People with great wealth have access to many things that ordinary people cannot. But as the Alexander brothers, once millionaire real estate rock stars, are discovering, there is a limit to what wealth can do.
A federal judge has rejected an escalating bid to free Miami-born brothers Oren, Tal and Aron, while the Alexanders face multiple sex trafficking charges.
Their parents, Shlomo and Orli Alexander, who are self-imposed exiles from Israel, said this week they would pay “any amount” of bail up to $1 billion to get their sons out of prison.
Pictures of them being led into court wearing suicide vests and prison jumpsuits are a far cry from them. rub elbow something like Liam Gallagher, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan He once boasted about his private jet trips to luxury resorts on social media.
Twins Oren and Tal celebrate their 28th birthday decadent bash In a $50 million townhouse on the Upper East Side. A nearly naked woman was on display for the VIP guests, who took turns having hot wax dripped onto her body.
The Alexander brothers are currently believed to be traveling on a Department of Corrections bus from Miami to New York, where they will likely await their day in court at Brooklyn's notorious Metropolitan Detention Center.
“This was the worst trip of their lives,” a Miami source told the Post. “It's the scariest thing ever.”
Their parents offered to serve them private imprisonment in another attempt to keep them out of jail. They proposed locking up the brothers in a two-bedroom apartment on the eighth floor of a Miami building, which the parents insisted was neither waterfront nor upscale.
It was promised that there would be guards on duty 24 hours a day, and that an alarm system would be installed to prevent anyone from leaving the hut. Their preferred provider would likely be Kent Security, a family business run by Orley and his brother Gil Newman, of which Aron, 37, is vice president.
Meanwhile, Oren and Tal, 37 and 38 years old respectively, have made their name and fortune in luxury real estate, making plenty of juicy headlines along the way.
But one source wasn't fooled by their good looks and characterized them to the Post as “very Mafia… very bad news.”
All three were charged with drugging and raping dozens of women. According to civil and criminal charges filed against them, they sometimes participated in perverted and violent acts together. They all pleaded not guilty.
“They deserve bail. They are innocent until proven guilty,” said Joel Danello, one of the attorneys representing Oren and Aron Alexander.
“The reason they can’t get bond money from the federal government is because [woke] In the times we live in, they are treated unfairly. ”
Tal is being independently represented by another attorney. He did not respond to requests for comment.
Evan Torgan, who is representing the three women in the civil suit against Oren and Aron (other lawyers are handling the civil suit against Tal), takes a different view.
“The court found them to be a danger to the community,” he told the Post. “The women are accusing him of drugging and raping them.”
Federal Judge Eduardo Sanchez characterized them as flight risks, saying, “The fact that they all face these charges is sufficient motive for flight.”
Prosecutors allege that more than 40 women were “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 was recovered by New York federal prosecutors during a raid on Tal Alexander's Manhattan apartment in December.
Prosecutors argued this week that the video shows the brothers “physically manipulating the woman's body while clearly 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 United States. The Nepo babies began their real estate careers in 2012 by selling their father's 10-bedroom spread in a so-called billionaire banker in Miami for $47 million. This made them famous and from there they started actively pursuing a career in the real estate industry. real estate food chain
In 2019, they sold their penthouse at 220 South Central Park to hedge fund mogul Ken Griffin for a record $238 million.
He was known in the industry for his sharp elbows. “They were bullies and very aggressive,” said the New York-based real estate agent. “They were a force of nature and everyone avoided them.”
Regarding their alleged sexual proclivities, a Manhattan broker said, “This stuff has been going on forever. But the brothers have intimidated people so much that people can't say anything. They have a lot of power. “
When the three brothers were in high school, a source in the Miami nightlife scene told the Post: It was known that they liked to party and take advantage of girls. ”
According to new york magazineLocal girls were warned not to mix with their brothers and not to drink water from open containers when their brothers were present.
Sources familiar with the group at the time claim the act was incited by a vehicle parked in front of their childhood home in Miami's upscale Bal Harbor neighborhood.
“It was like a tour bus for the brothers to have sex parties,” a source told the Post. “Everyone called it the 'sex bus.' It was a bus to take girls.”
Even those in the Alexanders' camp claim the brothers were out of control.
“Were they total assholes? Yes,” he told the Post. “Did they have sex with the girls and then ignore them? One hundred percent. Did they hurt people's feelings? Yeah. Did they drug anyone? No, the women slept together How many women did the three brothers sleep with? The over/under was 3,000.
At a hearing last week in New York, a lawyer said Oren and Aron passed polygraph tests and answered in the negative when asked if they had sex with a drugged woman. The judge rejected this argument for freedom as “nonsense.”
She also showed little sympathy for claims that the Alexander brothers had suppressed their sexual desires since their marriage.
Aron married Shani Zigron in May 2020 and they have two children. Oren is married to a model camilla hansen In April 2023, Tal married Ariel Kogut in October of the same year. In December, Oren begged a judge to release him because his wife is pregnant and due soon.
Said a Miami nightlife: “Wives knew who they were marrying, but I felt bad about it. [the brothers’] children. They will never see their father outside the prison visiting room. ”
However, only if you are convicted of a crime. There's no doubt that the Alexander family, known for their aggressiveness and deal-making strength, has funneled vast amounts of wealth into their brother's legal team, which gives us a little more insight into what exactly that wealth can do. It might be.
