{"id":654,"date":"2026-05-19T10:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:01:22","slug":"alexander-brothers-abuse-began-in-high-school-women-feds-say-no-one-stopped-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"Alexander brothers\u2019 abuse began in high school, women, feds say. No one stopped them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The following Monday, police came to her house to collect her clothes as evidence. The girl, a high school freshman, pulled out a yearbook and pointed to eight boys who were at the party, according to the North Miami Beach police report.<\/p>\n

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That 2003 report is partially redacted, but shows two of those names: recently convicted sex offenders Oren and Alon Alexander.<\/p>\n

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The twins and their older brother Tal Alexander were convicted in March of multiple federal sex<\/u> crimes, including sex trafficking. But a Miami Herald investigation found their pattern of drugging, raping, and videotaping their abuse of girls began decades earlier \u2013 when they were as young as 15 and still in high school.<\/p>\n

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Six women told the Herald they were raped or assaulted by one or more of the brothers between 2002 and 2004, while the three brothers were attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School near Aventura. One spoke to police, and despite her accusations, police did not interview all the boys, and the school appears to have taken no disciplinary action.<\/p>\n

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The women said the assaults were rampant, and occurred at teen hangouts devoid of parental supervision, at the homes of the Alexander brothers or their friends. Half of the women spoke to the FBI in 2024 about what happened to them when they were younger.<\/p>\n

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The women were students at Krop, a large Miami-Dade public high school, or nearby Miami Country Day School, a private school. One was in eighth grade when a group of boys, including Tal, \u201cdragged\u201d her into a bedroom, she said. She believes she was drugged.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt just seems like the adults completely f\u2014— abdicated their responsibility,\u201d that woman told the Herald.<\/p>\n

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In the 2003 report, which notes that Krop\u2019s principal was informed after a school resource officer called law enforcement, police did not interview the brothers, and the State Attorney\u2019s Office declined to press charges.<\/p>\n

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The brothers, who are imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting sentencing, and their parents declined requests to be interviewed for this article through their representatives. Their lawyers referred reporters\u2019 questions to Juda Engelmayer, a public relations consultant who has previously represented Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein and rapper Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs as they faced widespread accusations of sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

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He said the brothers each deny any allegation of non-consensual conduct.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe allegations you reference are decades old, unproven, and in many cases were never raised at the time, investigated to conclusion, or resulted in any charges,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey have never been found by any court or legal authority to have engaged in wrongdoing from that period,\u201d he added. [Read Engelmayer\u2019s full statement]<\/u><\/p>\n

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Except for the girl who spoke to police, none of the five other women who spoke to the Herald reported what happened to law enforcement at the time \u2013 but their stories echo a pattern described in the 2003 police report, and the weekslong sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan that ended with guilty verdicts on all 10 counts.<\/p>\n

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Marci Hamilton, the founder of CHILD USA, a nonprofit advocating for children rights, read the 2003 police report, and said, \u201cThe real tragedy is that law enforcement, in high school, didn\u2019t go after these boys with a hammer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey were just given permission to keep going,\u201d she said, \u201ceven though law enforcement knew about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A federal prosecutor in the New York case said the government spoke to almost 70 women, nearly all with accusations of drugging and raping from different stages of the men\u2019s lives. In a December 2024 letter<\/u> to the New York judges in the sex-trafficking case, the prosecutors also said multiple women told them they were raped in high school, some by a group of boys.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvidence from the investigation, including multiple victim and witness accounts, shows that the Alexander Brothers began engaging in acts of sexual violence, including gang rapes, while still in high school in Miami, Florida,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

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Federal prosecutors tried to include the testimonies of two women assaulted in high school \u2013 identified in court records as Victim 27 and Victim 28 \u2013 but ultimately neither were allowed to testify as the trial was restricted to the years after 2008.<\/p>\n

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The three brothers would go on to become well known in the wealthy real estate and social circles of Miami and New York. Tal and Oren sold multimillion-dollar homes to celebrities as real estate agents for Douglas Elliman, an A-list firm specializing in luxury properties. Alongside Alon, who worked for his family\u2019s security firm, they partied around the world.<\/p>\n

