Prosecutors filed a fourth indictment against former top brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother Alon, weeks away from their scheduled trial for federal sex trafficking charges.
The indictment, which brings the total number of counts against one or more of the brothers to 11, added a count against Oren of sexual exploitation of a minor in 2009. Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wrote in the filing that Oren recorded himself engaging in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl in Manhattan.
Prosecutors previously charged the brothers with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, accusing them of working together to “repeatedly and violently” drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of women between 2009 and 2021, in part by inviting women to travel and stay in luxury destinations.
Tal, Oren and Alon have denied the allegations. They will face the charges in a trial set to begin Jan. 5.
Because the latest indictment was filed after the deadline passed for pretrial motions, Oren’s attorneys are requesting that the charge be separated from counts one through 10 and tried at a later date, wrote Marc Agnifilo, Zach Intrater and Teny Geragos in a letter to the judge dated Sunday. Agnifilo and Geragos were part of Diddy’s team of attorneys in his recent sex trafficking trial.
Tal, Oren and Alon were arrested in Miami in December 2024 and transferred to New York, where they have since been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Oren was arraigned on the new charge in federal court on Monday ahead of a scheduled hearing in front of United States District Judge Valerie Caproni. All three brothers, who also appeared in court, have pleaded not guilty.
A filing earlier this month showed the government cited 17 additional victims who didn’t amount to substantive charges, but were proposed to testify as witnesses for the conspiracy charge or previous sexual assaults by one or more of the brothers. During the hearing, Caproni heard arguments over inclusion for each of the witnesses, but said she would leave it to the government to make their final case.
During the hearing, prosecutors revealed more details around alleged attacks included in their investigation, including expanding the geographical scope of the allegations to destinations such as Tel Aviv, Acapulco, Aspen and a penthouse at the Cosmopolitan hotel in Las Vegas. The indictment previously mentioned alleged attacks in New York City, Miami, the Hamptons, Tulum and the Bahamas.
The hearing also revealed some details about co-conspirators who prosecutors allege facilitated and/or participated in the sex trafficking “scheme.” One of them, identified only as co-conspirator 1, was a party promoter who, alongside the brothers, rented the home in the Hamptons where the alleged attack of a woman known as “Victim 1” occurred. Co-conspirator 1 also allegedly arranged for buses to pick up women in the city and bring them to the Hamptons house.
One of Oren’s attorneys, Marc Agnifilo, also pushed back against the inclusion of witnesses who claimed to have been drugged by one or more of the brothers because of the lack of toxicology reports to support their claims. However, Caproni said she would allow testimony from many of those witnesses to be admitted and that it would be up to the defense to cross-examine them and their claims during the trial.
Alon’s attorney Howard Srebnick also raised concerns about prosecutors’ description of the brothers’ alleged behavior as a “pattern” and asked to include instances of consensual group sexual activity as evidence rebutting any assumptions that all group sex is non-consensual. But Caproni shot down his request, adding that the government would not be making the argument that group sex is inherently non-consensual.
The video recording mentioned in the latest charge against Oren was on the hard drive that the FBI discovered when agents raided Tal’s apartment at 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan early this year, according to a letter from the defense to Caproni. The hard drive includes more than 1 million additional images and over 5,000 videos.
Because the alleged victim in count 11 was under the age of 18, video of the alleged sexual assault is considered child pornography. Oren’s attorneys argue that the information now provided is “radically different” from what was previously disclosed, when prosecutors had referred to the victim as an adult.
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