‘Monstrous:’ Alexander brothers get 30 years each in sex trafficking case

New York

In a packed federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the three Alexander brothers, donning tan jail uniforms, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking women and committing other federal sex crimes for more than a decade.

Dozens of women have come forward in lawsuits and to law enforcement since early 2024 with rape allegations in Miami Beach, New York City and the Hamptons — accusations that began when the men were in high school in Miami in the early 2000s. Many believed they had been drugged.

“I know what it’s like to be reduced to nothing by these people,” Katie Moore, who testified during their federal trial under this pseudonym, told the courtroom on Tuesday. “Our humanity meant nothing, but we are not disposable, and they are not untouchable.”

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, presiding over the seven-hour hearing, sentenced twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 39, and their older brother, Tal Alexander, 40, to 30 years each in prison. They could have been sentenced to life on the sex trafficking conspiracy charge; the government asked for life.

Caproni said while their conduct was “shameful and degenerate,” she felt life sentences were “Draconian,” and she’s never given a life sentence that wasn’t the minimum required. She said she would not describe them as “monsters,” because she believes everyone has the ability to change, but said that their “conduct was monstrous.”

Tal and Oren were among the nation’s top real estate brokers selling multi-million dollar homes in Miami and New York. Alon previously worked for his family’s security company. In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.

The three brothers spoke directly to the judge for the first time in court. All three continued to assert their innocence.

“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone,” Oren told the judge.

The 12 women who shared their stories on Tuesday morning, seated with family, friends and other survivors, took up five rows. Eleven spoke directly to the court, one’s statement was read by U.S. Assistant Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa. Most said their lives had been irreversibly impacted, they were traumatized and spent years in therapy.

The brothers never turned around to look at them while they delivered their statements. Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal, later said the men had been advised not to by their attorneys.

“What Tal Alexander did to me was a life sentence I never asked for,” Maya Miller, one of the women in the federal trial, said in court Tuesday.

‘I sometimes behaved in ways that I’m not proud of’

Attorneys for the brothers said they plan to appeal the sentence. They spoke about the brothers’ characters and how they will miss the majority of their children’s childhood, even with the minimum sentence.

Oren told the judge that he had said and did things he was “deeply ashamed of.” Tal choked up while talking about the possibility of life in prison for something he “didn’t do.” He asked the judge to “please have mercy.”

“I sometimes behaved in ways that I’m not proud of, your Honor,” Tal said. “I can see how my behavior could hurt someone else’s feelings.”

Alon became emotional while talking about his daughters and spoke of how his life changed after meeting his wife. “I’m not a perfect man,” Alon said, “but I am innocent of these charges.”

Both Caprioni and Espinosa said that the brothers have yet to express any remorse for their crimes. Espinosa said they were “unmoved by the path of suffering they left behind.”

Juda Engelmayer, a public relations consultant for the brothers who previously represented Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, said the sentence was “extraordinarily severe” and that the family was “devastated.”

“This case is far from over,” Engelmayer said in an emailed statement to the Herald. “Serious questions remain about the fairness of the proceedings, and the brothers will continue fighting to ensure their convictions receive a full and fair review.”

The men’s parents, who have been accused in a lawsuit of enabling sex trafficking, were not present in the courtroom. Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal, said that the brothers asked them and their wives not to attend.

The brothers were also fined $50,000 per conviction, with additional court fees — $300,000 for each of the twins, $350,000 for Tal. Oren was also fined $50,000 for producing child pornography. Restitution for the victims has yet to be decided, but the government has argued that they should be compensated for years of therapy, loss of income, and other related losses.

Since their arrests, the brothers have been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, notorious for violent conditions and holding high profile individuals such as rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. They were held without bail.

The twins still face state rape charges in Miami, and their trial has been delayed as prosecutors awaited the federal case sentencing in Manhattan. Oren is charged with two rape cases, including one that stems from an alleged assault at Alon’s Miami Beach condo on New Year’s Eve in 2016. Alon is also charged in that alleged incident. Tal has not been charged in the state cases.