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The Miami Herald interviewed nearly three dozen people who knew the Alexander brothers at Krop or who worked at the school. This included former classmates, school staff, alleged victims and others who knew them at the time. Most asked for anonymity, afraid of retaliation.<\/p>\n

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Tal, now 39, graduated from Krop in 2004. Oren and Alon, now 38, graduated in 2005.<\/p>\n

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One man who knew Tal through tennis during Tal\u2019s teenage years said Tal told him he had raped a younger girl with a pool stick.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe thought it was something that was pretty cool. He wasn\u2019t embarrassed about it or felt bad about it,\u201d said the man, who asked for anonymity due to fear of retaliation. \u201cHe felt like he had accomplished something.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The brothers and their friends had a vulgar metaphor for gang raping girls, which alleged victims said they heard frequently: \u201crunning a train.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For his senior yearbook, Oren was asked about his most \u201cmemorable moment\u201d in high school. Despite how well known the train metaphor was, his response was published.<\/p>\n

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\u201cRiding my first \u2018choo-choo\u2019 train.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018I wish I cared more about myself\u2019<\/h2>\n

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The girl who spoke to police was in her freshman year at Krop. She kept her hair long, straight, and parted down the middle. Her parents were divorced, and she was living with her dad in Miami.<\/p>\n

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One Friday evening, she went to a classmate\u2019s house for what she thought was a party, and saw a group of boys there \u2013 but no girls. She took Xanax earlier that day, and smoked weed. When she arrived, she thought they passed around alcohol.<\/p>\n

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She remembered having oral sex with her crush. Other boys walked in on them, and she left the room.<\/p>\n

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From there, it\u2019s all a blur. Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication, mixed with alcohol is a dangerous combination that can cause someone to lose consciousness.<\/p>\n

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She remembers being on a bed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s like flashes, of like, just guys, a different guy. I\u2019ll open up my eyes and like, there\u2019s a guy there, having sex with me, and then, like, I black out,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s how my memories are.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The next thing she remembers is being in a bathtub, where she thinks the boys were trying to hide her. Her father and cousin had come looking for her, and were screaming outside. She could hear her cousin\u2019s voice through the door.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere the f\u2014 is my daughter?\u201d her father yelled, according to the police report.<\/p>\n

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She doesn\u2019t know how she got out of the house. She woke up at Aventura Hospital, where her father had taken her for a drug test.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just remember laying in a hospital bed and my dad telling me that I have no underwear on,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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To police in 2003, she described various recollections of having sex that night. With one boy, she told police she \u201cdoes not recall if she wanted to.\u201d Two boys later came into the room, and she didn\u2019t know if she had sex with them.<\/p>\n

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She recently told the Herald that everything after the oral sex with her crush was not consensual, and that she believed all the boys except one \u2013 who she didn\u2019t think would have done that \u2013 had raped her. Friends told her after that they heard the boys ran a \u201ctrain\u201d on her, she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe rumor was that she had slept with seven guys,\u201d the police report reads.<\/p>\n

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On the following Monday, someone handed her the purse she left at the house on Friday. Opening it, she realized all her money \u2013 about $75 \u2013 was gone.<\/p>\n

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She broke down in the school hallway, screaming and crying so hard that a security guard came over and told her friends to bring her to the guidance counselor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor some reason, that was, like, the triggering point, and I just lost it,\u201d she told the Herald.<\/p>\n

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She spent the rest of the day recounting what she remembered \u2013 to the counselor, to the school resource officer, and then to two detectives.<\/p>\n

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A North Miami Beach police officer came to the school after being summoned by the school resource officer, and the girl got into the patrol car. The officer took her to the second floor-conference room of the police station, where she remembered \u201ctwo male officers\u201d interviewing her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember feeling, like, scared and nervous and not comfortable. I mean, I don\u2019t think any 14-year-old girl would be comfortable in that position, and then having to recount the events,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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She worried she would lose all her friends by getting popular boys in trouble. She worried about telling them she had taken Xanax, and didn\u2019t want any problems with her parents, she said.<\/p>\n

