Alexander Brothers, Once Real Estate's 'A Team,' Sentenced to 30 Years Each for Sex Trafficking

Three brothers who built one of the most prominent luxury real estate brokerages in New York, Los Angeles and Miami were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years each in federal prison for running what prosecutors described as a decade-long scheme to drug and sexually assault women, closing out a case that shook the upper tiers of the residential real estate industry.

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni handed down the sentences to Oren Alexander, 39, his twin brother Alon Alexander, 39, and their older brother Tal Alexander, 40, in a Manhattan federal courtroom, according to CBS News and NBC News, which both had reporters in the courtroom. Each man also received 10 years of supervised release to follow his prison term, along with fines ranging from $300,000 to $350,000. Federal prosecutors had asked the judge to impose life sentences; defense lawyers had argued for the 15-year mandatory minimum.

A five-week trial, dozens of accusers

A 12-person jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York convicted all three brothers in March on all 10 counts they faced, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and multiple counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, a charge defined under 18 U.S.C. § 1591. The verdict followed a five-week trial and roughly three days of jury deliberation.

Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which first charged the brothers in December 2024, told jurors the men lured women to parties and trips in New York, the Hamptons, Miami Beach and elsewhere, drugged them and assaulted them once they were incapacitated, in some cases photographing the assaults. The conduct, prosecutors said, dated back to roughly 2001 or 2002, when the oldest brother was still in high school, and continued for nearly two decades. A sentencing memorandum cited by NBC News said more than 70 women had come forward with allegations against the brothers; 11 women testified at trial, and six were named as victims in the indictment.

Oren and Alon Alexander were known in real estate circles as half of "The Alexander Team," brokers who marketed trophy apartments and mansions to celebrities and financiers in Manhattan, Los Angeles and South Florida, for a decade at Douglas Elliman before leaving in 2022 to launch their own brokerage. Tal Alexander, a law school graduate, held an executive role at the family's private security firm. The U.S. Attorney's office, in its statement following the verdict, said the brothers' public personas as successful businessmen had helped them gain victims' trust before assaulting them.

Victims address the brothers directly

Eleven women, several speaking under court-assigned pseudonyms, delivered statements before sentencing. One woman, identified as Maya Miller, described being raped by Tal Alexander. Olivia Lane told the court she had been raped at least a dozen times. Another accuser, Isa Brooks, said the brothers' "eyes went black during the attack like I was being mauled by animals." Bela Koval, who said she was assaulted on her first trip to the Hamptons, and Lindsey Acree, who addressed Oren Alexander directly, were among the earlier trial witnesses whose accounts were cited again at sentencing.

"Your conduct was monstrous," Judge Caproni told the three brothers, adding that "rape is about power" and that "having a girlfriend or a wife doesn't mean you are not going to rape or humiliate women."

Caproni, describing the brothers' dual public and private conduct, invoked the image of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in explaining her sentence. She declined to impose the life terms prosecutors sought, telling the courtroom she did not believe the men were beyond redemption, but said she would ask the Bureau of Prisons to consult with experts on whether the three brothers could safely be incarcerated together.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa told the court "the defendants knew exactly what they were doing and they did it anyway." Defense attorneys for the brothers maintained their clients' innocence throughout. Tal Alexander's lawyer, Deanna Paul, told the judge "all the stories were rehearsed" and suggested the accusers were "looking for money." Oren Alexander's attorney, Marc Agnifilo, argued that "all three defendants stopped, and that matters." In brief remarks before sentencing, Oren Alexander said "my son needs me and I need to be there for him," while Tal Alexander said "I wish I showed more maturity" and Alon Alexander said he was "afraid of being Daddy in the photograph" — an apparent reference to his children visiting him in prison.

A brokerage shaken, more lawsuits pending

The case has reverberated well beyond the three defendants. Douglas Elliman, the publicly traded brokerage where Oren and Tal Alexander worked for roughly a decade before starting their own firm, fired its president and chief executive, Scott Durkin, in October 2024, weeks after the brothers' arrest, according to a company disclosure filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing came days after Howard Lorber, the parent company's longtime chairman and chief executive, had separately announced his retirement amid board concerns over workplace culture. Elliman has said it is cooperating with federal investigators examining the firm's oversight of the brothers during their tenure.

Separately, several women have filed civil lawsuits against the brothers that remain pending outside the criminal case, including a suit by television personality and broker Tracy Tutor, who alleged in a Manhattan federal complaint filed in March that Oren Alexander drugged and assaulted her in 2014. Oren Alexander's civil attorney has called that lawsuit "salacious and demonstrably false." Those cases, along with others filed by accusers who were not part of the criminal trial, are expected to continue moving through state and federal courts regardless of Tuesday's sentencing.

What's next

The three brothers remain in federal custody, where they have been held since their arrest in Miami in December 2024 and subsequent transfer to New York. Defense attorneys, who maintained throughout the case that the encounters described by accusers were consensual, are expected to appeal the convictions. The Bureau of Prisons will now determine where each brother serves his sentence, a process that typically takes weeks, and Judge Caproni's request that the agency weigh keeping the brothers together adds a further variable to that placement decision.

For the broader residential real estate industry in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, where the Alexander name once carried weight on multimillion-dollar listings, the case has already prompted a brokerage and its parent company to overhaul leadership and face continuing federal scrutiny. With civil suits still pending and an appeal expected, the fallout from the brothers' conduct is likely to extend well past Tuesday's sentencing.