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Luxury real estate agents Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother Alon were convicted Monday of sex trafficking for using their vast wealth to drug and rape numerous women they lured into their twisted orbit.

The property hotshots — who catered to celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and helped sell a record-smashing $240 million Midtown penthouse — were found guilty by a Manhattan federal jury after 20 hours of deliberations.

Jurors, over the course of a monthlong trial, heard nightmarish testimony from nearly a dozen women who described being drugged, raped or groped by the three brothers after meeting them on dating apps and at glitzy parties between 2008 and 2021.


  Tal and Oren Alexander, and their brother Alon, were arrested in December 2024 on sex trafficking charges Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Tal and Oren Alexander, and their brother Alon, were arrested in December 2024 on sex trafficking charges Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

The disturbing trial evidence also detailed the siblings sexually assaulting women at gaudy Hamptons mansions, inside New York City apartments, on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado, and during a Caribbean cruise.

Tal, 37, Oren, 36, and his twin Alon, a top executive at their family’s powerful private security company, slowly shook their heads from side to side as the jury forewoman announced each was “guilty” on all 10 counts.

“The jury saw the Alexanders’ conduct for what it was — calculated, brutal sexual abuse that, unimaginably, the defendants celebrated,” Manhattan US Attorney Jay Clayton said in a statement.

Each faces a minimum of 15 years in prison and up to life behind bars at sentencing on August 9 for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and other sex crime raps.

The brothers are expected to appeal the verdict after they are sentenced, according to their attorneys.

“We believe in our clients’ innocence and we will not stop fighting until we prevail, and we believe that we will one day prevail,” Marc Agnifilo, an attorney repping Oren Alexander, said outside the courthouse.

Oren and Tal co-founded the luxe real estate firm Official in 2022 after rising through the ranks at brokerage giant Douglas Elliman.


  All three brothers have been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since their arrest. REUTERS All three brothers have been held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since their arrest. REUTERS

The brothers boasted deep connections in Miami and Hamptons real estate circles, and once helped close a $15 million Miami Beach condo sale to Kardashian and West, and the whopping Manhattan penthouse sale to hedge fund titan Ken Griffin.

But their empire started crumbling in June 2024 when accuser Kate Whiteman filed a lawsuit accusing Alon and Oren of raping her in a Hamptons castle dubbed “the Playboy Mansion of the East Coast.” 

Whiteman’s suit opened the floodgates to other allegations against all three brothers and sparked a probe that led to the trio being arrested in December that year and sent to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center without bail.

While she was not a planned witness at the federal criminal trial, the jury of six women and six men heard from 11 other alleged victims.

One of the accusers, a Ukrainian model using the alias “Bela Koval,” recalled being “paralyzed” by a drugged drink as Oren raped her inside a $13 million Sag Harbor mansion where the brothers hosted parties.

“It was like my whole body was tranquilized,” Koval testified.

A Nevada nurse using the alias “Maya Miller” described Tal violently raping her as she wept in the shower inside the same Hamptons party house, where he’d flown her and a friend for a long weekend in 2014.

“What he did to me, it was pure control,” she told jurors, dabbing tears from her eyes.

Another accuser testified that Alon raped her inside a Manhattan apartment after she met him at an exclusive NBA Finals watch party hosted by actor Zac Efron, who was friendly with the brothers.


  Eleven women took the stand during the Manhattan trial and described various assaults at the hands of the brothers. Bloomberg via Getty Images Eleven women took the stand during the Manhattan trial and described various assaults at the hands of the brothers. Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jurors also watched graphic video that Oren allegedly shot of himself having sex with an incapacitated 17-year-old — who testified that she had no memory of the episode.

Yet another victim testified that Tal and Alon raped her inside a Southampton party house when she was just 16 years old.

The trial revealed crude online messages the brothers sent each other during their alleged reign of sexual terror — including Oren telling his siblings that the “boys need to hunt” because “we are running out of prey” and Alon writing in a text that Oren “took down a 17-year-old.”

All three brothers pleaded not guilty and did not testify.

Their lawyers tried to poke holes in the accusers’ accounts of the assaults, and argued that their stories, as alarming as they sounded, did not constitute sex trafficking under federal law.

“The government wants you to be so horrified by some of the testimony that you forget what they have to prove,” Deanna Paul, a lawyer for Tal Alexander, said in her closing statement.

“Yes, sometimes they acted like entitled assholes,” Paul said. “That’s not a federal crime.”

Days before the trial started, Whiteman, an Australia native, was found dead near Sydney. Local police concluded that she did not die from criminal activity.

Whiteman’s death followed a months-long effort by the Alexanders to discredit her, including by posting semi-nude photos and explicit texts she sent the brothers after the alleged rape in public legal filings.

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