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Police wrote in the arrest report that she \u201cdoes not remember ever having a struggle, being forced, or saying no to any of the males.\u201d<\/p>\n

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They ended the interview by testing whether she knew the difference between a truth or a lie. An officer pointed to a white board in the department, and asked if it would be a truth or a lie to say the board was green. She said it would be a lie.<\/p>\n

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Is it \u201cgood or bad to lie?\u201d the officer asked her, according to the police report.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBad,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n

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Over the next two and a half weeks, the police report indicates detectives interviewed four of the eight boys listed as suspects, three friends of the girl, her dad, her mom and the guidance counselor. The police report shows three boys said they had sex with her, but thought it was consensual.<\/p>\n

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George Nu\u00f1ez, who was principal of Krop at the time and is now the chief of staff for Miami-Dade School Board member Monica Colucci, didn\u2019t respond to multiple interview requests from the Herald. He declined to talk to a reporter at a recent School Board committee meeting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t answer questions,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez said, citing a federal law that protects student records, before the reporter could ask any questions.<\/p>\n

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The day after detectives interviewed the girl \u2013 and four days after her alleged assaults \u2013 she went to the Roxcy Bolton Rape Treatment Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. It\u2019s unclear what resulted from the hospital visit.<\/p>\n

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Today, she is 37, married and living in Key West, where she works as a professional organizer for homeowners.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLooking back, I wish I didn\u2019t care about other people. I wish I cared more about myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She left Krop and Miami after her freshman year.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Sexually battered by all the subjects\u2019<\/h2>\n

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When first asked about the 2003 police report, Engelmayer, the brothers\u2019 public relations representative, said the brothers were not \u201cultimately identified as a suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cA partially unredacted document reflecting unverified allegations does not change the underlying record, no Alexander brother was identified as a suspect or interviewed, and there were no contemporaneous complaints involving them,\u201d Engelmayer said.<\/p>\n

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The twins\u2019 names are mentioned in several pages of the police report, including on the \u201cIncident Report Suspect List\u201d as \u201cUNKNOWN, ALON UNKNOWN\u201d and \u201cUNKNOWN, ARIN UNKNOWN.\u201d When the girl said she could point to \u201csome of the alleged offenders\u201d in the yearbook, both of their names are spelled correctly in the report.<\/p>\n

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In the narrative of the report \u2013 which gives redacted summaries of the interviews \u2013 Oren and Alon don\u2019t appear to have been explicitly mentioned as having sex with her.<\/p>\n

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Assistant State Attorney Barty Quinnelly closed out the case on May 28, 2003 \u2013 the same day she opened it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAccording to the victim, she was then sexually battered by all the subjects,\u201d Quinnelly wrote in the closeout memo. \u201cMost of the subjects were interviewed. The ones that were interviewed admitted to having sexual relations with the victim but said it was consensual.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She listed among her reasons for closing the case: inconsistent and\/or no physical evidence; inconsistent statements made by the victim; contradicting and\/or no corroborating witnesses; and the fact that the boys thought it was consensual.<\/p>\n

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Quinnelly also pointed to a law in Florida that \u2013 while rarely applied this way \u2013 could mean the victim would be charged as well. Under Florida statutes, all sexual activity involving someone age 12 to 15 is criminalized as sexual battery, regardless of consent.<\/p>\n

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Quinnelly died in 2017. It\u2019s unclear what inconsistencies she was referring to \u2013 and what resulted from the police taking the girl\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n

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Adriana Alcalde, a former Broward State Attorney sex crimes prosecutor who reviewed the police report and Quinnelly\u2019s closeout memo, said it was evident that the victim was \u201cheavily intoxicated and not in any position to consent to sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She said it probably wouldn\u2019t be an easy case to prove, but it could have gone forward.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven if they were both 15, if she was too intoxicated to give consent, it\u2019s rape,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The state attorney at the time, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, still runs the office today. In December 2024, she announced charges against the twins in two state cases stemming from Miami Beach alleged rapes in 2016 and 2017 \u2013 the same day the federal government arrested all three brothers. Oren is charged in both state cases and Alon is a co-defendant in one.<\/p>\n

