Millionaire Realtor Alexander Brothers Arrested Over Sex Trafficking
The arrests come after civil lawsuits accused the siblings of sexual misconduct.
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High-end real estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander were arrested along with their brother Wednesday and charged with sex trafficking.
The brokers—who hold the record for selling America’s most expensive home—were detained along with Alon Alexander, a security firm executive, in Florida, their lawyers confirmed to The Wall Street Journal. Federal prosecutors wrote in an indictment that for well over a decade, the siblings worked together “to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims.”
The brothers would at times use “the promise of luxury experiences” to “lure and entice women to locations where they were then forcibly raped or sexually assaulted, sometimes by multiple men, including one or more of the Alexander brothers,” the indictment alleges.
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Lawsuits brought by two women earlier this year accused twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 37, of rape. A later filing made similar claims against their 38-year-old brother Tal Alexander, according to the Journal. The trio have denied the claims and their lawyers have called the civil cases meritless.
Police cars and FBI agents were seen outside Oren’s waterfront mansion in Miami Beach on Wednesday morning, Bloomberg reports. A spokeswoman for the bureau’s New York office told the outlet that agents were conducting a search.
Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded real estate business Official in 2022 after leaving Douglas Elliman, the brokerage featured in reality TV shows including Million Dollar Listing. After this year’s civil allegations emerged, the brothers stepped down from Official as other executives and agents left the business.
Alon Alexander’s name has been removed from the website of Kent Security, the family’s private security firm.
The Alexander brothers are partly known for their 2019 sale of a $238 million Manhattan penthouse to Ken Griffin, the billionaire Citadel hedge fund founder. The deal set the record for the most expensive home sold in American history.
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