Assistant State Attorney Natalie Snyder recently said she was ready to file the paperwork to request their transfers for trial as soon as they were sentenced. A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office declined to comment further on Tuesday.

More than 70 women

In 2024, a woman named Kate Whiteman filed a civil lawsuit against the twins, alleging they raped her in 2012. After her lawsuit was reported in the Real Deal, dozens more women also accused the men in over 30 civil, state and federal cases of systematic rape and sex trafficking.

READ MORE: Sordid details emerge about Alexander brothers’ alleged rapes. Parties in Hamptons, Mexico

More than 70 women came forward, federal prosecutors wrote in a recent filing, “with harrowing accounts of assault.” During their five-week trial earlier this year, 11 women testified that they were sexually assaulted or raped by at least one of the brothers from 2009 to 2021.

They said the men used their wealth, and social status to entice young women to parties in mansions and on yachts. Some women said the men drugged them; Amelia Rosen was 17, and did not know she was raped until investigators showed her a video Oren made of the assault.

“They had a playbook,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones said in March, after the men were found guilty.

A Miami Herald investigation found a pattern of drugging, raping, and videotaping their abuse of girls began decades earlier – when the brothers were as young as 15 and still in high school in Miami.

READ MORE: Alexander brothers’ abuse began in high school, women, feds say. No one stopped them

The three brothers grew up in Miami and graduated from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School near Aventura. Tal graduated in 2004; the twins in 2005.

In interviews, six women told the Herald they were raped or assaulted by one or more of the brothers between 2002 and 2004. One woman went to police, but the brothers appear to have faced no consequences. The brothers, through their spokesmen, denied the allegations.

Two minors were victims

On March 9, a 12-person jury found the brothers guilty on all 10 counts, some of which applied to multiple brothers, and some were individual charges.

All three of the brothers were convicted on Count 1, the main sex-trafficking conspiracy charge, which involved multiple women and girls.

For Count 2, Tal was convicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion of Lindsey Acree, who said she was raped by Tal and another man in the Hamptons in 2011.

All three brothers were convicted of Count 3 and Count 4, involving sex trafficking of Bela Koval and inducing her to travel for unlawful sexual activity.

Alon and Tal were convicted for sex trafficking a minor – a woman using the pseudonym Isa Brooks, who said she was raped in the Hamptons by Alon, Tal and some of their friends when she was 16 and a senior in high school.

“How is it that my life felt over before it began?” Brooks said in a statement she read to the courtroom Tuesday. She said it took 10 years before she had a boyfriend.

“The old me had died,” she said. “I grew deeply distrustful.”

Tal was convicted on two more counts involving sex trafficking and inducing Maya Miller to travel for unlawful sexual activity.

Twins Alon and Oren were convicted of aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse of an incapacitated Rhonda Stone while on the 2012 Groove Cruise from Miami to the Bahamas.

Finally, for the sexual exploitation of minor Amelia Rosen, who said she was drugged and raped by Oren and a friend of his in Manhattan in 2009 when Rosen was 17, Oren was convicted.

Oren filmed the assault while Rosen lay limp on his bed, and emailed the video to the friend. Investigators later found it in a hard drive at Tal’s apartment, and said that Rosen didn’t know what had happened to her until investigators found the video and identified her. Prosecutors played parts of the video for the jury during trial.

Kate Whiteman, the woman who first filed a lawsuit against the men, died in late 2025 at age 45 in Australia. A representative for the Coroner’s Court of New South Wales said that her death was not suspicious, and declined to share further details out of respect for her family.

During her statement on Tuesday, Brooks spoke about Whiteman, and the impact of her lawsuit.

“I wish she could see what her bravery made possible,” she said.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated who filmed Amelia Rosen’s assault. Oren filmed it.

This story was originally published October 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM.