Earlier this week, a federal jury found Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander guilty of sex trafficking and other related charges — a verdict that could land them in prison for life.
The decision came after the brothers spent more than a year behind bars in a Brooklyn jail and capped off a five-week trial, where 11 women testified they’d been sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers.
The jury convicted the brothers on all 10 charges in the federal indictment accusing them of a long-running sex trafficking scheme, each of which carry minimum sentences of 10 to 15 years. Their sentencing, which would likely include restitution for victims, is slated for early August.
But the brothers’ time in the courtroom will likely continue beyond sentencing. Their attorneys indicated they planned to appeal, and they are still facing a criminal case in Miami, where Oren and Alon are accused of sexual battery.
“The legal process is not over,” the Alexanders’ spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, said in a statement. “Those matters will ultimately be resolved in court based on evidence and the law, not on the headlines that often accompany cases of this magnitude.”
The brothers are also named in dozens of civil lawsuits.
Attorney Evan Torgan, who represented the first two women who sued Oren and Alon, along with other alleged victims, said in a statement that he planned to “move full speed ahead” on the civil claims, which he credited as the origin of prosecutors’ case against the Alexanders.
Charges remain in Florida
When the three brothers were arrested in Miami in December 2024, twin brothers Oren and Alon were taken into state custody. Oren was charged with three counts of sexual battery, while Alon was charged with one count of sexual battery. Ohad Fisherman, a family friend of the Alexanders, was also implicated in one of the alleged assaults, but the office of Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle dropped the charge against Fisherman last year. The brothers and Fisherman denied the allegations.
State prosecutors are expected to move forward with their case against Oren and Alon, but that timeline remains unclear. Only after their sentencing could they be moved to Miami from New York for a state trial, and that would not happen immediately.
Fernandez Rundle’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
Oren and Alon’s attorneys in the state case, Ed O’Donnell IV and Joel Denaro, pointed to differences in the federal case: different charges, accusers and attorneys, they said.
“We will continue to prepare for trial on the three Miami cases. We know one of the three accusers had indicated they did not want to move forward with the case and perhaps the prosecutors will now drop that case,” they said in a statement.
The first alleged assault involves Alon and Oren raping a woman who said she was invited by Alon to a Miami Beach apartment in 2016 and Fisherman held her down as the brothers assaulted her. After the attack, she said Oren entered the bathroom where she was showering. “She felt he was there to make sure she was in fact washing up and cleaning herself to rid her body of any possible evidence,” according to the arrest warrant.
In the second charge, a woman in 2017 describes joining Oren at a South Florida real estate event in 2017 where he invited her to his home for a glass of wine. She told police that she felt she was no longer in control of her body as Oren allegedly raped her. Weeks later, she confronted him about the incident. He tried to kiss her, and he lowered his pants and ejaculated on her stomach. “The victim was disgusted and left the area,” according to the arrest warrant.
The third charge is based on Oren allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at his former home on Flamingo Drive in Miami Beach, a property he shared with Alon and Tal. The alleged victim told police that she was able to free herself from Oren’s grasp after he ripped her dress off, but was locked inside the house. When she asked Oren to let her out, he pushed her onto his bed and sexually assaulted her, according to the warrant.
Appealing the federal conviction
Attorneys for the Alexanders will also likely move to appeal the jury’s verdict in the federal case.
Following the verdict, Oren’s attorney Marc Agnifilo — flanked on the steps of the federal courthouse by his colleagues and attorneys for Tal and Alon — told reporters that he believed the defense team had “many appellate issues,” which he said they would raise at the “appropriate time.”
“Obviously not the verdict we were looking for, but we’re going to keep fighting,” Agnifilo said. “We believe in our clients’ innocence, and we’re not going to stop fighting until we prevail.”
Agnifilo did not specify which issues he considered ripe for appeal, though some of the defense’s objections throughout the trial could shed some light on the type of arguments the team could make to the Second Circuit.
During the trial, Agnifilo and other members of the defense team made multiple motions for a mistrial, including after the Department of Justice released 3.5 million pages of documents related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, some of which mentioned the brothers and the name of an alleged victim whose account formed the basis of one of the charges against Tal in the indictment. At least one of the documents was a log of unverified tips to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center.
One of Tal’s attorneys, Deanna Paul, argued that the DOJ’s failure to redact the names “destroyed the possibility of a fair trial” and that the agency, which also includes the prosecutors’ office, had “branded the defendants with the most toxic association in modern legal history.”
“They went to great lengths to take some of the other documents out of the production,” Paul said. “They did not do that with the document in this case.”
Judge Valerie Caproni denied Paul’s request for a mistrial and instead opted to poll the jury on whether they’d been exposed to outside news coverage of the brothers.
Agnifilo later moved for a mistrial again following the dismissal of one of the jurors, who was reported to the judge by another juror for making statements indicating he had prematurely deliberated, violating the court’s rules that jurors not discuss the case with anyone, including each other, before the official start of deliberations. Caproni denied Agnifilo’s request.
“The legal issues raised during the trial, including the government’s unusually broad interpretation of the trafficking statute and several evidentiary and witness-defense rulings, will continue to be addressed through the normal appellate process,” Engelmayer said in the statement. “For now, the focus for the defense team is on the next procedural steps in the case and ensuring that the appellate record fully reflects the serious legal questions that were raised throughout the trial.”
Civil lawsuits
The Alexanders are also facing dozens of civil lawsuits filed in New York, Miami and Aspen by women who alleged they were drugged and/or raped by one or more of the brothers. Two of those women, Brooklyn art gallerist Lindsey Acree and Maylen Gehret, who accused Alon of raping her when she was 17 years old, testified during their criminal trial.
Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel were the first to come forward with rape allegations against Oren and Alon when they sued the twins in 2024. Other women followed suit, including Angelica Parker, who was the first to accuse Tal of rape when she filed a lawsuit against him that June, days after The Real Deal first reported on Mandel and Whiteman’s complaints. Whiteman died last year near Sydney, Australia.
Parker’s lawsuit was later dismissed over statute of limitations issues, along with at least seven others filed against the brothers.
During the trial, two more women sued one or more of the brothers, including Tiffany Rodriguez, whose Florida complaint accused Oren and Alon of perpetrating a sex trafficking scheme with the help of a Miami club, their parents, Oren’s former brokerage, Douglas Elliman, among others.
Tracy Tutor, a “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles” star and former Elliman broker, also sued Oren, alleging he drugged her while at an Elliman event in New York in 2014. In her complaint, Tutor claims she “blacked out” after consuming a drink Oren gave her and was later found with him in the men’s bathroom by another Elliman employee. The next morning, Tutor says, she woke up “naked and alone” in an unfamiliar hotel room.
Oren, through his attorney Jason Goldman, denied the allegations in Tutor’s lawsuit. All three brothers have repeatedly denied allegations and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Their attorneys maintain their clients are innocent.
“The brothers will defend themselves on the civil matters with the same vigor and energy as the federal appeal,” Goldman said in a statement.
Torgan said he’s focused on making the women he represents “whole as best we can.”
“While punishment and protection of society is important, that does nothing by way of compensating these women for what they have lost in human terms,” said Torgan. “And we pursue these cases in honor of [Whiteman] who — at great personal expense — brought the very first case.”
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