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Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the state attorney\u2019s office, said \u201clegal problems inherent in the case,\u201d noted by Quinnelly, led to her decision in 2003.<\/p>\n

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\u201cProsecutorial ethics require that an ASA [assistant state attorney] must believe that they have sufficient evidence to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt in order to file a criminal charge,\u201d Griffith said in a statement to the Herald.<\/p>\n

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Juan Pinillos, the current North Miami Beach Police chief, said the department could not answer specific questions \u2013 like why not all the boys were interviewed \u2013 because the lead detective in the case had retired, and so much time had passed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile we cannot speak to the specific reasoning behind individual investigative steps in this case, we are confident that the protocols, procedures, and oversight in place at the time were followed in good faith,\u201d Pinillos wrote in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Why stop if you never got caught?\u2019<\/h2>\n

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The brothers grew up in a waterfront mansion in Bal Harbour. Their parents, Orly and Shlomo Alexander, along with Orly\u2019s brother, started a security firm, Kent Security Services.<\/p>\n

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As children, they attended Scheck Hillel Community School, a private Jewish day school near North Miami Beach, and then Highland Oaks Middle School near Aventura. By the end of his freshman year, in spring 2001, Tal was already playing tennis for Krop. The twins began high school that fall.<\/p>\n

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The same year, Abigail Hofeldt left her all-girls school in New York for Miami Country Day. She heard a story from her new classmates about a group of boys who had raped a girl after giving her Bacardi 151 \u2013 rum with an alcohol content of 75.5% that Bacard\u00ed later discontinued.<\/p>\n

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Around fall 2022, during her sophomore year, she went to a party that was about to be broken up by police when she arrived. A boy there drove her, a friend and other boys to a house, claiming there was an \u201cafter party,\u201d she said. There, someone handed her a bottle of Bacardi 151.<\/p>\n

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Remembering the warning from her classmates, she pretended to drink it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was prepared the minute I saw that bottle,\u201d she told the Herald.<\/p>\n

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The boys pushed her into a room, locked the door, pinned her down on a bed, and tried to take off her pants, she said. All three brothers were in the house.<\/p>\n

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Tal was on top of her, humping her over her clothes, she said. Out the window, two boys stood with a camcorder.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey were really violent and like, pushing me, and like, tried to rape me,\u201d Hofeldt remembers later telling her friend at a sleepover.<\/p>\n

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She unclasped the necklace that Tal was wearing and took it \u201cas proof,\u201d she said. As she tried to leave, one of the twins knocked her over, she said. She managed to stick her foot in the door as a boy opened it, and demanded someone drive her home.<\/p>\n

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Her friend refused to go to the police with her because she didn\u2019t want to get in trouble for sneaking out to a party, said Hofeldt, who didn\u2019t want to go alone. Her friend declined to speak with the Herald. But after news broke of the brothers\u2019 arrest in Miami Beach in 2024, she sent Hofeldt an email, which the Herald reviewed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember the night, I\u2019m so sorry I couldn\u2019t save you, they just locked you in the room and I was helpless and just kept saying to leave you alone,\u201d the friend wrote.<\/p>\n

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Hofeldt gave the necklace, a thin gold chain with a gold die, to a different friend for safekeeping.<\/p>\n

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That friend, who asked to only be identified by his first name, Gavin, for fear of retaliation, told the Herald that Hofeldt confided in him about the assault just days after it happened. He recounted the details she described \u2013 how they held her down, that she said there was a camcorder. He still has the die.<\/p>\n

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He also said he saw \u201clittle circular bruises\u201d on her arms and legs.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey looked like, you know, someone that had been, either restrained or held down, almost like if you had been tied,\u201d Gavin told the Herald.<\/p>\n

