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March 10, 2026

 

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The Alexander Brothers Are Guilty on All Counts The wealthy siblings face possible life sentences for a decadelong pattern of drugging and raping women.

By Bridget Read

Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images

A federal jury has found disgraced luxury real-estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander, along with their brother Alon Alexander, guilty on sex-trafficking charges. It was a total sweep for the prosecution: After three days of deliberation, the jury found the brothers guilty of each of the ten counts on which they had been indicted.

The verdict comes after five weeks of dramatic trial testimony in which multiple women detailed being drugged, raped, and sexually assaulted by the brothers, they said, over a period spanning from the siblings’ time in high school in Miami through Oren and Tal’s career as high-flying brokers at Douglas Elliman before they opened their own brokerage, Official, in 2021. Alon led the New York City branch of Kent Security, the Alexander family business.

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