Prominent Florida real estate brokers, brothers Tal and Oren Alexander, as well as Oren’s twin brother Alon, were arrested yesterday, all three indicted on federal charges of sex trafficking, according to recently filed documents with the US Southern District Court in New York, while the twins were simultaneously charged with sexual battery in Florida.
The three high-rolling brothers from Miami are accused by federal prosecutors of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, starting since at least 2010, in a series of events in which they allegedly drugged, assaulted, and raped dozens of women. On Wednesday, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office additionally charged Oren with three counts of sexual battery occuring in 2016, 2017, and 2021—with Alon also charged in connection to one of those same incidents as a co-perpetrator.
“Time and again, we’ve seen people who use their fame, their money, their power to create opportunities to commit sexual crimes,” said Katherine Fernández Rundle, Florida’s top prosecutor, who was first elected in the early 1990s, at a press conference in Miami as she unveiled the details of the state charges on Wednesday.
Tal and Oren’s meteoric rise in the real estate industry saw them sell and buy some of the most expensive properties across the United States from Aspen to the Hamptons to Miami to Manhattan, where in 2019 they brokered billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin’s $238m Central Park apartment, at the time, the most expensive property sale in US history. Before any allegations against the brothers became public, Oren’s wedding to a Brazilian model was featured by Vogue last year, while The New York Times covered his weekend brunch and workout routines with Tal.
The host of charges cap a dramatic year for the brothers, after two civil lawsuits originally filed in New York state courts last November on behalf of two young women, who accused Alon and Oren of rape and sexual assault. Two other women came forward with civil suits, also in New York state courts, this past summer, one against all three brothers, and the other just against Oren.
Yet another woman filed a civil suit in a New York court late Wednesday, alleging she was raped by both Alon and Oren Alexander in a Miami apartment. The Miami-Dade State Attorney used some of her submitted evidence to support the state’s criminal charges against the twins Alon and Oren, along with a third person, Ohad Fisherman.
Vanity Fair has spoken to some of the women who have filed suits, and who allege that at least one of the brothers, and sometimes more than one, have raped or assaulted them.
The brothers, who frequently used their Instagram accounts to show off posh homes, flashy parties, and private-jet travel, allegedly planned sexual assaults well in advance, according to the federal indictment filed in New York’s Southern District Court, using promises of “luxury experiences, travel and accommodations to lure and entice” women to locations where they were then raped or sexually assaulted by “multiple men, including one or more of the Alexander brothers.”
The Alexanders had repeatedly denied the allegations in the civil cases, with their reps on more than one occasion publicly asserting that the accusers might be attempting to shake down the successful brothers.
The brothers have parted company with several of their lawyers and a public relations professional in recent months. Their current Florida-based rep had no comment for Vanity Fair.
This is a developing story.