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Several months later, a boy pretending to be Holfeldt\u2019s crush texted her to hang out. Instead, multiple boys, including Alon, showed up at her home in the middle of the night. When she opened the door, they came into her house, and masturbated in front of her, she said.<\/p>\n

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John Davies, the Miami Country Day principal at the time, told the Herald he did not recall hearing about the brothers, and had \u201cno idea\u201d who they were until they were arrested.<\/p>\n

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Four of the six women who spoke to the Herald described a group of boys involved in their assault or rape. Half of the six women left the two schools afterward.<\/p>\n

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One said that, as a 13-year-old eighth grader at Country Day, she was at a classmate\u2019s house when a group of boys, including Tal, assaulted her. It was around the same time as Hofeldt\u2019s alleged assault, fall 2002.<\/p>\n

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She and her friends frequently hung out at the brothers\u2019 friends\u2019 houses. One day, someone handed her a drink, and she became \u201cextremely incapacitated,\u201d no longer able to walk or even lift her head.<\/p>\n

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Like the girl who would later report a rape to police, she remembers only flashes of a group of boys around her. She remembers Tal being part of the group.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey dragged me back to this bedroom and, like put me on the bed, kind of stripped off my clothes from the waist down, and started fondling me, fingering me. I was penetrated,\u201d she told the Herald. \u201cI remember there being a little red light from like a camcorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember being shoved into a closet at a certain point, and then my friend came and got me, and she helped me out of the house,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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She threw up in the driveway.<\/p>\n

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She said around the same time, she was pulled into the guidance counselor\u2019s office because of sexual harassment and rumors circulating about her. She didn\u2019t share what had happened with Tal. Her parents sent her to a different school.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere was no one in my life I felt like I could talk to about any of this,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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She described routine sexual harassment at school, and said many of the girls had similar stories.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMost of the boys that we went to school with behaved like this. It was a lot of like, yeah, like, gang rapey type stuff, lots of like, you know, running trains. That\u2019s what they used to call it, you know, where, like, they just have sex with you one after another,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd I swear to God, like we just thought that this was what sexuality was. That was just kind of the culture of Miami at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A fourth woman said she would often hang out at the Alexanders\u2019 home in Bal Harbour during her freshman year, between 2002 and 2003. She had consensual relations with Alon, but said frequently the line of consent would blur or be crossed into rape. She said that all three raped her, and she stopped hanging out with them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey would just get you very drunk and then to the point that you can\u2019t, like, get away,\u201d she told the Herald, speaking on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEssentially, even if you said no, like, it would continue,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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She didn\u2019t tell anyone, blaming herself for hanging out with them. She said she was \u201cpretty shocked\u201d to see they had continued with the same behavior. Then she paused.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI guess that wouldn\u2019t surprise me,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy stop if you never got caught?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018I remember feeling my body go away\u2019<\/h2>\n

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Engelmayer said the men\u2019s parents, Shlomo and Orly Alexander, did not receive complaints about their sons in high school and had no any knowledge of the alleged rapes. They deny assertions that any of the rapes happened at their family home in Bal Harbour.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Alexanders categorically reject any suggestion that girls were \u2018lured,\u2019 trapped, or systematically preyed upon,\u201d Engelmayer wrote. \u201cThese retrospective allegations are being framed today in a dramatically different light than they were understood by participants and peers at the time, including by individuals who continued social relationships and friendships afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is also important to avoid rewriting ordinary high school social behavior from 25 years ago into something more sinister without careful scrutiny, corroboration, and fairness to everyone involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Two other women told the Herald that Tal assaulted them while in high school.<\/p>\n

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One said she was a 14-year-old freshman at Krop. He handed her a drink while she was hanging out with a group of people at his parents\u2019 home in Bal Harbour around late 2002 or early 2003. She said she believes she was drugged.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remember walking there, as I\u2019m walking there, I\u2019m feeling my body go away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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She could barely stand, she said. He put his arm around her shoulders and led her into a bathroom. A camcorder was propped up on the sink, and he forced his penis in her mouth. She remembers running out of the house barefoot and waking up at a friend\u2019s house, but not how she got there.<\/p>\n

