Two famous genuine estate brokers and their brother have been accused with intimacy illicit trade in a case involving the alleged drugging, attacking and raping of dozens of women over more than a decade.
Prosecutors say Tal and Oren Alexander, who are understandn for selling high-finish properties in New York and Miami, aprolonged with their brother Alon, engaged their wealth to consent achieve of women.
The brothers were arrested in Florida on Wednesday and are anticipateed to be consentn to New York to face the accuses.
A lawyer recurrenting Oren Alexander declinecessitate the accusations. Tal Alexander’s recurrentative, Joel Denaro, deteriorated to comment. Alon Alexander’s lawyer did not instantly react to a seek for comment.
“As of today, law utilizement has interwatched dozens of women who alerted being forcibly violationd or intimacyupartner attacked by at least one of the Alexander brothers,” said Damian Williams, US Attorney for the Southern Dicut offe of New York, at a press conference in Manhattan.
“This carry out, as alleged, was heinous.”
The prosecutors say the alleged crimes were promiseted over more than a decade.
The indictment depicts a scheme that graspd inviting women to parties as well as using the promise of luxury experiences and travel to lure them to locations in the US and aexpansive where the alleged attacks happened.
It also says they protreatmentd substances and provided them to the women and, at times, “surreptitiously” put them in drinks.
Finpartner, prosecutors also say that in some instances the brothers “physicpartner suppressed and held down their victims during the violations and intimacyual attacks and diswatchd screams and see-thcoarse seeks to stop”.
Imarbitrately after the attacks, the brothers allegedly provided some of the victims with concert tickets and other luxury items.
The three brothers are being accused with one count each of engaging in a intimacy illicit trade consillicit copying, and a second count of intimacy illicit trade by force, fraud, or force.
Tal Alexander is also accused with a further count of intimacy illicit trade by force, fraud, or force.
“Oren Alexander is guiltless,” said his lawyer, Susan Necheles.
“The evidence will show that neither he nor his brothers ever promiseted a crime.”
Meanwhile, a lawyer recurrenting the women received the indictment.
“We are content to hear that there will finpartner be some meacertain of accountability for the Alexander brothers and fairice for their many victims,” said David Gottlieb in a statement posted by his law firm Wigdor LLP on X.
“We praise all the survivors who have had the strength and courage to speak up about their unimaginable experiences after years of pain and suffering.”
Tal and Oren Alexander have toiled for genuine estate huge Douglas Elliman, cataloging properties for celebrities including Liam Gallagher, Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
In 2022, they begined a firm called Official.
