Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison after women speak of
being drugged and raped by them
[October 28, 2026]
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER
NEW YORK (AP) — Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy
lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday
to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an
“eternity of terror” and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful,
degenerate and monstrous.
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander
Brothers — stared blankly as U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni
announced their punishment, which was less than the life sentences that
federal prosecutors sought. Some of the 11 women who spoke during the
hearing wept in the Manhattan courtroom gallery.
“Your conduct was monstrous,” Caproni told the men, equating them to Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as she reconciled their March sex trafficking
conviction with their claims that being fathers and husbands has changed
them from the partying, womanizing ways of their youth.
“It’s hard for me to believe the defendants changed their spots just
like that,” the judge said. She added, “it strains credulity that
marriage would change them from sexual predators to model gentlemen.”
Many of the women in the packed courtroom appeared disappointed with the
sentences, which will spring the Alexanders from prison around the age
most Americans are settling into retirement.
The brothers, jailed without bail since their 2024 arrests, must also
each pay at least $300,000 in fines. Oren Alexander was ordered to pay
another $50,000 for producing child sexual abuse material by recording a
video that prosecutors said showed him raping a 17-year-old girl.
While the brothers — twins Oren and Alon, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40 —
expressed regret for how they treated and regarded women, they all
denied drugging and raping anyone.
“That’s entirely a lie and you all know it,” Caproni told them, adding
that she hoped they someday feel “deeply ashamed of themselves.”
For some of the women who spoke in court, no length of time will repair
the damage they said was done to them. Choking up, 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.
The brothers speak for themselves
None of the brothers testified at their trial, but each spoke before
they were sentenced.
Oren Alexander said he and his brothers came of age at the height of
hookup culture and Howard Stern’s hypersexualized radio show. Looking
back as a father, he said he regrets many of the things he said about
women at that time. However, he insisted that they never broke the law.
“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We never
trafficked anyone for sex and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” Oren
Alexander said, reading from prepared remarks.
Choking up, Tal Alexander asked Caproni to “understand how difficult it
is to stand here” and express “genuine regret about something I did not
do.”
“Over the last two years I’ve lost everything I loved, everything I
worked for,” Tal Alexander said. “I feel like an atomic bomb has been
dropped on my life and destroyed everything in its wake.”
Alon Alexander said he too has evolved and acknowledged that having a
wife and daughter does not excuse messages he wrote that degraded women
or times when he bragged to others about sex.
“The party life you heard about and saw in the courtroom ended long
before the FBI came knocking,” Alon Alexander said. “Six years before my
arrest, I was building a different life.”
All three brothers stressed their Jewish faith. Oren Alexander, wearing
a yarmulke, said that even with the minimum 15-year sentence the defense
sought, he'd miss his son's bar mitzvah.
They asked Caproni to assign them to the same prison. Tal Alexander said
doing so would ease the burden on their parents, both age 70, who hope
to visit them every weekend.
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This photo provided by the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation
Department shows Alon Alexander, left, and Oren Alexander, both of
whom have been charged with sex trafficking. (Miami-Dade Corrections
and Rehabilitation Department via AP, File)
The judge said she'll leave that decision to the federal Bureau of
Prisons. She agreed to recommend that they be locked up near Miami,
where they grew up and have relatives, but suggested that if it were
up to her, they'd be sent to different lockups.
“I believe that they are and will continue to be bad influences on
each other,” Caproni said.
Victims describe a lasting dread
The accusers who spoke in court — and another whose statement was
read by a prosecutor — were among at least 70 women who prosecutors
say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the last two
decades in posh locales including the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado.
Lindsey Acree, an artist and gallery owner, testified that she was
raped by Tal Alexander and another man at a Hamptons home in 2011
after taking a drink that she said left her feeling paralyzed.
Scrapping her prepared remarks, she told Caproni that a life
sentence wouldn’t begin to do justice for the women whose lives were
irreparably harmed.
“This has wasted my damn time. It’s wasted your time. It’s wasted
everyone in this room’s time,” Acree told the judge. Turning to the
brothers, she said: “For why? For you. Because you did some really
messed up stuff.”
“The biggest thing is why? Why did you do this?” Acree asked. “I
don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred toward
women.”
Another woman who testified that Tal Alexander raped her in August
2014 said she carried “a quiet funeral in me for the person I might
have become had this not happened to me.”
“Every second that Tal raped me in that shower felt like an eternity
of terror,” said the woman, who used a pseudonym.
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.”
Stars of the New York real estate scene
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, they
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.
In remarks before the sentence was announced, Assistant U.S.
Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa told the judge that the brothers’
“callousness, carelessness, cruelty” warranted a life prison term,
especially since all their victims would be serving life sentences
of pain.
“Women overcame all the forces telling them this was their fault,
they should stay quiet, that no one would believe them,” Espinosa
said. “Despite that pain, so many came forward and 11 women
testified at trial.”
Addressing Caproni, Lexi Zettle said Tal Alexander was once “a
prince in my eyes” who said “you’re my girl” and dangled “fairytale”
romance before her until he started pressuring her to sleep with men
he did business with.
“They treated me like a rag doll, like I was this disposable thing,”
Zettle said. The Alexander brothers, she said, “are not the A Team
and they are not above the law.”
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