NEW YORK– Prominent real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon have been charged in New York with sex trafficking.
Oren and Tal Alexander are the founders of the luxury real estate company Official, which has offices in Manhattan and Miami Beach. Alon Alexander is Oren’s twin brother and worked at the family’s private security company.
Authorities say they ran a sex trafficking scheme between 2010 and 2021 that targeted dozens of women. Officials from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York held a press conference in New York City to announce the charges.
“The defendants used their wealth and positions to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women,” U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said Wednesday. “Oren and Tal Alexander mainly used their prominent positions in the real estate sector to attract women to events and parties. At those parties, and sometimes afterwards, the women were sexually abused by one or more of the defendants.”
Meanwhile, officials in Miami Beach are holding their own briefing on the multi-state investigation. Watch live here on CBS News Miami.
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Williams said the brothers arranged domestic and international trips where they carried out their alleged crimes, and recruited women by offering such things as travel, luxury accommodation and access to exclusive events. He said they met their alleged victims in person, through social media and through dating apps.
“Sometimes the defendants chose the women themselves to invite. At other times they used paid party promoters to find women for them,” Williams said.
Williams said the brothers and other men gave the women drugs, including cocaine, mushrooms and GHB, which left “some women physically unable to fight back or escape.”
Stay with this story for the latest updates as we learn more.
