US authorities on Wednesday charged three brothers with sex trafficking, in a chilling case alleging they used their high-profile connections in the world of luxury real estate to attack women for years.
Oren and Tal Alexander are the founders of real estate firm Official, with offices in Miami and New York. According to American media, Oren’s twin brother Alan Alexander worked in the family’s private security firm.
The brothers are accused of using “fraud, fraud and coercion” – including the promise of luxury travel accommodation – in sex trafficking as well as engaging in drug abuse, sexual assault and rape of dozens of women. For.
He “used his wealth and prominent positions in real estate to create and facilitate the opportunity” to do so, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said in a statement.
Prosecutors said the attacks ranged from at least 2010 to at least 2021.
Just two years ago, Tal, 38, and Oren, 37, were the subject of a New York Times profile detailing their successful ventures as real-estate high rollers, including a 24,000-square-foot (2,230-square-meter) Manhattan penthouse Sales were also included. $234 million.
Tal Alexander demonstrated a “no vacation” lifestyle of constantly showing off attractive residences to wealthy clients.
Prosecutors painted a grim picture of the three brothers taking women to events and parties, then drugging them with cocaine, mushrooms and GHB and assaulting them.
Alexanders and those in his circle used “social media, dating applications, in-person encounters… and party promoters who would recruit women for these events,” prosecutors said.
Oren Alexander’s attorney, Susan Nechels, said in a statement that her client is innocent and “the evidence will show that neither he nor his brothers ever committed any crime.”
Elon, 37, Oren, and Tal have been charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and engaging in sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, which both carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Tal Alexander is also charged with a second count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
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