NEW YORK — Three brothers who prosecutors said used their wealth, influence and access to luxury properties to drug and sexually assault dozens of women were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni imposed the sentences on Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — collectively known as the Alexander Brothers — after 11 accusers addressed the court. Several women became emotional as they described how the assaults shattered their sense of safety, fueled nightmares and left them fearful of men.
“It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was,” one woman said from a lectern a few feet from the brothers in a Manhattan courtroom. She used a pseudonym to protect her identity.
Twins Oren and Alon Alexander, both 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted of sex trafficking in March.
Although none of the brothers testified during the trial, each spoke before sentencing Tuesday.
Oren Alexander spoke first before the packed courtroom. “I am not here to discount what they have said,” he said of the women who accused him and his brothers.
He said he and his brothers came of age during the height of hookup culture and that, looking back as a father, he regretted many of the things he said about women. Still, he insisted they had never violated the law.
“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We never trafficked anyone for sex and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” he said.
Tal Alexander likewise denied drugging or raping anyone. He asked to be housed in the same prison as his brothers, saying their 70-year-old parents hoped to visit every weekend and might struggle to travel to separate facilities.
Alon Alexander said he, too, had changed since what he described as a regrettable past. He noted that no woman had accused him of wrongdoing during the eight years he had been committed to his wife. “Over time, that became my life: work, home, children, parents, community,” he said.
The women who spoke in court, along with another whose statement was read by a prosecutor, were among at least 70 people prosecutors say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over roughly two decades. The alleged attacks took place in affluent settings, including the Hamptons on Long Island and Aspen, Colorado.
Lindsey Acree, an artist and gallery owner, testified that Tal Alexander and another man raped her at a Hamptons home in 2011 after she drank something that left her feeling paralyzed. Abandoning her prepared remarks, Acree told Caproni that even a life sentence would not begin to match the damage done to the women.
“This has wasted my damn time. It’s wasted your time. It’s wasted everyone in this room’s time,” Acree said. Turning toward the brothers, she added: “For why? For you. Because you did some really messed up stuff.”
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“The biggest thing is why? Why did you do this?” Acree asked. “I don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred towards women.”
Another woman who said Tal Alexander raped her in August 2014 told the court she had carried “a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me.”
“Every second that Tal raped me in that shower felt like an eternity of terror,” said the woman, who also spoke under a pseudonym.
Describing her rape in the Hamptons, another woman said: “What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets.”
Prosecutors sought life sentences, while defense attorneys asked the judge to impose the mandatory minimum of 15 years.
Oren and Tal Alexander were once known as real estate’s “A Team” because of their high-end sales and celebrity clientele. After setting sales records at Douglas Elliman, the brothers launched their own firm. Alon Alexander operated the family’s private security business.
They cultivated an image built around yachts, private jets and waterfront mansions in Miami. Prosecutors, however, said the brothers began sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002, while they were still in high school, and eventually established a pattern of drugging and raping women they invited on luxury trips.
Before the sentences were announced, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa told Caproni that the brothers’ “callousness, carelessness, cruelty” and years of allegedly drugging and raping women justified life in prison. She argued that the victims would continue serving “life sentences of pain.”
“Women overcame all the forces telling them this was their fault, they should stay quiet, that no one would believe them,” the prosecutor said. “Despite that pain, so many came forward and 11 women testified at trial.”
Howard Srebnick, Alon Alexander’s attorney, described a life sentence as a “death in prison sentence.”
In court filings, defense attorneys said the brothers apologized to women they had insulted or offended for conduct they acknowledged was “insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times.” They continued to maintain their innocence.
The three brothers were arrested in 2024 and have remained jailed without bail since then.
Caproni has said she believes the brothers should not be imprisoned together because they reinforced one another’s bad behavior. Their attorneys plan to argue that the men should remain together, even behind bars.
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