New federal charges against Alexander brothers include sex trafficking of a minor
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The legal troubles of the Alexander brothers
The Alexander brothers have been accused in civil, state and federal cases of systematically raping and sex trafficking women in Florida, New York, Colorado, Mexico and Russia. Federal prosecutors say that more than 60 women, including a minor, have come forward. In December, the brothers were arrested in Miami by federal and local authorities, and are currently awaiting trial in Brooklyn’s federal detention center. All three brothers pleaded not guilty and their attorneys have denied the allegations.
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A New York grand jury this week added a host of sex trafficking charges against three wealthy Miami Beach siblings already entangled in a messy high-profile cross-border sex scandal, saying there are six additional victims, including a minor.
A new 14-page indictment filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York adds six additional counts against one or more of the brothers, real estate moguls Oren and Tal Alexander and their security company executive brother Alon Alexander.
The new indictment also orders the brothers to forfeit all property and money related to any of the alleged offenses, and it says that if they fail to comply, the government will seek forfeiture
Oren and Alon Alexander are 37-year-old twins. Tal Alexander is a year older. The three men have been housed in a Brooklyn detention center since their February indictment. Federal prosecutors say they used their wealth and celebrity — and often drugs — to prey on and rape women, sometimes at their apartments, other times after transporting them across state lines, even international borders.
One of the claims in the new charging document goes back to 2009 and claims Alon and Tal Alexander forced a girl under the age of 18 to take part in at least one commercial sex act. The indictment says the brothers had “reasonable opportunity” to know the alleged victim was underage.
The superseding document doesn’t go into much detail about any of the alleged crimes, using mostly rote wording in the charges which claim the brothers “recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained and maintained the women as part of a sex trafficking scheme.
The indictment says some women were drugged and raped by “multiple” men and that they were commonly given gifts that included travel and concert tickets after the alleged assaults. It says the brothers hired party promoters to set up some of the travel and gatherings in which women were raped and sexually assaulted.
Tal Alexander’s attorneys, Deanna Paul and Alexander Kahn, called the new indictment a “reheated” version of the same case that fails to include anything that amounts to federal sex trafficking.
“The government is trying to stretch a statute beyond recognition to fit a narrative, not a crime,” the attorneys said in a statement.
Oren Alexander’s attorney Richard Klugh called all the accusations against his client “meritless.”
“They are completely untethered to any rational reading of the law,” he said. “They’re completely unfounded allegations.”
A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Manhattan refused to comment to the New York Times, citing an ongoing investigation.
The three brothers were already facing single counts of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking through force, fraud or coercion in federal court prior to Thursday’s superseding indictment.
The twins have also been charged with raping and sexually assaulting three women on Miami Beach dating back to 2017. Family friend Ohad Fisherman has also been charged with taking part in one of the Miami Beach sex cases.
The brothers were initially charged and taken into custody through a joint operation between Miami Beach police and the FBI at their Miami Beach homes during early morning hours on Dec. 11. The arrests left the luxury real estate industry from New York to Miami slack-jawed. Often mentioned in the New York tabloids, the brothers were jet-setters who always seemed to be surrounded by beautiful women as they bounced around the club circuit from Aspen to New York and Miami and beyond.
Fisherman, who owns a hummus business and was once referred to in a New York magazine as the “hummus hunk,” gave himself up a week after the Alexander brothers and after he returned from a honeymoon vacation in Japan.
The siblings pleaded not guilty to all the charges in federal court in February. The twins also pleaded not guilty after being charged by the state of Florida in Miami-Dade criminal court, their attorneys citing separate civil lawsuits and arguing it’s just a cash grab from the women claiming they were sexually assaulted.
A federal judge denied their request for bond, citing the alleged complaints and deeming them a flight risk. Fisherman was freed from jail on bond and eventually had an ankle monitor removed. He’s expected to go to trial separately, possibly as early as this summer.
The Alexander brothers — who grew up on Miami Beach and attended Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School — are facing three new charges of sex trafficking through force, fraud or coercion, two counts of inducement to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity and single counts of sex trafficking a minor by force, fraud or coercion. They were all previously charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
During their February court hearing, federal prosecutors promised there was more to come, saying dozens of credible women had come forward since the December arrests, saying they were victimized by the once-celebrated New York luxury real estate brokers, and Alon. At the time, they said FBI agents had interviewed about 60 women since the initial arrests.
This story was originally published May 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM.
