NEW YORK, NY – Three wealthy brothers accused of using their fortune to systematically drug and sexually assault women and girls at luxury properties face federal sex trafficking charges after prosecutors presented testimony from 11 alleged victims during a month-long trial.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones told jurors Tuesday that Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander employed identical tactics to lure victims to high-end locations including Hamptons mansions, Manhattan apartments, Aspen ski trips, and Caribbean cruises before allegedly drugging and assaulting them.
The brothers allegedly documented their crimes through text messages, emails about smuggling “party favors” onto cruise ships, video recordings of assaults, and photographs of victims, according to the prosecutor. Jones described the evidence as “devastating” and said the defendants bragged about their exploits in blog posts with titles including “It’s not rape if.”
“You know this playbook because the defendants did this multiple times,” Jones said during closing arguments, noting that the 11 women who testified “never have met each other and live different lives, but have one horrific thing in common: they were raped by these men.”
Oren and Tal Alexander operate as high-end real estate brokers known as “The A Team,” while their brother Alon works as an executive at their family’s private security company. All three have pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and related charges.
Prosecutors presented video evidence showing Oren Alexander allegedly assaulting a drugged 17-year-old in 2009 at the Manhattan apartment he shared with his brothers. Jones told jurors that Oren recorded the assault on his laptop and could be seen adjusting the camera angle before the alleged attack.
In another incident, prosecutors said two of the brothers and two other men allegedly raped a 16-year-old boarding school student who had skipped her prom to join them in the Hamptons. A photo of the girl sleeping topless was later found on one of the brothers’ laptop hard drives, according to Jones. The victim, now in her 30s, testified that the assault ended only when she kicked one of the men away, after which Tal Alexander allegedly told her: “Don’t be mad at me.”
A United Nations intern who witnessed an assault at the Hamptons mansion testified that she saw the brothers dragging someone to a hot tub and assaulting her despite the victim’s pleas for them to stop. The intern allegedly screamed “I work for the U.N. and I know what you’re doing to girls in there” before using eyeliner to write “RAPIST” on a bedroom door.
One woman testified that Alon Alexander raped her in 2012 just hours after they met at actor Zac Efron’s Manhattan apartment. Efron has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with the case.
Defense attorney Howard Srebnick, representing Alon Alexander, argued that prosecutors conflated the brothers’ “obnoxious” and inappropriate language with serious criminal charges. While acknowledging that Alon “should be and is embarrassed” by his language, Srebnick maintained that “talk doesn’t constitute a crime.”
Jones urged jurors to reject defense claims that prosecutors were criminalizing “hookup culture” and that accusers were motivated by shame or money, noting that one witness was the daughter of a billionaire. “What walked into this courtroom was not shame,” Jones said. “It was courage and resolve. It was the truth.”
Defense closing arguments are scheduled to continue Wednesday.
Alexander brothers, check! Epstein, let’s just ignore his crimes, and trump’s, and lutnick, etc.