The Alexander brothers are headed to trial.
Former star brokers Oren and Tal, and their brother Alon have spent the last year in jail, after they were forced to trade their waterfront mansions and an apartment on New York’s Billionaires’ Row for Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
Since being arrested in Miami early one December 2024 morning, the brothers have been in limbo, awaiting a verdict on the federal charges that took shape after years of rumors and whispered allegations gave way to a crush of lawsuits and investigations.
But the months of uncertainty are nearing an end: their long-anticipated trial before a judge and jury in the Southern District of New York is slated to commence on Jan. 5.
The stakes are high. The trial will deliver answers for the brothers, who are facing a minimum of 15 years in prison, and their family. But it is also hugely significant for women who say they have been drugged, sexually assaulted or raped by one of more of the brothers, some while they were minors. Beyond the attacks, some women allege the brothers have for decades used their wealth, extensive networks and played the women against each other to suppress the allegations.
Court filings in recent months have raised the curtain on the Alexanders’ all-out defense strategy, the arguments they’ll be raising in court and how the judge is preparing to hear the case.
All three brothers have denied the allegations.
The allegations
Prosecutors have expanded the sex trafficking case against the three brothers since the indictment was first unsealed a year ago. The latest indictment, revealed in late November, brings the number of charges to 11.
Prosecutors accuse Tal, Oren and Alon of participating in a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, including working together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of female victims” between 2008 and 2021. The indictment alleges the brothers, “together and with others,” perpetrated the scheme by inviting women to travel and stay in luxury destinations, where they were ultimately attacked.
In a pre-trial motion filed in November, prosecutors cited group chats where the Alexanders and other men traded graphic photos and videos of women, discussed “hunts” and “kills” as they outlined the logistics for women to join them on trips, like one to Tulum. Prosecutors say in one message, Oren talks about trying “ludes” — shorthand for quaaludes, a drug prosecutors say the brothers had on hand — along with Xanax, MDMA and GHB, to incapacitate women.
Aside from the conspiracy charge, Oren, Tal and Alon are also facing three counts of sex trafficking and one count of inducement to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Alon and Tal are charged with sex trafficking a minor victim, while Oren and Alon are charged with aggravated sexual abuse. Tal is also on the hook for two additional sex trafficking charges and another count of inducement. Oren faces a sexual exploitation of a minor charge, brought by prosecutors in a fourth superseding indictment in November.
When they were arrested last year, the twins were also charged alongside their alleged accomplice, family friend Ohad Fisherman, with sexual battery by Miami-Dade’s State Attorney’s Office. The state dropped the charge against Fisherman earlier this year over evidence tied to the timeline of the alleged attack. Lawyers for Oren and Alon claimed this as a win in their effort to poke holes in prosecutors’ arguments and shape public perception of the case.
But the federal trial is a significant upscaling of the allegations aired in Miami court, with more victims and purported evidence. And the brothers have doubled down on their defense strategy.
Oren brought on attorneys Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, who were dubbed the “dream team” after representing Sean “Diddy” Combs against sex trafficking charges for which he was acquitted. The Alexander family hired crisis communications expert Juda Engelmayer, who also represented Diddy, and counts fraudster Anna Delvey and Harvey Weinstein among his client roster.
The team has largely sought to discredit accusers, accusing women of seeking financial gain by bringing allegations, and to get cases dismissed based on time-barred claims. (One civil lawsuit against Tal was dismissed in January under those terms. Plaintiff Angelica Parker vowed to appeal.)
“For years, a partial and often inaccurate public narrative has been built on allegations that were never proven, some of which have already been dismissed or withdrawn,” a spokesperson for the Alexanders said in a statement. “The government’s latest motions repeat those same disputed claims, stripped of context, and presented as if they were established fact. They are not.”
(Ed. note: The brothers filed a defamation lawsuit against The Real Deal, seeking $500 million in damages.)
New details emerge
Prosecutors have indicated that a crucial tenet of their case lies in disturbing video evidence of alleged sexual assaults, obtained when authorities searched Tal’s apartment at 432 Park Avenue in early January 2025.
One video recorded in 2009 shows Oren allegedly sexually assaulting another person who appears to be “severely intoxicated and incapacitated.” During the alleged assault, Oren moved her body and had sex with the victim, who “did not actively participate,” according to the filing.
“When the victim spoke, her words were so badly slurred that it is difficult to understand what she is saying, making clear that she was too incapacitated to consent to any sexual activity,” prosecutors say.
The pretrial motion laid bare a new raft of details around the allegations included in the charges Oren, Tal and Alon will face at trial, including multiple victims who were minors when they were allegedly attacked by one or more of the brothers.
The accounts, which range in detail, add to what prosecutors say was a common pattern.
Prosecutors have described other instances in which women say they started feeling strange after accepting drinks from the brothers, in some cases losing consciousness, and then being raped by one or more of the brothers, along with other men.
“As much as defendants want to characterize the charged conduct as just men behaving badly, this is not what the indictment charges. The charges are that three grown men conspired to entice women and girls to travel in interstate foreign commerce, to provide things of value to those women and girls, and to use force and drugs in order to have sexual contact with those victims.”
The earliest allegation prosecutors included in a recent filing is from 2009, when women invited to celebrate Oren and Alon’s birthday were brought from Manhattan to the Hamptons by a party bus. After arriving at a rental house, one of the women says she was given a drink by Alon while in a hot tub. The drink made her feel tired, and Alon held her down in the hot tub and raped her as she told him to stop, prosecutors allege. The same night, the woman saw Tal having sex with a woman who was crying.