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She didn\u2019t tell anyone, but her behavior changed \u2013 she quit activities she loved, stopped going to classes and seeing friends \u2013 and her mother pulled her out of the school.<\/p>\n

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In 2004, Melissa, the other woman, woke up in the back of a car with no pants and her underwear around her ankles. Then a junior at Krop, she was in the same grade as the twins.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat\u2019s going on? What\u2019s happening to me?\u201d she yelled.<\/p>\n

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She had gone to a party with her friend and that friend\u2019s boyfriend, she told the Herald. She had one drink and blacked out, and believes she was drugged.<\/p>\n

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She did not know who assaulted her, nor does she remember the assault. Her boyfriend at the time confronted boys who attended the party, she said. They told him Tal went upstairs with her.<\/p>\n

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The friend\u2019s boyfriend told the Herald that he remembered Melissa making accusations against Tal at the time.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Everyone knew\u2019<\/h2>\n

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Amanda G. Altman, the CEO of Kristi House, a Miami child advocacy center, said she was \u201cdisgusted\u201d to hear these stories.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou just have to believe that there were people who knew and didn\u2019t do anything for it to have been this prevalent,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Videos circulated the schools, several Krop, Country Day alumni and some of the alleged victims said. One woman told the Herald she saw a sex video of her friend uploaded to Kazaa.com or LimeWire, online file sharing platforms. Hofeldt said she once saw the brothers watching sex videos outside a party on screens installed in their car, and believed the videos were of her peers because they looked \u201chomemade.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At Krop, in the 2004-2005 school year, a video of a girl having oral sex was played on a screen in front of her classmates in place of morning announcements.<\/p>\n

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The Herald confirmed the incident with multiple sources, including a classmate who remembered seeing it, and the girl afterward in tears. The brothers do not appear to have been involved in that incident.<\/p>\n

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Enid Weisman, who was the inaugural principal at Krop from 1998 to 2001, told the Herald that she was \u201cstunned\u201d by the news of the brothers\u2019 arrests on federal sex-trafficking charges in 2024.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had a lot of contact with the school,\u201d said Weisman, who continued to work with the school district. She said she didn\u2019t hear anything. \u201cNot a whisper. Nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Still, at least one former Krop teacher told the Herald she thought the administration was aware.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEveryone knew. Some of the other boys were doing it with them,\u201d the former Krop teacher told the Herald. \u201cThey were gangbanging these girls and taking videos of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Women would later say the brothers continued to film assaults as adults. In the federal case, Oren was convicted of sexual exploitation of a minor for recording himself and another person \u201cengaging in sexual activity with a incapacitated 17-year-old girl in Manhattan\u201d in 2009.<\/p>\n

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\u2018We used to do it with tequila and Xanax\u2019<\/h2>\n

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At Krop, the brothers and their friends were known for throwing parties. Oren would even brag about it in a 2022 interview<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy brother and I, you know, were sort of responsible for the social life for a lot of our friends,\u201d he said. \u201cIn school I remember we were throwing the high school prom parties when we were like sophomores. We were throwing it for the seniors.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After high school, the brothers went to different colleges: Oren to the University of Colorado in Boulder, Alon to the University of Maryland in College Park, and Tal to Hofstra University in Long Island, New York.<\/p>\n

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By the end of Oren\u2019s first semester in college, the University of Colorado Police Department had been called to investigate him for alleged sexual battery, according to a university police report obtained by the Herald.<\/p>\n

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The woman who filed the report said she didn\u2019t know if she was taken advantage of or raped. She had been hanging out with friends in her dorm room when Oren Alexander took off her clothes, and started having sex with her, she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know if I got scared or I kinda blocked it out, but like, all I remember is like all of a sudden he was on top a[sic] me, like, and it was kind of, and just very rough,\u201d she told the officer, according to the report. \u201cI just was too afraid to speak up. Like the words couldn\u2019t come outta my mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She declined to pursue charges, and the investigation was closed.<\/p>\n

