Three once high-flying brothers convicted of exploiting their wealth and access to luxury real estate to drug and rape dozens of women were sentenced Tuesday to 30 years each in federal prison. US District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced the punishment for Tal, Oren, and Alon Alexander—known collectively as the Alexander Brothers—after 11 accusers spoke in court, the AP reports. "Your conduct was monstrous," the judge told the men as she announced the sentences, saying their insistence that they have been rehabilitated since getting married and having children "rings hollow."
- Twins Oren and Alon, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March of sex trafficking. Prosecutors had sought life prison sentences while the brothers' lawyers had requested the 15-year mandatory minimum. The trio were arrested in 2024 and have been held without bail ever since.
Upon learning their fates, Tal and Alon Alexander sat back in their seats with no real expression. Their brother turned to whisper something to his lawyer as the judge spoke. Many of the women in the packed courtroom gallery appeared unhappy when the sentences were rendered. Over the previous hours, some of them choked up as they described how the assaults stole their innocence and left them haunted by nightmares and fearing men.
- "It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was," one woman, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said as she stood at a lectern just feet from the brothers in a Manhattan courtroom.
- Another woman speaking about her rape in the Hamptons said: "What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets."
- The judge compared the brothers to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, noting that their supporters described them as "gentlemen" while their victims testified that they were "sadistic, misogynistic sexual predators," CNN reports. "Either all of those women are in the wrong line of work because they should all be actresses, or they were telling the truth and they were raped and drugged. And I credit latter," Caproni said.
- None of the brothers testified during the first phase of the trial, but each spoke Tuesday before they were sentenced. They said some of their past behavior was regrettable but insisted that they never broke the law.
- Oren and Tal Alexander were once nicknamed real estate's "A Team" for their ultra high-end sales and celebrity clientele. After smashing sales records at industry powerhouse Douglas Elliman, the brothers started their own firm. Alon Alexander ran their family's private security company.
- The brothers projected an exclusive lifestyle of yachts, private jets, and waterfront mansions in Miami, but prosecutors said they began sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002, when they were in high school, and over time developed a pattern of drugging and raping women who they enticed to join them on luxury getaways. At least 70 women were raped or sexually assaulted by the men, prosecutors said in a court filing that called the brothers "serial rapists."
- Caproni has said she believes the brothers should not be incarcerated at the same prison because they were a bad influence on one another. The brothers' lawyers argue that they belong together, even behind bars.
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