Luxury Real Estate Brokers Alexander Brothers Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

Luxury real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander, and their brother Alon, were all sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York City Tuesday, capping off a vast sex trafficking case in which the men were accused of drugging and raping dozens of women.Attorneys representing twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, requested the mandatory minimum 15-year sentence for their clients, who continued to maintain their innocence, but U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni opted for a harsher penalty, though falling short of prosecutors' request for life imprisonment. Oren and Tal, former superstar brokers at Douglas Elliman who later co-founded their own real estate firm specializing in high-end properties in Miami, New York, and Los Angeles, were arrested in December 2024 along with Alon, who ran the family's private security company. The brothers learned their fate in Manhattan federal court after listening to hours of emotional victim impact statements."I carry a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me," a woman who identified herself by an alias said as she described being raped by Tal in the Hamptons in August 2014. "Every secon...