Woman Sues Alon, Oren Alexander For Rape In Aspen

A woman is suing Alon and Oren Alexander, alleging she was drugged and raped by Alon in an attack that Oren allegedly participated in when she was 17 years old.

Maylen Gehret said she met the twin brothers, who were 29 years old at the time, by chance in 2017 while she was in Aspen for the Winter X Games. In her lawsuit, filed in Colorado on Monday, Dec. 30, she alleges that Alon approached her at the now-shuttered Bootsy Bellows nightclub before bringing her to a table to meet Oren, then a top broker at Douglas Elliman.

Alon “told Maylen that he loved the fact that she was in high school and that he liked high school girls,” the complaint alleges.

The disturbing claims echo a playbook outlined by federal prosecutors in an indictment that was unsealed in December when the twins, along with their older brother Tal, were arrested by the FBI in Miami. The brothers are all being held in a federal detention center on sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking charges, which carry a minimum 15-year prison sentence.

Attorneys for Alon and Oren did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Gehret filed the lawsuit under Colorado’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act, which allows survivors who were under the age of 18 at the time of an alleged attack to sue their perpetrators until Jan. 1, 2025 if the incident occurred between 1960 and 2022.

The complaint states that Colorado’s statute of limitations is six years from a survivor’s 18th birthday, which for Gehret, was in 2023.

Alon and his wife, Shani Alexander, met that year and married in 2020, her attorney said at a federal hearing earlier this week. The brothers, through their attorneys, have previously denied the allegations of rape and sexual assault. Alon worked at his family’s private security firm, Kent Security, and Oren was a top real estate broker in Miami.

Gehret said that Alon gave her an alcoholic drink that she believes was laced with drugs. She describes beginning to feel “out of it.”

“She began feeling hazy and limp and began having difficulties holding her head up because it felt heavy and clouded,” the complaint alleges.

Oren and Alon then told her and her friends about an after party at the Little Nell Hotel, where they were staying at the time.

Gehret said she was later “ushered” into an Uber with Oren and Alon and her friend, referred to as Witness One in the lawsuit. The brothers allegedly brought her, a woman identified as Witness One and another referred to as Witness Two, back to their hotel room, where Witness Two passed out.

She claims Alon “digitally penetrated her” despite her attempts to stop him. He then brought her to the bathroom, where he locked the door and allegedly raped her.

After the attack, Gehret said Alon “forced her to shower.” He then took her phone, followed himself on Instagram and sent a message to his account saying “hey babe.”

Gehret alleges that while Alon raped her in the bathroom, Oren had “ripped the clothes off” of Witness One and attempted to rape her, but she fought him off. Gehret said after she and Alon came out of the bathroom, she noticed he was “making sexual advances” toward Witness Two, who was still passed out.

Gehret “realized that Defendant Alon Alexander was preparing to make Witness Two his next victim,” the complaint states. Gehret then packed up her things and left with Witness Two.

Gehret, who lives in Pennsylvania, is seeking a jury trial and compensatory damages.

The twins’ behavior alleged in Gehret’s complaint is similar to others that have surfaced in recent months. Rebecca Mandel alleged in a lawsuit filed against the twins in 2023 that they lured back to their New York City apartment after meeting in 2010 with claims of a party, only to rape her.

Mandel’s was one of two civil lawsuits, first reported by The Real Deal in June, accusing Oren and Alon of rape in alleged attacks more than a decade ago. The FBI began investigating the claims against the twins and older brother Tal as additional alleged survivors of the brothers came forward publicly. On Dec. 11, the FBI arrested Oren and Alon at their waterfront Miami Beach homes, and Tal at his parents’ Bal Harbour house.

The indictment alleges that they operated a “long-running sex trafficking scheme” in New York and Miami, which included luring women with travel within the U.S. and internationally to vacation destinations.

The three brothers are being held at the federal detention center in downtown Miami. Oren and Alon were also charged by the state of Florida with sexual battery.

Tal Alexander was denied bail and will be transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Oren and Alon’s bond hearings are scheduled for Friday morning. The U.S. Attorney’s office is arguing that Oren and Alon are flight and safety risks.

At a hearing on Monday, Alon’s attorney, Howard Srebnick, said that the Alexander family was willing to provide a bond “in any amount,” floating numbers such as $100 million and $1 billion, to allow them to be released on house arrest. Under this proposal, if any of the brothers were to flee, the bond would be forfeited.