Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison for sex trafficking in New York

The sentences

On Tuesday, 27 October, Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced each of the three brothers to 30 years in prison in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Prosecutors had asked for life sentences, while the defense requested the minimum of 15 years. Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander were convicted of sex trafficking in March, and they have been held without bail since their arrest in 2024. All three continue to deny wrongdoing and are expected to appeal the conviction. The judge has said she believes the brothers should not be imprisoned in the same facility because they were a bad influence on one another, and their lawyers intend to argue that they belong together.

Defense request (minimum)15

Sentence imposed30

Defense request (minimum)

15 years

Sentence imposed

30 years

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Victims in court

Eleven victims spoke for almost 90 minutes according to the New York Times, and a 12th woman had the government read her statement aloud. The Guardian reported that a dozen victims addressed the court, and several testified under pseudonyms. Several of the women said the assaults had destroyed their lives and their ability to trust other people. One woman described being assaulted by Tal Alexander in a shower while visiting him in the Hamptons in 2014. Another described being drugged and led into a bedroom at a Hamptons property, where she was raped.

Prosecutors said in a court filing that at least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by the men. VRT NWS reported that the court assumes many more victims exist, because the offences stretched across more than two decades, and that some victims were minors when the acts occurred.

How the brothers operated

The brothers were once known in New York real estate circles as the "A Team". Oren and Tal Alexander were star representatives at Douglas Elliman before founding their own brokerage, Official, which made hundreds of millions of dollars selling condos to wealthy and celebrity clients. Alon Alexander ran the family's private security company, and all three projected a lifestyle of yachts, private jets and waterfront mansions in Miami. Prosecutors said the sexual assaults began as early as 2001 or 2002, when the brothers were still in high school. Over time, prosecutors said, the men lured women on luxury trips to the Hamptons, Aspen and a Caribbean cruise, where they drugged and raped them. Their lawyers conceded that the brothers were womanizers and said they had apologized for conduct that was insensitive toward certain women, but they maintained that all sexual encounters were consensual.

The case and arrests

According to VRT NWS, two women took their accounts to prosecutors in March 2024, and the FBI took the three brothers from their beds in the early morning of 11 December 2024. Their parents offered their Miami house, valued at 40 million dollars, as collateral for bail, but the request was refused because the court judged the case too serious. The Guardian reported that the subsequent five-week trial heard about assaults in Miami, New York, the Hamptons, Aspen and on a Caribbean cruise. The brothers were then convicted on multiple charges in March, and they were sentenced in Manhattan on Tuesday.