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A spate of lawsuits against the Alexander brothers were filed in New York last week, hours before the expiration of a city law allowing survivors to sue their alleged perpetrators.
Thirteen more women filed to sue former top brokers Tal and Oren and their brother Alon between Thursday and Friday, bringing the total number of actions against the brothers to at least 28. The latest civil claims added to mounting accusations the brothers drugged and raped women over two decades in New York, Miami, the Hamptons, Moscow, the Bahamas and Mexico.
Most of the New York-based lawsuits were filed under the city’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, which was amended in 2022 to create a new window for those alleging gender-based attacks to sue regardless of when the incident occurred. The provision took effect in March 2023 and expired on Feb. 28, 2025.
Now that the GMVA deadline has passed, survivors are subject to New York’s existing statute of limitations, which allows them to file lawsuits up to nine years from the date of the alleged attack.
The city’s measure is similar to a statewide provision called the Adult Survivors Act, known as the statute used by E. Jean Carroll to sue President Donald Trump in 2022. The ASA established a more narrow timeframe for victims of sexual violence to file claims, with the year-long window expiring in November 2023.
Attorneys for the Alexanders have pushed back against plaintiffs’ use of the city law, arguing it’s time-barred by the window created under the state law. One lawsuit against Tal was dismissed in January after a judge sided with the defense, though the plaintiff, Angelica Parker, is appealing the decision.
The lawsuits filed against the Alexanders are separate from the criminal proceedings playing out in New York and South Florida, though attorneys for the brothers have suggested there is overlap between the women interviewed by prosecutors and those who have filed civil claims.
The criminal investigation began after The Real Deal first reported in June two lawsuits filed in New York by women alleging they were raped in separate attacks that took place in 2010 and 2012. In the following week, 28 women approached the lawyer who filed the suits with similar allegations.
Tal, Oren and Alon were arrested in Miami in December after federal authorities unsealed an indictment charging them with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Prosecutors say they’ve spoken with more than 60 women who allege they were attacked by one or more of the Alexanders.
Allegations in the civil lawsuits have echoed what prosecutors described in the indictment as a pattern of drugging and sexually assaulting women they met at bars, nightclubs and through dating apps. The indictment also describes the Alexanders’ attempts to intimidate and discredit their alleged victims to prevent them from coming forward with allegations.
Prosecutors said they plan to expand the charges against the brothers with a superseding indictment, which could be filed as early as the spring. Prosecutors have also emphasized that other men, who have yet to be identified, were involved in the alleged sex trafficking scheme.
The federal trial is slated for January 2026 in the Southern District of New York, where all three brothers were transferred at the start of the year. Tal, Oren and Alon are being held without bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
Oren, Alon and their family friend, Ohad Fisherman, are also facing state rape charges in Miami, where Oren has been charged with three counts of sexual assault and Alon and Ohad with one count of sexual battery. Their trial could begin as early as May.
The Alexanders and Fisherman have denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges.
Here’s a summary of the complaints filed in recent days: 1
Howard Lorber, Alexander parents sued
In a bombshell complaint filed Friday, five women sued Tal, Oren and Alon, as well as their parents, Shlomy and Orly Alexander, Howard Lorber, Douglas Elliman and the Alexander family’s Kent Security. The women, Thaty Bruczynski, Samantha Nicholson, Milena Koste, and two Jane Does, allege that the parents and Lorber enabled the brothers’ sex trafficking scheme.
Oren and Tal built their careers during a decade at Douglas Elliman, before they left the firm in 2022 to launch Official Partners, a Side-backed brokerage. Lorber was chairman and CEO of Elliman until he was pressured to resign late last year following an investigation into the company’s work culture.
The lawsuit alleges that Lorber was “well aware” of the brothers’ assaulting women, and that he hosted and attended parties where that took place. It also claims that Tal showed other Elliman employees photos of young women who were “severely intoxicated and/or drugged.”
Kent Security, one of the defendants in that complaint, is the family’s private security firm where Alon was an executive until his arrest. His mother, Orly, and her brother, Gil Neuman, run the company, though Orly is no longer listed as an executive on its website.
2010
Laura Buck alleges in her lawsuit against Tal and Oren that in 2010, Tal spiked the marijuana they smoked with another drug that resulted in her losing control of her body. In a group attack that she alleges included Oren and an unnamed perpetrator with a camera, Tal penetrated her. Buck was a 20-year-old college student at the time.
“As Laura began to lose control, Tal became more sexually aggressive,” the complaint, filed on Thursday, alleges. Oren and the unnamed third person “emerged through the bedroom door, maniacally and frantically laughing … Both men were fully naked and wearing condoms, seemingly ready to rape her.”
