The sex-trafficking prosecution of luxurious actual property brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother Alon can transfer forward after a federal choose on Tuesday rejected most of their makes an attempt to get the costs tossed.
Manhattan federal Decide Valerie Caproni dominated the allegations in opposition to the brothers, who’ve been accused of dozens of situations of rape and sexual assault spanning greater than a decade, are legally sound sufficient to proceed to trial.
The choice, initially issued Oct. 17 however stored below seal till Tuesday, is a serious blow to the protection crew’s technique to derail the case earlier than it ever reaches a jury.
Greater than 60 girls have reported being sexually assaulted by at the very least one of many brothers, prosecutors say, and 11 new victims have come ahead with civil lawsuits.
The brothers face 10 felony counts together with conspiracy and intercourse trafficking.
They’ve pleaded not responsible and stay locked up since their December arrest.
Prosecutors allege the Alexanders conspired from 2009 via 2021 to drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of ladies — luring them with luxurious lodge stays, worldwide journey and entry to unique occasions.
In some instances, victims had been transported throughout state and worldwide strains, then drugged and bodily restrained earlier than being raped, in keeping with the indictment.
One girl mentioned she met Oren Alexander at an opulent Miami home celebration in 2018, the place he supplied to present her a tour of the property after placing up a dialog.
He led her to a bed room, then “aggressively threw her onto the mattress and forcibly sexually assaulted her,” in keeping with her lawsuit.
In one other incident, a lady mentioned she was invited to a New York Metropolis home celebration by Tal Alexander in July 2013, the place she was handed an alcoholic beverage and felt “lightheaded and disoriented.”
She says she was forcibly raped by Tal and Oren Alexander.
The brothers’ legal professionals argued the costs had been too obscure, lacked specificity and in some instances had been too previous to prosecute.
Caproni didn’t shopping for most of it.
She did slim one rely — an tried sex-trafficking cost from June 2009 — ruling it was barred by the statute of limitations.
However she left intact the precise sex-trafficking cost from the identical incident, acknowledging the choice “might create an anomalous consequence.”
The choose additionally rejected the Alexanders’ requests to suppress proof seized from one of many brothers’ New York flats, from cloud storage information, and from a Fb account.
That proof will now be honest recreation at trial.
Authorities executed a warrant in December to look Tal Alexander’s residence inside a skyscraper on Manhattan’s “Billionaire’s Row.”
Through the search, a number of arduous drives had been found and seized, together with one with a big amount of sexually express movies and footage, prosecutors say.
The seized movies present Alon and Oren Alexander and different males engaged in sexual contact with girls “who’re visibly inebriated or different substances,” prosecutors wrote in a letter.
In some instances, at the very least one of many brothers and one other man “bodily manipulated the ladies’s our bodies so as to have intercourse with them whereas the ladies didn’t actively take part within the sexual exercise or turned away.”
The brothers had been first arrested in Florida in December 2024 on an preliminary indictment charging one rely of sex-trafficking conspiracy and two counts of intercourse trafficking.
A grand jury returned a superseding indictment in Might, and when the brothers confirmed up on the courthouse in June for his or her arraignment, they had been hit with one more superseding indictment and arrested once more.
Oren and Tal made their names on the planet of luxurious actual property as brokers for Douglas Elliman. They ultimately beginning their very own agency, Official, in 2022.
Alon, who’s Oren’s twin brother, labored at a safety firm owned by the household. Tal Alexander, the eldest sibling, is just not a twin.
The brothers additionally face a number of civil lawsuits from girls making related allegations.
Protection attorneys have known as the lawsuits a “money seize” and accused a high-profile personal-injury legislation agency, Morgan & Morgan, of “dictating” the felony investigation.
“For months, we’ve watched orchestrated efforts encouraging girls to revenue from previous sexual experiences with the Alexander brothers,” Tal Alexander’s attorneys, Milton Williams and Deanna Paul, mentioned.
“These frivolous lawsuits, filed days earlier than the legislation’s look-back window is about to run out, are a clear try at a money seize.”
The brothers are being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn — the identical detention facility at present holding the alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione.
The Publish has sought remark from the Alexander brothers.
