People with vast riches get away with many things which ordinary people do not. However, as the multimillionaire one-time real estate rock stars the Alexander Brothers are finding out, there are limits to what wealth can do.
With the Alexanders facing multiple charges of sex trafficking, a federal judge has knocked down escalating offers to secure release of the three Miami-born brothers: Oren, Tal and Alon.
Their parents, self-made Israeli émigrés Shlomo and Orly Alexander, said this week they would put up bail of “any amount,” up to $1 billion to get their boys out of jail.
Pictures of them led into court in anti-suicide vests and jail jumpsuits are a long way from them rubbing elbows with the likes of Liam Gallagher, Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan and bragging on social media about private jet trips to luxe resort towns, as they used to.
Twins Oren and Tal celebrated their 28th birthday with a decadent bash in a $50 million Upper East Side townhouse. A nearly naked woman was on display for VIP guests to take turns dripping hot wax on her body.
Now, the Alexander brothers are believed to have been traveling by corrections department bus from Miami to New York, where they are likely to face time at the notorious Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while they await their day in court.
“It’s the worst trip of their lives,” a Miami source told The Post. “It’s the most horrifying thing ever.”
In another bid to keep them out of incarceration, their parents had offered to provide private imprisonment. They proposed confining the brothers to a two- bedroom apartment on the eighth floor of a Miami building – non-waterfront and non-luxury, the pitch from the parents emphasized.
It was promised there would be security guards around the clock and an alarm system to ensure they did not fly the coop. Their preferred provider would likely have been Kent Security, a family business, run by Orly and her brother Gil Neuman, and of which Alon, 37, is Vice President.
Meanwhile Oren and Tal, 37 and 38 respectively, are the ones who made their name and money in high-end real estate, grabbing many congratulatory headlines along the way.
However, one source not deceived by their good looks characterized them to The Post as “very mafia … very bad news.”
All three have been brought down by allegations they allegedly drugged and raped dozens of women. According to charges brought against them, civilly and criminally, they sometimes participated together in perverse and violent acts. They have all pleaded not guilty.
“They deserve bail; they’re innocent until proven guilty,” said Joel Danero, one of the attorneys representing Oren and Alon Alexander.
“The reason they’re not getting bond federally is because of the [woke] times we’re living in. They’re being treated unfairly.”
Tal is being represented separately by a different lawyer who did not return a request for comment.
Evan Torgan, representing three women in civil suits against Oren and Alon (civil cases against Tal are being handled by other attorneys), sees it differently.
“The court found them to be a danger to the community,” he told The Post. “The women have accused them of drugging and raping them.”
Characterizing them as flight risks, federal magistrate Judge Eduardo Sanchez stated, “The fact that they’re all facing these charges is enough incentive to flee.”
Prosecutors maintain that over 40 women have been “forcibly raped or sexually assaulted by at least one of the Alexander brothers.”
A hard drive allegedly containing photos and videos of the brothers having sex with women has been recovered by federal prosecutors in New York during a December raid on Tal Alexander’s Manhattan apartment.
The prosecutors claimed this week the videos show the brothers “physically manipulated the women’s bodies … who are visibly under the influence of alcohol or other substances.”
Tal and Oren were, at one point, two of the most successful real estate brokers in the US. Nepo babies, they launched their real estate careers by selling their father’s 10 bedroom spread, located in Miami’s so-called Billionaire Bunker, for $47 million in 2012. It put them on the map and from there, they aggressively worked their way up the real estate food chain
In 2019 they sold a penthouse at 220 Central Park South to hedge fund magnate Ken Griffin, which went for record-setting $238 million.
Within the industry, they were known for having sharp elbows. “They were bullies, very aggressive,” said a New York-based real estate insider. “They were a force of nature and everyone steered clear of them.”
In terms of their alleged sexual proclivities, said a broker in Manhattan, “This has been going on forever. But people were afraid to say anything because the brothers threatened people. They had a lot of power.”
During the three brothers’ high school years, a source on the nightlife scene in Miami told The Post, “They had a reputation that they were bad guys. It was known that they liked to party and take advantage of girls.”
According to New York magazine, local girls were warned to not associate with the brothers and to not drink from open containers when they were present.
A source who knew them back then claims that behavior was abetted by a vehicle parked in front of their childhood home in the posh Miami neighborhood of Bal Harbor.
“It was like a tour bus for the brothers to have sex parties in,” the source told The Post. “Everyone called it the ‘sex bus.’ It was a bus to bring girls to.”
Even a source in the Alexanders’ camp maintains the brothers were out of control.
“Were they complete assholes? Yes,” he told The Post. “Did they ignore girls after they had sex with them? One hundred percent. Did they hurt people’s feelings? Yeah. Did they drug anyone? No. Women were lining up around the block to sleep with them. Between the three brothers and how many women they slept with? I put the over/under at 3,000.”
During this past week’s hearing in New York, a lawyer stated Oren and Alon had passed polygraph tests they had conducted, in which they answered in the negative when asked if they had sex with women who had been drugged. The judge dismissed this argument for freedom as “nonsense.”
She also showed little sympathy for claims that the Alexander brothers have tamped down their sexual appetites since marrying.
Alon wed Shani Zigron, with whom he has two children, in May 2020; Oren married model Kamila Hansen in April 2023 and Tal married Arielle Kogut in October the same year. Oren pleaded with a judge in December to let him out as his wife was pregnant and due any day.
The Miami nightlifer said, “The wives knew who they were marrying. But I do feel bad for [the brothers’] kids. They’ll never see their fathers outside of a prison visiting room.”
However, only if they are convicted. Known for their aggression and deal-making, the Alexander family are sure to be ploughing their considerable wealth into the brothers’ legal defense team and then we may get to see a little more of what exactly wealth can do.
