Luxury real estate brokers charged in federal indictment with sex trafficking in NYC

NEW YORK– Two luxury real estate agents and their brother have been charged with sex trafficking, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan.

Federal prosecutors allege in the indictment that Oren and Tal Alexander, known for brokering luxury properties in New York City and Miami, and brother Alon Alexander worked together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of victims.” ”

“This conduct was heinous,” Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said as he announced the charges at a news conference in his Manhattan office.

Williams said the brothers used their wealth and influence to take advantage of the victims from at least 2010 to 2021.

The brothers often used the promise of a romantic relationship to “lure and entice” the women to travel with them or to attend parties or events, paying for flights, hotels and other expenses.

The women were then drugged and raped by one or more of the brothers, as well as other men, the U.S. attorney said.

After the assaults, the brothers often gave their victims concert tickets and luxury items, Williams added.

The brothers often met their victims through dating apps or through their social connections, but also used party promoters to “source” women, Williams said.

They also supplied the women with drugs, including cocaine, mushrooms and GBH, and regularly isolated them from others and physically restrained them during the attacks, he said.

Williams said the brothers were arrested in Florida on Wednesday and will be taken to New York to answer the charges. He declined to say whether others will be charged as the investigation is ongoing.

“They didn’t act alone,” Williams said.

Lawyers for the brothers did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment on Wednesday.

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Succeed Philip Marcelo twitter.com/philmarcelo.