One of the more detailed allegations centers on a woman who says she met Tal on Instagram before he invited her and a friend to the Hamptons in 2014. He allegedly told the woman that he would reimburse flights for her and her friend and book them a hotel room, only for them to end up in a waterfront mansion with Oren and two friends, given a room with a door that did not lock. The next night, the woman says she noticed her friend “began acting erratically” after consuming half of a glass of wine.
She took her friend to their room, where she piled luggage to block the door. But Tal came in, jumped on the bed and asked if she had been drinking. She said yes, even though she had not, and Tal left. Too nervous to sleep, she again tried to block the door with luggage and stayed awake. A couple of hours later, two men who she believed were Tal and Oren entered. When the woman asked them, “Can I help you,” she heard one of them say, “Oh shit,” before they left, according to prosecutors.
Early the next morning, they were packing to leave when Tal came into their room. The woman says Tal, upset she was leaving, tackled her onto the bed, and she pushed him off. But his demeanor shifted, and he became angry. He chased her into the bathroom, where she says he cornered her in the shower and raped her.
She says she tried to scream but couldn’t raise her voice and instead whispered “no, no, no.” As he left her crying in the shower, he repeated “You wanted that,” and “I care about you.”
The Alexanders’ new A-Team
As their legal battle forges on, the Alexander family has put on a united front — for the most part.
Their parents, Orly and Shlomy, have been fixtures at hearings in New York and Miami and a driving force in determining the brothers’ next legal moves. They have publicly stood by their sons as others previously in their inner circles tried to distance themselves from the family.
Tal’s estranged wife, Arielle Alexander, alleged in court documents that Shlomy and Orly “changed on a dime” when they found out she’d filed to divorce Tal, despite her assurances that she wanted to separate “amicably and quietly.”
“When I told [Orly], she was not understanding,” Arielle claimed in court documents. Orly “told me I should be standing by my husband, and questioned my morals, among other disrespectful statements she made to me.”
Arielle also alleged the Alexanders’ parents “began to terrorize, harass and scare me, acting as their son’s agent and proxy from federal prison.” She accused Shlomy and Orly of barging into the Billionaires’ Row apartment she previously shared with Tal and stealing multiple watches, wines and other luxury goods, along with $50,000 in cash that belonged to Arielle.
After their sons’ arrest in December, Shlomy and Orly appeared prepared to throw the entirety of their wealth in a bid to secure their release on house arrest — a request federal judges have repeatedly denied, citing prosecutors’ arguments that they pose a flight risk and danger to the community.
At the time, the parents suggested their assets, combined with those of their sons, were worth about $1 billion. The family assets include Shlomy and Orly’s waterfront home in Bal Harbour, the office building where their security company, Kent Security, is headquartered, plus homes in Israel and the Bahamas. The family also owns a 48-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado.
As legal bills pile up, Shlomy has tried to sell some of his sons’ properties. In June, the family sold the waterfront Miami Beach mansion where Oren lived with his wife, Kamila Hansen Alexander, before his arrest. A hidden buyer paid about $52 million for the 10,000-square-foot home. Orly signed the deed on Oren’s behalf.
The family also tried to offload another Miami Beach property earlier this year, this one belonging to an LLC tied to Alon. The property at 969 West 34th Street, a planned Alexander Group development, hit the market in February asking $2.2 million, though it was pulled about six months later without finding a buyer, according to a Realtor.com listing. Another waterfront home was listed for rent.
The brothers’ in-court circle appeared to expand for a November hearing to include Gil Neuman, Orly’s brother and a fellow executive at the family’s Kent Security firm; Alon’s wife, Shani Alexander; and their oldest brother, Niv Alexander, who hadn’t been spotted at previous hearings.
At the hearing, Judge Valerie E. Caproni raised the possibility of pushing the trial to May if outstanding issues aren’t resolved before the Jan. 5 trial date. Her warning sparked an outburst from Niv, who was seated behind his parents, uncle and sister-in-law.
“It’s not funny, it isn’t,” Niv said, shaking his head in an apparent response to the potential delay.
Courtroom security and a U.S. Marshal came over to quiet Niv, warning him and his parents that they would have to leave if they continued speaking while the judge was in the room.
Trial comes into focus
In a decision issued in November, Caproni cleared the way for prosecutors to take the sex trafficking case to trial, rejecting most of the defense’s bid to dismiss the charges. She did, however, order prosecutors to drop attempted sex trafficking from one of the charges as the statute of limitations on the 2009 allegation had already expired.
In her decision, Caproni pushed back on several claims from the defense, including attorneys’ attempts to frame the charges as, at best, state-level “date rape.”
“As much as defendants want to characterize the charged conduct as just men behaving badly, this is not what the indictment charges,” Caproni stated. “The charges are that three grown men conspired to entice women and girls to travel in interstate foreign commerce, to provide things of value to those women and girls, and to use force and drugs in order to have sexual contact with those victims.”
She added that the indictment “is not charging sexual assaults that serendipitously occurred when a group of 20- to 30-somethings [went] on vacation and one side of the romantic equation fund[ed] part of the vacation.”
She also rejected core arguments from the defense that have come up in previous hearings, including that prosecutors’ interpretation of the “anything of value” portion of the sex trafficking statute is too broad.
“To the extent the Defendants argue that ‘there is no cash for sex,’” Caproni wrote, “their argument is irrelevant.”
