Famed Real Estate Moguls Arrested for Alleged Assaults Dating Back Decades
Miami-based real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, known widely as the Alexander brothers, along with their brother Alon, have been arrested by federal authorities in connection to a wide-reaching sexual assault investigation dating back decades.
According to WPLG, the Alexanders and their cousin Ohad Fisherman were taken into custody after a joint investigation with the Miami Beach Police Department, Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office, and the FBI's Miami office. The sexual battery charges stem from an alleged party in 2016 where a victim was purportedly raped by Alon and Oren, as well as other reported incidents in subsequent years.
"The victim was held down by Fisherman, who pinned her arms behind her back," Miami-Dade state attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle recounted in a statement, per WPLG. "Alon and Oren Alexander argued about who would rape her first. The victim cried, pleading with them not to do it."
A second sexual assault allegation from October 2017 only involved Oren Alexander. According to Fernandez Rundle, he invited the victim to his home after a real estate event and offered her a drink. "As Oren began removing her clothing, she told him to stop. She felt her strength weaken and found herself on the bed with Oren on top of her," she said. Unable to move or resist, the victim says she was raped and went on to tell her sister about it.
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A third victim met Oren Alexander at a dinner in October 2021 and was invited by the realtor on his boat and into his home. After giving her a drink, "He became aggressive, ripping off her top," and allegedly proceeded to rape her.
It's the latest sexual assault accusation for the high-profile brokers. According to The New York Times, in the summer of 2004, Oren and Alon allegedly locked a girl in a bedroom at a party where Oren assaulted her. Another woman told The Wall Street Journal that the brothers tried to assault her while she was a high school student in 2003. That same year, the brothers were interviewed by police after a 14-year-old freshman at their high school was allegedly gang-raped by a group of boys, per WSJ.
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The twins' alleged actions continued in subsequent years. Court documents obtained by The New York Post outline another allegation from a woman who claimed the twins drugged her and took her home to assault her in 2010 when she was just 18 years old. They were also accused of raping another woman at a party on Long Island in 2012. The documented assaults were reportedly just the tip of the iceberg, according to authorities.
The superseding indictment described the crime network in detail.
"Starting in at least in or about 2010, Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander, and Tal Alexander, the defendants, and others known and unknown, operated a long-running sex-trafficking scheme, as part of which they raped and sexually assaulted women to whom they had provided material benefits, including domestic and international travel to vacation destinations, luxury accommodations at high-end hotels and vacation properties, and access to other luxury experiences and events," authorities said. "To carry out and facilitate their sex trafficking scheme, [the Alexander brothers] used deception, fraud, and coercion to cause victims to travel with them or meet them in private locations. Thereafter, the Alexander brothers used various methods, including drugging the victims and, at times physical force, to rape and sexually assault the victims—sometimes alone and sometimes together."
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U.S. Attorney Damian Williams urged any other victims to speak to authorities.
"As alleged in the indictment, for more than a decade, the Alexander brothers, alone and together, repeatedly and violently sexually assaulted and raped dozens of female victims," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "Today, the defendants are charged with multiple sex trafficking offenses. Our investigation is far from over. If you have been a victim of the alleged sexual violence perpetrated by Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander, or Tal Alexander—or if you know anything about their alleged crimes—we urge you to come forward."