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The brothers built a lifestyle of luxury across New York and South Florida after college, frequently traveling to hotspots like the Hamptons and Aspen to party, and vacationing abroad.<\/p>\n

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Alon worked for his family company, Kent Security Services. Oren began working as a broker at Douglas Elliman in New York, and with Tal, they formed the \u201cAlexander Team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m out networking and partying with everyone,\u201d Oren told the Real Deal in a 2011 article on young real estate \u201cMoguls in the making.\u201d He was labeled \u201cThe Party Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 2013, an article in Details Magazine, titled \u201cMeet the new rock stars of real estate,\u201d described Oren and Tal as \u201creal estate royalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the federal trial in Manhattan, prosecutors shared texts between the brothers and their friends to build their case. Some of their old high school friends, including a man named Erik Yehezkel, were in their group chats. Hofeldt said Yehezkel was in another room of the house during her high school assault. Neither Yehezkel nor his attorney responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, they went to Tulum, Mexico, for Erik Yehezkel\u2019s 30th birthday celebration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t want anyone being upset if they don\u2019t run a 10 man train,\u201d Yehezkel texted in a group chat titled \u201cLions of Tulum.\u201d While he is identified only as \u201cMale-1\u201d in the federal indictment, prosecutors later identified him as the man behind the texts in the trial.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBoys need to hunt we are running out of prey,\u201d Oren wrote in a group chat in July 2017, according to trial transcripts.<\/p>\n

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On June 29, 2020, Yehezkel wrote in a group chat: \u201cYeah, let\u2019s get these girls real wasted. Maybe we\u2019ll be able to bang \u2018em easier.\u201d Alon responded with laughing emojis.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe used to do it with tequila and xanax,\u201d Yehezkel texted.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Know that we were all victims\u2019<\/h2>\n

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It took nearly two decades of rape accusations before the men would be arrested. At each stage of their lives, women would later say it was an open secret.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery friend I talked to would say either them, or their friend had been assaulted by him,\u201d a woman told Miami Beach police detective Jessica Pascual in August 2024, while reporting that Oren raped her in 2017. \u201cIt was like everyone in Miami knew.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She told the detective she heard he once raped a 13-year-old \u2013 and that she \u201cheard stories about the pool stick girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On Dec. 11, 2024, about 40 FBI agents planned to meet Miami Beach police at 5 a.m. at the Miami Beach Golf Club on Alton Road \u2013 the halfway point between the twins\u2019 Miami Beach homes.<\/p>\n

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They surrounded both houses with patrol units, an operational plan shows, and arrested Oren and Alon in Miami Beach. Federal agents arrested Tal \u2013 visiting from New York \u2013 at his father\u2019s home in Bal Harbour.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Alexander Brothers are serial violent rapists who have been drugging and forcibly raping women alone and together for years,\u201d read a federal indictment filed the day before.<\/p>\n

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The women interviewed by the Herald watched as the news unfolded. They are now in their mid-to late 30s.<\/p>\n

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Some moved across the country. Some got married, and several are raising young children. Some never told their partners or friends \u2013 and are only beginning to talk about it.<\/p>\n

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Some spoke to authorities after the first accusations against the brothers became public. The woman who said she was raped in eighth grade met with Miami-Dade police. Three others shared their stories with the FBI \u2013 including Hofeldt and the woman who filed the 2003 police report.<\/p>\n

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So did the woman who said Tal led her into a bathroom, and propped a camcorder on the sink. She recently told high school friends what happened. Often, she thinks about what she might say to her younger self and those other girls.<\/p>\n

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\u201cKnow that we were all victims,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that, however we ended up there, we were exploited.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When the verdict was announced, she was making dinner for her three children. A friend from high school sent her an article showing the guilty verdict.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThank f\u2014– God. Love you,\u201d the friend texted.<\/p>\n

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She got goosebumps and began to cry.<\/p>\n

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