NEW YORK (AP) — Two luxurious actual property brokers and their brother have been charged with luring, drugging and violently raping dozens of girls over greater than a decade, based on a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan.
State costs have been additionally filed Wednesday in Florida towards two of the brothers and a 3rd man stemming from three alleged sexual assaults.
Federal prosecutors allege within the New York indictment that Oren and Tal Alexander, identified for brokering offers on high-end properties in New York Metropolis and Miami, and sibling Alon Alexander used their wealth and affect to reap the benefits of girls from not less than 2010 to 2021.
The brothers, who all reside in Miami, used “deception, fraud, and coercion” to entice victims to journey with them or attend events or occasions, usually protecting flights, motels and different bills, based on the indictment. In addition they at instances used the promise of a romantic relationship, it stated.
The ladies have been then drugged and raped by a number of of the brothers, in addition to different males, earlier than being despatched away with live performance tickets and different luxuries.
“This conduct was heinous,” U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams stated at a information convention in Manhattan.
The brothers sometimes met their victims on courting apps, by means of social occasions and at bars and nightclubs, however additionally they used celebration promoters to “supply” girls, based on Williams.
He added that the ladies have been usually supplied medicine, together with cocaine, psychedelic mushrooms and GHB. The brothers even surreptitiously drugged a few of the girls’s drinks, leaving them bodily impaired and unable to combat again or escape from the sexual assaults, prosecutors stated of their indictment.
“In some cases, the defendants bodily restrained and held down their victims through the rapes and sexual assaults and ignored screams and specific requests to cease,” the indictment stated.
Within the Florida instances, state prosecutors described one incident in December 2016 as a “gang rape” of a lady who stated she was invited to a barbecue at Alon Alexander’s Miami Seaside condominium solely to find nobody there, save Alon, his brother Oren and one other relative, Ohad Fisherman, who stays at giant.
The lady, who just isn’t named, stated she was led right into a bed room the place Fisherman held her down and the brothers argued over who would rape her first as she pleaded with them to not assault her, based on Miami-Dade State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle.
The second incident, in October 2017, concerned a lady who stated she was sexually assaulted by Oren Alexander at his condominium after consuming a glass of wine that left her feeling weak and unable to regulate her physique, based on prosecutors.
They stated the third incident occurred in October 2021 and concerned a lady who stated she was assaulted by Oren Alexander after going again to his residence with associates following dinner.
Williams, the U.S. Lawyer in New York, stated the three brothers have been arrested in Florida on Wednesday and can seem in Miami federal court docket earlier than being dropped at New York.
He declined to say if others additionally shall be charged however urged some other potential victims to return ahead.
In the meantime legal professionals for the brothers denied the costs, which embrace one rely of partaking in a intercourse trafficking conspiracy for every sibling.
“Oren Alexander is harmless,” lawyer Susan Necheles wrote in an e mail. “The proof will present that neither he nor his brothers ever dedicated against the law.”
“My shopper shall be coming into a not responsible plea and coping with these costs within the applicable discussion board .. .the courtroom,” responded Isabelle Kirshner, a lawyer for Alon Alexander.
Joel Denaro, a lawyer for Tal Alexander, declined to remark.
The elder brother appeared in Miami federal court docket Wednesday and could have a detention listening to Friday as prosecutors argue he’s a hazard to the neighborhood and a flight threat. The 2 different brothers are in state custody and are anticipated to seem in court docket Thursday.
Representatives for a variety of girls who filed lawsuits earlier this 12 months claiming they have been violently raped by the brothers welcomed the costs.
“We’re glad to listen to that there’ll lastly be some measure of accountability for the Alexander brothers and justice for his or her many victims,” lawyer David Gottlieb wrote on X, previously Twitter. “We applaud all of the survivors who’ve had the energy and braveness to talk up about their unimaginable experiences after years of ache and struggling.”
Tal Alexander, 38, and Oren Alexander, 37, first labored as a staff beneath actual property big Douglas Elliman, itemizing properties for Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Liam Gallagher, and Lindsay Lohan. In 2022, they began a brand new firm referred to as Official.
Alon Alexander, who’s Oren’s twin brother, attended regulation faculty and joined the household’s personal safety enterprise.
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Related Press reporter Michael Schneider in Orlando, Florida, contributed to this story.
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