Flashy actual property agent Tal Alexander raped a Nevada nurse as she wept within the bathe inside a $13 million Hamptons mansion, she alleged in emotional testimony this week.
The witness, utilizing the alias “Maya Miller,” teared up as she took the stand in Manhattan federal court docket, the place Tal, 39, and his brothers Oren and Alon, each 38, stand accused of utilizing their huge wealth to lure girls right into a sick intercourse trafficking scheme for greater than a decade.
“He was sexually aroused when he was taking a look at me after I was crying,” Miller advised jurors.
“What he did to me, it was was pure management,” she stated, dabbing the tears from her eyes with a tissue.
Miller described Tal allegedly attacking her on the finish of an August 2014 weekend when the high-rolling dealer flew her out to a waterfront Sag Harbor manse the place he was staying with mates.
Miller, then 23, had messaged the agent-to-the-stars — who as soon as brokered the sale of a $15 million Miami Seaside apartment to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West — on Instagram and provided her quantity, she testified.
“He appeared like a sociable man,” she advised the jury on Wednesday.
The weekend began out in glamorous style, with Miller and her good friend Alicia being flown to the Hamptons from Manhattan in a seaplane after which ferried by a non-public driver to the celebration home, which boasts a basketball court docket and pool.
“The home I grew up in was nothing like this. I needed to pinch myself,” Miller stated, sporting a black swimsuit jacket over a white button down shirt on the witness stand, sitting mere ft away from her alleged rapist.
However the celebration took a darkish flip after Miller rebuffed Tal’s advances that Saturday evening when the true property bigwig, sporting solely swim trunks, hopped into mattress along with her and her good friend, she stated.
“You’re not going to come back out and celebration? I believed I invited enjoyable ladies,” Tal advised them, she recalled.
He then requested Miller whether or not she had drunk alcohol, and she or he lied that she had been ingesting regardless of having secretly tossed a number of drinks she’d been provided down the sink, she testified.
Miller stated she stayed up all evening and stacked her and her good friend’s suitcases by the door in a bid to barricade herself contained in the room from Tal and one other “taller” good friend who had been lurking within the hallway.
“I simply had a very unhealthy feeling and I used to be nervous they’d come again once more,” she advised the jury.
Hours later, as she was getting ready to go away the home, Tal allegedly burst into the room and “tackled” her, saying, “That is the way you thank me for inviting you to a fantastic residence?” Miller testified.
Miller then bumped into the lavatory and into the bathe, just some ft away from Alicia, who was blow drying her hair, she testified. The bathe had a door walling itself off from the remainder of the room.
She stated Tal then allegedly entered the bathe, turned on the water and — after getting aroused by Miller’s tears — “proceeded to rape me within the bathe,” drawing blood.
“I keep in mind attempting to scream however it felt like there was a frog in my throat,” she advised the jury. “Irrespective of how loud I attempted to yell, it was solely a whisper.”
After, Tal “checked out me and he stated, ‘You wished that. It’s okay, I care about you, you wished that,’” Miller testified.
Protection attorneys grilled Miller on Thursday about why she by no means advised her good friend in regards to the alleged rape. The good friend later despatched a present to Tal thanking him for the weekend, she testified.
Miller additionally texted a smiling emoji to Tal a day after the alleged assault when he requested her how she was having fun with New York Metropolis, writing that it was “f–king wonderful,” trial testimony revealed.
She testified that she was “scared” of the rich property honcho and was “doing my greatest to be in compliance.”
Miller, when questioned by Tal’s lawyer Milton Williams on cross-examination, additionally stated she didn’t imagine that Tal anticipated her to be “intimate” with him as a situation of inviting her to the sprawling residence.
However Tal felt in a different way, based on a crass e-mail he despatched to his brother Alon days earlier than the alleged assault.
“See under these low-cost hookers coming to the Hamptons that weekend,” Tal wrote, forwarding Miller’s flight affirmation particulars, based on the e-mail seen by jurors.
Miller, now 34, stated she solely reported her horrific expertise to the FBI after the Alexander brothers had been arrested in December 2024.
Watching a press convention in regards to the bust on the information, “I took a minute to consider it and I believed that I wanted to say one thing,” she testified.
“I’m 34 years previous now and i do know who I’m,” she advised jurors. “And I need somebody to be held accountable for what they’ve carried out to me.”
Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxurious actual property agency Official, which presents ritzy listings in glittering locales just like the Hamptons and Miami, in 2022 after rising the ranks at brokerage large Douglas Elliman.
The trial is anticipated to final one other three weeks.
Every brother faces 15 years to life in jail if convicted of intercourse crimes raps, together with intercourse trafficking by fraud, power or coercion.
