Luxury real estate brokers and their brother have been convicted of sex trafficking

Two luxury real estate agents and one of their brothers were convicted on Monday in a sex trafficking case where they were accused of using drugs and their influence in sexually assaulting women.

Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander were found guilty on all 10 counts of engaging in a years-long conspiracy to commit rape, sex trafficking, sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

A jury of six men and six women issued the verdict on Monday after a month-long trial with testimony from more than 30 witnesses. They started deliberating on Thursday.

The brothers, who were indicted by Manhattan prosecutors in December 2024, face up to life in prison. They will be sentenced in August.

Prosecutor Madison Smyser in his opening statement revealed that the three brothers worked together for years “raping women and girls … with promises of parties and trips, and when they got there the accused raped them.”

The brothers denied the allegations.

Eleven accusers testified. Six of them are part of the charges against the brothers.

Another victim, who testified under the pseudonym Katie Moore, said she was raped by Alon Alexander after spending the night at a New York City club. Moore told the court that after being given the drink, “his body began to move.”

“At that moment, it felt sudden. I know I wasn’t drunk or I would have lost control; there was no more gradual blacking out. I had never experienced this kind of loss of control of my body before,” she said.

Moore said Alon and Tal Alexander took him and his friend out of the club, and he remembered clearly that they got into a taxi. She revealed that the only thing she remembers is “coming” and going naked in bed with Alon Alexander, who was naked, standing over her.

“I tried to get out of bed a few times, but Alon kept putting me back down,” she said. “Finally, he sat down on the bed, I was able to get up, and I said, ‘I don’t want to sleep with you,’ and he said, ‘You already did.’

One of the charges against Oren Alexander is related to the alleged sexual abuse of a child. Prosecutors accused him of filming and sharing a video of a 17-year-old girl who was unable to work in April 2009.

The woman, now 34 years old, testified that she does not remember meeting Oren Alexander.

Two women stated that they felt paralyzed before being beaten by Oren and Alon Alexander.

Lawyers tried to undermine some of the accusers’ accounts, saying the sex was consensual and suggesting the women were motivated by embarrassment and were doing it for financial gain.

“Financial interest is one of the most powerful motivators. Every story was repeated,” said Tal Alexander’s attorney, Deanna Paul, in her closing statement. “They want money.”

He said the women met the brothers “voluntarily” and were “free to come and go.”

“The government didn’t show that it was commercial sex because it didn’t exist, and they failed to meet their burden,” she said.

In closing, Marc Agnifilo, Oren Alexander’s lawyer, admitted that his client “built a lifestyle by pursuing women.”

“They hurt the feelings of many people when they were promoted professionally,” he said. “They said offensive and hurtful things, and we came here because of those things, not because they are rapists or women who use drugs.”

Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said the defense attorney was trying to confuse the jury.

“There is no valid reason why all these women lied and dragged their friends and family into this. Why on earth would they be here after ten years talking about their sex life. They are sitting here in front of a group of strangers and detailing that horrible crime,” he said.

The brothers were charged with more than 12 crimes. But the prosecutors said that one witness was scared and ended up not coming, so two cases were dropped, leaving 10.

The men are facing a number of civil charges. They have denied all allegations of misconduct. Oren and Alon Alexander they also face criminal charges in Florida. On Thursday, a Beverly Hills real estate agent filed a lawsuit against Oren Alexander, alleging that he drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2014 at a dinner party.

His attorney, Jason Goldman, said in a statement Thursday that the indictment was “pretty and false” and that it was filed the night before jury deliberations “as an attempt to create headlines and taint the proceedings at a critical time.”