Real Estate Agent Brothers Tal and Oren Alexander Are Arrested on Sex Trafficking Charges

Two of the most prominent ultraluxury real estate agents in the country and their brother have been arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, following civil allegations of sexual assault.

Brothers Tal and Oren Alexander, who co-founded luxury real estate firm Official, were arrested on Wednesday morning in Miami, along with Oren’s twin brother, Alon Alexander. The trio are charged with federal counts of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, and are expected to be extradited to New York to face the charges.

“The Alexander brothers allegedly conspired using their wealth and status to prey on innocent women, coercing them into engaging in sexual acts,” said FBI Assistant Director in Charge James E. Dennehy in a statement. “Predators forcefully coercing victims into sexual acts cannot and will not be tolerated.”

A superseding indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that the Alexander brothers repeatedly and violently sexually assaulted dozens of female victims over the course of more than a decade, in some cases surreptitiously incapacitating the women with drugs.

Prosecutors say the brothers used their wealth and prominence to carry out the alleged assaults, at times acting individually and in other cases carrying out the attacks together.

Isabelle Kirshner, an attorney for Tal and Oren, told Realtor.com® earlier on Wednesday that she had yet to see the charges, and offered no further comment.

The arrests follow multiple blockbuster civil lawsuits accusing the multimillionaire brothers of sexual assault, including one alleging that they took turns raping a woman in a Hamptons mansion.

The Alexander brothers have denied those allegations, and their lawyers say the claims in the lawsuits are without merit.

Star brothers faced shocking allegations in civil suits

Tal and Oren were star brokers at powerhouse agency Douglas Elliman before leaving in 2022 to found Official, which focuses on high-end properties in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, and Miami.

In March, two lawsuits were filed by women accusing 37-year-old Oren and his twin brother, Alon, of rape. The suits accused the twins of jointly sexually assaulting women in two separate instances.

In one of the suits, Kate Whiteman alleges that she was assaulted by the twins in 2012 at the Hamptons party mansion owned by millionaire banking heir and recording artist Sir Ivan Wilzig.

Whiteman claims that the twins took her to the $6 million castle-style mansion against her will, forcibly stripped her, and took her to a bedroom where she was “sexually assaulted, abused, raped, pinned, groped, harassed, battered, and fondled by defendants” Alon and Oren.

Wilzig was not accused of sexual misconduct, but the suit also names him as a defendant for alleged negligence.

In another suit, Rebecca Mandel alleges that in 2010, when she was about 18, Alon drugged her drink at a club in the Meatpacking District, and that he and Oren subsequently raped her in their nearby apartment.

A separate suit filed in June accused older brother Tal, 38, of sexually assaulting a woman in concert with Alon in 2012 in New York. The suit alleged that Oren was also present and watched.

All three brothers deny the allegations of sexual assault and have vowed to fight the lawsuits in court.