Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison in New York after a jury convicted them of drugging and assaulting women over more than a decade.
Tal Alexander and twins Oren and Alon Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday in New York, seven months after a jury found all three guilty of sex trafficking in a case that stretched across more than a decade of alleged assaults.
US District Judge Valerie Caproni imposed the sentences in Manhattan federal court after hearing from 12 women, several of whom asked for the maximum term of life imprisonment. "Your conduct was monstrous," Caproni said before delivering the sentence. "Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives."
What the court heard
During a five-week trial that ended in March, 11 women testified that the brothers used their wealth and social standing as luxury real estate brokers to draw women to parties, flights and high-end homes in New York, Miami, Aspen and the Bahamas, where they were given drugs before being sexually assaulted. Some of the witnesses said they were minors at the time.
Prosecutors said the men put drugs into women's drinks and physically restrained victims during the assaults, ignoring screams and explicit requests to stop. The conduct described in court dated back to 2008, though prosecutors argued the pattern began while the brothers were in high school.
At Tuesday's hearing, one woman identified in court as Maya Miller said she lost her sense of safety after Tal Alexander raped her in 2014. Another witness, using the pseudonym Isa Brooks, said she was 16 when she was assaulted by Tal and Alon Alexander and described losing the ability to trust herself. A third said Tal Alexander warned her he knew where her sister worked when she considered coming forward.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa told the court the brothers spent years "honing their methods of luring women with the promise of luxury" and were "completely unmoved by the path of suffering they left behind them."
Defense and statements
Lawyers for the brothers asked for 15-year terms, citing their roles as fathers and the hardship their absence would cause their families. They maintained throughout the trial that the encounters were consensual and that their clients were womanizers rather than abusers.
All three addressed the court and continued to deny wrongdoing. Tal Alexander said the brothers had a "work-hard, play-hard mentality" and acknowledged his behavior hurt people's feelings. Caproni challenged the refusal to accept responsibility: "How can someone who never acknowledged the wrongs they did be rehabilitated?"
The judge handed down 30-year terms on some counts and 20 years on others, to be served concurrently. The brothers showed little reaction as the sentences were read.
Background
Tal, 40, and Oren, 39, built careers selling luxury property in New York and Miami, first at Douglas Elliman, where their clients included Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, and later at their own firm, Official, founded in 2022. Alon Alexander, also 39, worked at the family's private security company, Kent Security.
The sentencing closes the criminal case in New York, though the brothers still face separate legal exposure. Reporting on related civil litigation and any remaining charges was not confirmed at the time of publication.
Sources: BBC News; The New York Times; AP News; Reuters; CNN.