Alexander Brothers’ Sex Trafficking Trial Goes to Trial

The federal sex trafficking case against Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander moved to jury deliberation Thursday afternoon, wrapping five weeks of trial.

The brothers are facing 10 criminal counts in total. Federal prosecutors accused the brothers of executing a scheme to lure, incapacitate and sexually assault or rape women in hotspots like New York City, the Hamptons and Aspen.

Eleven women testified that one or more of the brothers sexually assaulted and/or raped them as far back as 2009. Prosecutors also presented a trove of evidence found on hard drives and personal devices recovered from the brothers’ homes in raids after their December 2024 arrests.

Attorneys for the brothers addressed the jury for a final time on Wednesday. In their remarks to the jury, each tried to distance the brothers from the conspiracy prosecutors have accused them of, and discredit the women who testified in the four weeks of the trial. Apparently borrowing from the approach seen earlier in the trial, they conceded the brothers behaved arrogantly and were crude in their communications. They also took aim at the women behind the allegations, pushing back on their memories of the encounters and questioning their motivations for testifying.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa delivered prosecutors’ rebuttal to the defense team’s arguments, which she called “desperate attempts to distract” the jury from the “overwhelming” evidence presented. She pushed back against the defense’s characterization of the alleged victims as motivated by money and shame over the alleged attacks.

“Humiliation was a sick power play,” Espinosa said, referring to the Alexanders’ alleged playbook for victimizing women. “It was also a way to cover their tracks.”