Buck was able to get away and get herself home. The following day, she went to a hospital to report the alleged attack and request a drug screen. The police, she said, blamed her for smoking marijuana and the hospital did not run a drug test. She then tried to confront Tal, but when that was unproductive, Buck went back to the building and wrote on the walls in red lipstick that “Oren Alexander is a rapist” and “Tal Alexander is a rapist.” Tal threatened her and filed a police report alleging she harassed him, she alleges.
Buck told the brothers’ friends via text about the assault and even contacted the brothers’ mother, Orly Alexander, according to the complaint.
“In an effort to silence Laura, Tal told her that his mother had terminal cancer and that she should leave her alone,” later threatening to sue her, the lawsuit states.
2011
In one lawsuit, Jane Doe is suing Tal, Oren, John Doe and a woman identified as Hannah Boulos, a likely alias. It alleges that the Alexanders would record their attacks and often “pass” women to business associates to sexually assault them, enlisting a woman who helped the Alexanders traffic victims, including this Jane Doe from New York City to the Hamptons, the lawsuit alleges.
The Jane Doe alleges that Oren and Tal and a John Doe kept her imprisoned throughout the weekend with the use of “disabling drugs” they forced on her, raped and recorded the assault and threatened to distribute the recording.
In another complaint filed last week, Ti Goodwin alleges Oren sexually assaulted her in February 2011. At a party, Oren handed Goodwin a drink, before her night “spiraled into darkness,” the lawsuit alleges. She became impaired and lost control of her motor functions. The next moment she allegedly remembered was waking up in his bed to Oren vaginally penetrating her. She was “unable to move, speak or cry out,” according to the lawsuit. The next morning, she woke up and fled, later telling a friend that she had been assaulted.
“While she wanted to go to authorities, Ti was concerned about Oren’s wealth, power and influence,” the lawsuit states. “Instead of reporting, she repressed the memory of the horrifying evening and tried to move forward with her life.”
Another Jane Doe filed a summons, or a notice of an intent to sue, last week in New York alleging Oren raped her at a realty conference in 2011. The woman, a real estate agent, said in her affidavit that she was drugged and assaulted by Oren in his hotel room. She fears that she will be blacklisted in the industry if her identity is revealed.
2012
In a separate complaint, a Jane Doe is suing Tal, Alon and Oren, as well as Ivan Wilzig, Seth Irving, Lee Kalt and Malinda Carlton over an alleged assault in 2012 at Wilzig’s Hamptons estate, known as Sir Ivan’s Castle. (Kate Whiteman, who was one of the first women to sue Oren and Alon, alleged in her lawsuit that she was also raped in 2012 at Wilzig’s Hamptons mansion.)
Jane Doe said in her lawsuit that she was 25 years old when Wilzig invited her to spend Memorial Day Weekend at the castle. She later learned that Irving, who used other AKAs, would lure women to the property so that the Alexander brothers and other guests could rape them in a “secret room.” She was drugged and assaulted multiple times and left the mansion unsure of who had raped her, but was forcibly pinned down by either Tal or Alon, she alleges in her complaint.
She later found out that she was pregnant, and Irving admitted one of the twins had raped her, the lawsuit alleges. Months later, she ran into the Alexander brothers and Tal asked her, “we’ve met before, don’t you remember me from the barbecue?” Jane Doe replied that she didn’t remember, but noticed everyone else in the room had left except for Oren, Alon and Tal. Tal then demanded oral sex, and when she refused he grabbed her head and tried to force her. She fled the room and ran into Wilzig.
“When she told him what had happened, [Wilzig] responded, ‘Of course it was the twins,’” the lawsuit alleges.
2015
Also last week, Alexis Zettle filed a lawsuit against Tal, alleging he drugged and raped her multiple times in New York in January 2015. Zettle, who was 23 years old at the time, met Tal at the nightclub Bounce, where she was working as a waitress. Zettle describes feeling “very strange, and particularly out of sorts for the amount of alcohol she had drank,” the complaint alleges. It describes her being barely able to stand, “much less give consent to any sexual activity.”
Tal later invited her on a trip to the Bahamas, where she said in the complaint she was assaulted again.
In a separate lawsuit, Kristel Mills alleges that Oren drugged and raped her in 2015. Mills said she was approached by Oren while out at dinner with her friends at Hunt & Fish Club in New York City. He invited her to a party at his apartment, but when they arrived, no one else was there, according to the complaint. Mills alleges that he drugged the drink that he prepared for her, and that she felt her mind was cloudy and her body unsteady. That’s when Oren allegedly began to aggressively kiss and grope Mills, and raped her even though she said “no” and “stop,” the lawsuit states.