As a raft of attorneys duke it out in a Manhattan courtroom over commercial sex trafficking charges levied against the Alexander brothers, a new lawsuit claims the brothers enacted their alleged scheme in South Florida and were aided and abetted by their family and employers.
In a complaint filed in Florida’s Southern District last week, Tiffany Rodriguez accused twins Oren and Alon Alexander of a sex trafficking scheme enabled by a Miami club, their parents Orly and Shlomy Alexander, the family’s security firm, Oren’s longtime brokerage Douglas Elliman and the firm’s former chairman and CEO Howard Lorber. Rodriguez named all of these players as defendants.
The suit adds to at least 30 civil actions filed against the Alexander brothers (though some have been dismissed) on top of federal sex trafficking charges. Rodriguez alleges the twin brothers, who are on trial in New York with their older brother Tal, “used a network of entities and other individuals who helped facilitate, fund, and enable their sex trafficking scheme.”
The suit includes many similar claims to a suit filed by a group of women in February 2025. The past action, filed against all three brothers, raised allegations of attacks that took place between 2009 and 2017 in New York and Florida, and also alleged negligence and encouragement by those closest to the brothers, including their parents and Lorber, who previously denied the allegations through a lawyer. (Rodriguez’s suit does not name Tal as a defendant.)
The brothers have denied all allegations and pleaded not guilty to the federal charges.
Spokespeople for Douglas Elliman, Marriott International, the owner of Edition Hotels, and Orly and Shlomy Alexander did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The assault
Rodriguez says she met the brothers in September 2016 after a promoter invited her and a friend to “hang out” with Oren and Alon at Basement Miami, a club under the Edition Hotel.
After drinking in the club’s VIP section, she was in and out of consciousness and later woke up restrained to an office chair. She says in the complaint she was being raped by Oren and Alon “simultaneously,” with the brothers switching off filming on a cell phone.
She eventually fled the room and the apartment with her friend, whom she told about the attack, according to the complaint. Later the next day, her boyfriend received a video of the attack, she says in the lawsuit.
Shortly after telling a friend about the attack, she heard from a private investigator acting on Oren’s behalf, “who conveyed a threatening and coercive message: ‘the Alexander Brothers asserted that the sexual acts were consensual and that Plaintiff’s credibility would be attacked,’” the lawsuit reads.
Rodriguez said in the complaint she was “unaware of the breadth of Defendants’ conduct” until their arrests by federal authorities in December 2024.
The family firm
Rodriguez named parents Orly and Shlomy as defendants in their capacity as executives at Kent Security, the family-founded private security firm that operates in South Florida and New York, where Alon worked as an executive for much of his adult career.
Shlomy co-founded the firm, where Orly worked as chief financial officer and her brother, Gil Neuman, worked as chief executive officer.
Orly and Shlomy continued “to employ Alon despite reports dating back to high school that he, along with his brothers, were sexually assaulting and raping women,” the lawsuit says.
Rodriguez added in the complaint that Kent benefited from Alon and Oren’s close relationship, which exposed the firm to the increased visibility, prestige and access to elite client networks that Oren enjoyed as a top luxury broker.
The accused enablers at Elliman
“Lorber, and other senior [Elliman] leadership, had knowledge of Oren Alexander’s propensity to sexually abuse women but continued to fund, facilitate, and promote the sex trafficking scheme,” Rodriguez wrote in the complaint.
Lorber was chairman and CEO during Oren and his brother Tal’s 10-year stint at Elliman, and also served as a mentor to the budding star brokers. Oren wrote in the New York Post in 2013 his own father Shlomy referred to Lorber as Oren’s “second father.”
“Multiple real estate professionals reported that they either had personally told executives at Douglas Elliman about assaults by the Alexander Brothers or had been told about said assaults by company executives,” Rodriguez claimed in the complaint.
The claim echoes previous reports that Lorber was aware of specific incidents involving the brothers’ behavior with women. The brothers’ behavior was “an open secret” in the industry, former Elliman broker Brian Meier told the New York Times in August 2014, and it was understood Lorber was aware of “at least one incident.”
Two claims that reportedly made it to Elliman executives were those of Tracy Tutor, a former top Elliman agent who has appeared on “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” who told the Times she shared a drink with Oren after an event in 2014 before blacking out, and agent Jessica Cohen, who said she attended a 2010 birthday party with Tal, Alon and Oren Alexander hours before passing out and waking up in the hospital after someone found her alone in the street.
Cohen said she told Lorber in 2012, when the two were playing chess after work, that she thought she’d been drugged by Tal and Oren. A spokesperson for Elliman confirmed that Lorber had heard of an incident but maintained that it was confidential and not an official human resources complaint.
“The allegations in the complaint concerning Howard Lorber are conclusory and false,” Marc Kasowitz, a lawyer for Lorber, said in a statement. “Mr. Lorber had absolutely no role in or knowledge of the Alexander brothers’ alleged sex trafficking venture. Mr. Lorber intends to get the case against him dismissed.”
Elliman has previously denied any knowledge of allegations against the Alexanders and Lorber’s possible knowledge of any allegations.
