Top broker Tracy Tutor filed a lawsuit against disgraced agent Oren Alexander almost two years after accusing her former Douglas Elliman colleague of drugging and sexually assaulting her.
Tutor filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York describing the attack, which she says took place while Elliman was courting her to join the brokerage. The firm invited her to a “Top Producer Cocktail Reception” in New York, flying her from her base in Los Angeles to attend the February 2014 event hosted by then-CEO and chairman Howard Lorber and then-brokerage CEO Dottie Herman, she says in the complaint.
Tutor, who was based out of the brokerage’s Beverly Hills office before she departed for Compass last year, said that at the networking reception, she joined a group of people that included Oren before she was handed a “large, pink cocktail—one that she would not have ordered for herself, given that her drink of choice at the time was a tequila soda.”
“But Ms. Tutor felt it was important to appear social and participatory given that she was vying for a job and hoping to network with top agents who could refer her business,” the complaint says.
After she consumed the drink, she said in the complaint, she “blacked out” and lost her memory for the rest of the evening.
Cory Weiss, an Elliman agent, noticed she was absent from a dinner held after the reception and found her with Alexander in the men’s bathroom, according to the complaint.
“When Mr. Weiss managed to get the door open, he saw Ms. Tutor and Oren, who had his shirt unbuttoned and was kissing her … and touching her in intimate areas for his own sexual gratification.”
Weiss said Tutor appeared “to be out of sorts” and told him to leave them alone, which the complaint says “was totally out of character.”
“She was, in his words, ‘out of her mind,’” the complaint says.
Weiss later left the dinner and asked another attendee to confirm she returned to her hotel, according to the complaint, but Tutor woke up the next morning in a hotel room she didn’t recognize, “naked and alone.” After returning to her hotel, Weiss helped her search for her purse, which the complaint says he located with Alexander’s assistant, a woman named Sarah Williams. (Williams is a New York City-based broker who has since founded boutique firm Societe Real Estate.)
The complaint, which cites New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act and the federal Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act, comes as the federal sex trafficking trial against the former star broker and his two brothers, former luxury broker Tal and private security executive Alon, comes to a close.
The brothers face 10 counts in the case, which is slated to move to jury deliberation as soon as the proceedings conclude Thursday afternoon.
The New York Times was the first to report the suit.
The filing expands on the account Tutor shared with the Times in 2024, where she said she shared a drink with Alexander at a cocktail party in 2014 before she “blacked out.”
Jason Goldman, an attorney who has represented Oren in civil suits and previously in the criminal case, in a statement to the Times dismissed the lawsuit as a bid for attention on the eve of the trial’s conclusion.
“This appears to be nothing more than a transparent attempt to create headlines and taint the [trial] proceedings,” Goldman said in a statement.
Representatives for Elliman did not immediately respond to comment.