Photographs of the suspects are displayed on a television screen while State Attorney Katherine Fernandez speaks during a press conference to announce that the co-founders of the U.S. luxury real estate brokerage Official have been arrested on sex-trafficking charges, at the State Attorney’s Office in Miami, Florida, U.S., December 11, 2024.
Giorgio Viera | Reuters
Federal prosecutors in New York accused top real estate agents Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother, Alon, of drugging and raping “dozens of victims” over more than a decade.
The brothers “used their wealth and positions to create and facilitate opportunities to rape and sexually assault women,” according to the newly unsealed federal indictment charging them with sex trafficking.
At times, they “lured” women with luxury travel to destinations where they were then sexually assaulted, the indictment alleged.
They also allegedly “worked together and with others known and unknown” to carry out the sex trafficking scheme. Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, declined to specify who else is under investigation in the case.
The brothers — who had been synonymous with Manhattan’s luxury real estate market before allegations against them first surfaced earlier this year — were arrested in Miami on Wednesday morning.
They each face one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and one count of sex trafficking of a victim by force, fraud, or coercion, according to the eight-page…
