Alexander Brothers sentenced to 30 years each for sex trafficking in New York

Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison for drugging and raping dozens of women over two decades.

Real estate moguls jailed 30 years for sex trafficking dozens of women

Three brothers who used their wealth, celebrity connections and access to luxury properties to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday, abc7.com reports.

U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni handed down the sentences against Tal Alexander, 40, and twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39 — collectively known as the Alexander Brothers — in a Manhattan federal courtroom. The ruling came after 11 accusers delivered victim impact statements from a lectern just feet away from the defendants.

"It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was," said one woman, who used a pseudonym to protect her identity.

The trio had been convicted in March of sex trafficking following a trial in which none of them testified.

Accusers describe lasting trauma

The women who addressed Judge Caproni described assaults that left them with nightmares, fear of men and a permanent sense of loss. Several choked up as they spoke.

Artist and gallery owner Lindsey Acree testified that Tal Alexander and another man raped her at a Hamptons home in 2011 after she consumed a drink that left her feeling paralysed. Setting aside her prepared remarks, she challenged the court directly.

"This has wasted my damn time. It's wasted your time. It's wasted everyone in this room's time," Acree told the judge. Turning to the brothers, she added: "For why? For you. Because you did some really messed up stuff."

A second woman, describing a rape she said Tal Alexander committed in August 2014, told the court: "Every second that Tal raped me in that shower felt like an eternity of terror." Another, speaking about an assault in the Hamptons, said: "What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets."

Prosecutors said at least 70 women were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the course of two decades, in upscale locations including the Hamptons on Long Island and Aspen, Colorado. The 11 who spoke in court, along with one whose statement was read aloud by a prosecutor, were among that broader group.

Brothers deny wrongdoing before sentencing

Each brother addressed the courtroom before Judge Caproni announced the sentence.

Oren Alexander spoke first, telling those present: "I am not here to discount what they have said." He acknowledged that, looking back as a father, he regrets statements he made about women during what he described as the height of hookup culture. He nonetheless maintained his innocence. "My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We never trafficked anyone for sex and we never conspired to hurt anyone," he said.

Tal Alexander also denied drugging or raping anyone and asked the judge to assign him and his brothers to the same prison facility, citing the age of their parents — both 70 — and their wish to visit every weekend.

Alon Alexander said he had changed substantially in recent years. "Over time, that became my life: work, home, children, parents, community," he said, noting that no woman had accused him of wrongdoing during the eight years of his marriage.

Defense lawyers, in court papers filed before the hearing, wrote that the brothers apologise to any women they insulted or offended through conduct they admitted was "insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times," while continuing to deny criminal wrongdoing.

Prosecution sought life; defence asked for minimum

Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa urged Judge Caproni to impose a life sentence, arguing that the brothers' "callousness, carelessness, cruelty" over many years warranted the maximum available punishment.

"Women overcame all the forces telling them this was their fault, they should stay quiet, that no one would believe them," Espinosa said. "Despite that pain, so many came forward and 11 women testified at trial."

Defence lawyers had requested the 15-year mandatory minimum. Alon Alexander's attorney, Howard Srebnick, described a life term as a "death in prison sentence."

The judge settled on 30 years for each defendant — well above the mandatory minimum but short of the life terms prosecutors sought.

From luxury real estate to federal custody

Oren and Tal Alexander were once prominent figures in the high-end real estate market, earning the informal title of real estate's "A Team" for record-breaking sales and a celebrity clientele at industry firm Douglas Elliman, before launching their own brokerage. Alon Alexander ran the family's private security business.

The three projected a lifestyle of yachts, private jets and waterfront mansions in Miami. Prosecutors argued, however, that they began sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002 — while still in high school — and over time developed a systematic pattern of luring women onto luxury getaways before drugging and raping them.

The Alexander Brothers were arrested in 2024 and have been held without bail since then.

Judge Caproni has previously stated that she believes the brothers should not be housed at the same prison, on the grounds that they were a negative influence on one another. Their lawyers have said they intend to argue that the three should remain together, even in custody.

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