.
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Women were lured with promises of career opportunities and luxury travel, prosecutors said, before being drugged with cocaine, MDMA, GHB, and other substances and sexually assaulted.
The FBI New York field office, in a post on social media following the verdict, described the brothers’ conduct as “actions from nightmares,” saying the defendants had committed “disgusting and vile acts against terrified, restrained, and occasionally incapacitated women.”
All three face sentences of up to life imprisonment. Sentencing is scheduled for August 6, according to the New York Times.
The case drew on the accounts of eleven survivors who testified at trial, as well as a broad investigative effort that included cooperation from FBI legal attaché offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Kyiv, and Tel Aviv, along with the FBI Miami Division and the Department of Labor’s Office of the Inspector General. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York prosecuted the case.
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The brothers had, until their arrest, cultivated public images as successful dealmakers at the upper end of the property market. A 2022 profile in the New York Times documented their exploits as real estate brokers to the ultra-wealthy, including Tal Alexander’s role in brokering the sale of a 24,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse for $234 million — at the time among the most expensive residential transactions in American history. The profile portrayed a lifestyle built around relentless deal-making and access to elite social circles, the same infrastructure prosecutors would later argue the brothers turned to criminal use.
The FBI’s New York Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, which led the domestic investigation, said the conviction reflected its standing commitment to pursuing those who prey on vulnerable individuals. The bureau encouraged anyone who believes they or someone they know may have been trafficked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov.