Joseph P. Shaw | 27East.com | Oct 15, 2026
 

A high-profile sex trafficking case will conclude later this month with the sentencing of three brothers, two of whom were luxury real estate brokers whose business included millions of dollars of Hamptons sales and rentals.

In March, a Manhattan federal court jury found Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander guilty of multiple federal sex offenses, including conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. The allegations include rapes and assaults that prosecutors say occurred on the South Fork.

Tal Alexander, 40, and Oren Alexander, 39, left Douglas Elliman in 2022 to join a team that founded the real estate firm Official, which included a presence on the South Fork, according to the website The Real Deal. Alon Alexander, who is 39 and Oren’s twin, worked in the family’s private security business.

Eleven victims testified at the Manhattan trial; U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton said they accused the three brothers of “horrific acts.”

“The Alexander brothers conspired to repeatedly lure, drug and rape young women. These are chilling, reprehensible and unacceptable acts,” Clayton said in a statement after their conviction. “We commend the victims for their courage in coming forward and testifying at the trial. They bravely overcame the pain of reliving the abuses inflicted upon them and, as a result, prevented others from becoming victims.”

The New York Post said last week that prosecutors, in a court filing, argued for life sentences for all three brothers at sentencing, slated for October 27, pointing out that more than 70 women had reported being sexually assaulted by the brothers at various locations.

The publication Business Insider, in March, published a count-by-count guide to the guilty verdict, with details about each alleged assault. According to that published account, the allegations included four incidents on the South Fork.

On Memorial Day weekend in 2009, a woman, who was 16 at the time, testified that Tal and Alon Alexander, and two other men, raped her at a rented house in Southampton. She described losing and regaining consciousness during the assault; prosecutors have said the brothers regularly drugged women without their knowledge before the assaults.

In East Hampton in 2011, another woman testified, she felt immobilized after drinking some wine, and Tal Alexander raped her, filming the attack.

A third woman testified that in August 2014, Tal Alexander invited her for a Hamptons weekend in Sag Harbor, then followed her into the bathroom and raped her in the shower as she was trying to leave the next morning.

A fourth woman said Alon Alexander had invited her to a Sag Harbor house on Labor Day weekend in 2016. Oren Alexander reportedly gave her a drink that immobilized her and then raped her.

At the trial, there also was separate testimony by a witness that, on Memorial Day weekend in 2009, she saw Tal Alexander and one of the twins — she was unable to identify which — had sexually assaulted an intoxicated woman, who was asking them to stop, in a hot tub.

The Post said the monthlong trial included testimony of various assaults in New York City and on the South Fork between 2008 and 2021, most involving drugging women the brothers met “on dating apps and at glitzy parties.” Other incidents occurred in Aspen, Colorado, and on a Caribbean cruise, the newspaper said.

They ultimately were convicted on 10 counts of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and other sex crimes.

In a separate, civil case filed in March 2024, a woman accused Alon Alexander and Oren Alexander of raping her at a Water Mill estate known as Sir Ivan’s Castle on May 26, 2012, after they forcibly took her from Dune nightclub in an SUV to the residence, which is owned by Ivan Wilzig, who is also a defendant in the lawsuit. She alleged that a security employee prevented her from leaving the property, locking away her belongings. The two brothers raped and sexually assaulted her in a bedroom. The defendants have denied those allegations.

The Post noted that the plaintiff in that civil case, an Australia native, was found dead near Sydney just days before the criminal trial began. “Local police [in Australia] concluded that she did not die from criminal activity,” the newspaper said.

Last December, The Retreat, a domestic violence agency based in East Hampton, noted, “The recent charges against the Alexander brothers for sex trafficking and sexual assault are a stark reminder of the urgent need to confront and prevent human trafficking in all its forms. … We strongly condemn these and all acts of violence and abuse and stand in support of victims,”

The Retreat has a 24-hour confidential crisis hotline at 631-329-2200.

The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York asks anyone who has been victimized by the Alexander Brothers in any way or who has any additional information about their illegal behavior to call the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI, or reach out to alexander-case@fbi.gov.