A judge on Thursday agreed with prosecutors that Oren and Alon Alexander are flight risks and dangers to the community and denied bond for both.
The twins, one a disgraced luxury broker and the other an executive at the family’s cybersecurity firm, appeared in court a day after their arrest on sexual assault charges. They had been held overnight at Miami’s TGK Correction & Rehabilitation Center.
Oren and Alon, along with their older brother Tal, are also facing federal sex trafficking charges. In court, Oren begged the judge to allow him out, citing the imminent birth of his first child.
“My wife is nine months pregnant, due any day now,” Oren said, referring to model Kamila Hansen, who he married last year in a lavish ceremony in the Florida Keys. “Her family’s in Brazil. She’s counting on me to be with her during labor.”
But the judge was unmoved. She granted Oren bond on two state charges but not on the third and most serious one, while denying Alon bond on his state charge.
Their father, Shlomy, a luxury home developer in South Florida, and their mother, Orly, were in the courtroom. The twins appeared one by one, each wearing a “safety smock” made of heavy-duty nylon that can be used to prevent physical harm to at-risk individuals in custody.
In the indictment and in letters to New York and Florida judges, prosecutors characterized the Alexanders as a “significant danger” because of the nature of the alleged attacks and flight risks because of their wealth, resources and international connections. The documents mentioned that Oren had been in contact with another U.S. citizen who fled to Israel after sexual misconduct allegations.
Prosecutors expressed concern that Oren also had an Israeli passport, but his attorney asserted that he only has an American one.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office repeatedly urged the judge to consider Oren a flight risk, reiterating the characterization made in filings unsealed after their arrest and saying he likely posed an elevated threat of fleeing after the federal indictment against him was unsealed.
The judge ordered no bond on one of the cases. For the other two, Oren was assigned a $25,000 bond and ordered to wear an ankle monitor under Level 3 house arrest, with GPS tracking and permission to travel to the hospital as his wife is expected to give birth to their first child.
He was also ordered to surrender his passport and travel documents before the attorney posts the bond. He told the judge federal authorities had searched his home the day prior and might have removed it. The extent of what authorities recovered in the search Wednesday was unclear, but security cameras were removed from the exterior of Oren’s home.
For the first degree felony charge, Oren and Alon will be back in court Friday. Both were ordered to stay away from the victims in the assaults from 2016, 2017 and 2021 identified in the warrants.
Joel Denaro, an attorney for the twins, declined to comment.
Tal is also due in court Friday morning after being held in federal custody in Miami.
Federal and local authorities arrested the twins and Tal in Miami Beach on Wednesday morning. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York charged the brothers with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
The indictment alleges the brothers operated a “long-running sex trafficking scheme” and raped dozens of women over at least a decade.
At a press conference in New York on Wednesday, U.S. attorney Damian Williams said his office was “not done” investigating their activity and emphasized they “were not acting alone.”
The federal indictment is in addition to charges levied by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office, which also include a man prosecutors referred to as their cousin, Ohad Fisherman. Oren is charged with three counts of sexual battery, while Fisherman is subject to only one.
Fisherman, who worked as an agent with Oren and Tal’s brokerage Official Partners, has not yet been arrested. He appears to be in Japan, according to photos posted to his Instagram account.
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