New York — The brothers worked in the glamorous and glamorous Hamptons and South Beach. Two distinguished real estate brokers were called “The A-Team.” The third went to law school and ran his family’s private security company, which provides its services to heads of state and the rich and famous.
They frequented nightclubs, traveled on yachts, and traveled on private planes. One of them lived alongside celebrities and corporate titans on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row. Others had multi-million dollar waterfront mansions in Miami.
But behind their posh and rambling facade, prosecutors say, Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — were predators who sexually assaulted, trafficked and raped dozens of women from 2008 to 2021, often incapacitating them with drugs and sometimes recording their crimes on video.
Prosecutors said the brothers met victims at nightclubs, parties and on dating apps, recruited others to take trips to lavish locations, pay for their trips and stay at upscale hotels or luxury vacation rentals before drugging and raping them. In all, dozens of women accused them of wrongdoing.
Now, the brothers — Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren, 38 — face a reckoning that prosecutors say has been more than a decade in the making: a sex-trafficking trial that could put them in prison for the rest of their lives.
Opening statements are scheduled for Tuesday in the brothers’ trial in federal court in Manhattan, after it was postponed for a day due to heavy snowfall over the weekend in New York.
Oren and Tal Alexander, real estate dealers who specialize in high-end real estate in Miami, New York and Los Angeles, have pleaded not guilty, along with their brother Alon, who graduated from New York Law School before taking his position at the security company.
The three have been held without bail since their arrest in December 2024. They were charged months after several women filed lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct.
An Alexander Brothers spokesperson said they “categorically deny that anyone was drugged, assaulted, or coerced, and the government has provided no physical evidence, medical records, contemporaneous complaints, or objective evidence to substantiate these allegations.”
“This case highlights a broader concern about how federal sex trafficking law is enforced,” police spokeswoman Judah Engelmayer said. “Congress passed this law to address force, coercion, and exploitation, not to criminalize consensual adult relationships by retroactive inference or narrative.”
“As the defense has consistently said, the allegations are not evidence,” Engelmayer added.
The brothers’ lawyers promised to show the jury of six men and six women that prosecutors had taken innocent romantic and sexual encounters and turned them into criminal activity through clever advocacy.
Oren Alexander’s attorney, Mark Agnifilo, said the defense plans to prove that the witnesses lied to the government and that their testimony cannot be trusted.
Judge Valerie E. Caproni, who will preside over the trial, has rejected defense requests to dismiss the charges or move the case to state court. Lawyers for the Alexander family said the charges against them were similar to the “rape” crimes commonly prosecuted in state courts, but Caproni disagreed.
“This grossly misrepresents the nature of the charges,” the judge wrote.
Agnifilo said the jury will hear evidence about group sex, threesomes and promiscuity. During jury selection last week, potential jurors were asked questions related to sexual activity and sex crimes.
“The case is about sex and sexuality,” said Agnifilo, who represented Sean “Diddy” Combs last year after the hip-hop mogul was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges, but was convicted on lesser prostitution charges.
In court papers, the Alexander brothers’ lawyers wrote that among the defendants who expected to testify at trial, they found evidence that “undermines virtually every aspect of the alleged victims’ accounts.”
Prosecutors said their evidence would show that the brothers “acted with apparent impunity, forcibly raping women whenever they wanted to.”
Copyright © 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.