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.
Officials from the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York held a news conference Wednesday to announce the charges. They alleged that the brothers ran a sex trafficking scheme and assaulted dozens of women from 2010, when they were in high school, until 2021.
“The defendants used their wealth and positions to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women,” announced Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. “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.”
“We will not allow this type of alleged behavior to go unchecked. Predators who coerce victims into sexual acts cannot and will not be tolerated,” added FBI Assistant Director James Dennehy.
Oren Alexander and Tal Alexander speak during a panel at the Rockstars of Real Estate Event hosted by DETAILS Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dan Peres on Tuesday, September 3, 2013 in New York. /Credit: Amy Sussman/Invision for DETAILS Magazine/AP Images
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.”
“Then, as alleged, the Alexander brothers – sometimes acting alone, sometimes with each other and sometimes with other men – forcibly raped and assaulted the women,” Williams said.
Williams called the alleged crimes “heinous” and encouraged anyone with additional information to contact his office at 212-384-2700 or the FBI at 1-800-CALLFBI or alexander-case@fbi.gov.
Meanwhile, officials in Miami Beach were scheduled to hold their own briefing on the multi-state investigation. Williams said the brothers will be transported to New York to face these charges.
Stay with this story for the latest updates as we learn more.
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