Two high-profile luxury real estate brokers and their second brother were convicted on Monday in a sex trafficking trial that accused them of using drugs and their influence to sexually exploit women.
Federal prosecutors said brothers Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander conspired to drug, sexually assault and rape women for more than a decade. The men were charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan in December 2024.
The jury of six men and six women returned the verdict on Monday after a month-long trial that featured testimony from more than 30 witnesses. They began deliberations on Thursday.
Prosecutor Madison Smyser alleged in her opening statement that the three brothers worked together for years to “rape women and girls with promises of parties and trips, and when they got there the defendants raped them.”
The brothers have denied the allegations.
Eleven accused testified. Six of them are part of the indictment against the brothers.
One victim, who testified under the pseudonym Katie Moore, said she was drugged and raped by Elon Alexander after a night out at a New York City club. Moore told the court that when he was given the beverage, his “body began to wobble.”
“In that moment, it felt sudden. I know I wasn’t drunk or losing control; there was no gradual impairment. I had never experienced that loss of control over my body before,” she said.
Moore said that Elon and Tal Alexander forced her and her friend to leave the club, and she vaguely remembers getting into a cab. She testified that the thing she remembered was “arriving” and being naked in bed with Allon Alexander, who had no clothes on her body, standing over her.
“I tried to get out of bed several times, but Alan kept pushing me back,” she said. “Finally, he sat down on the bed, and I was able to get up, and I said, ‘I don’t want to have sex with you,’ and he said, ‘You already did.'”
One of the charges against Oren Alexander is in relation to alleged sexual exploitation of a minor. Prosecutors accused him of making and sharing a video of a disabled 17-year-old girl in April 2009.
The woman, now 34, testified that she had no recollection of meeting Oren Alexander.
Two women testified that they felt paralyzed before being attacked by Oren and Alon Alexander.
The defense attempted to undermine the statements of some of the accused, saying that the sex was consensual and suggesting that the women were motivated by desperation and engaged in it for financial gain.
“Financial interest is one of the most powerful motivators. All stories were rehearsed,” Tal Alexander’s attorney Dina Paul said in her closing argument. “They’re looking for money.”
He said the women “voluntarily” met the brothers and were “free to come and go.”
He said, “The government has not proven that this was a commercial sex act because there was none, and they have failed to meet their burden.”
Finally, Oren Alexander’s attorney, Mark Agnifilo, admitted that his client “built a lifestyle around pursuing women.”
“He hurt a lot of people’s sentiments when he was growing professionally,” he said. “They said some things that were offensive and hurtful and we came here because of those things, not because they are rapists or drug addicts.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said the defense was trying to confuse the jury.
He said, “There is no good reason that all of these women would testify perjury and get their friends and family involved. Why would they be here talking about their sex lives a decade later. They sat here in front of a group of strangers and detailed these horrific crimes.”
The brothers were charged in a 12-count superseding indictment. But prosecutors said a witness was intimidated and did not turn up, so two cases were dropped, leaving 10.
The men face dozens of civil lawsuits. He has denied all allegations of misconduct. Oren and Alon Alexander He also faces criminal charges in Florida. On Thursday, a Beverly Hills real estate broker filed a civil lawsuit against Oren Alexander, alleging he drugged and sexually assaulted her at a dinner in 2014.
His civil lawyer, Jason Goldman, said in a statement Thursday that the lawsuit was “malicious and patently false” and was filed on the eve of jury deliberations as an “attempt to create headlines and derail the proceedings at a critical moment.”
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