NYC judge rips Alexander brothers as ‘like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ before revealing their fate for ‘monstrous’ serial rapes
NYC judge rips Alexander brothers as ‘like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ before revealing their fate for ‘monstrous’ serial rapes
A Manhattan judge Tuesday slammed the twisted Alexander brothers as “a lot Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’’ and “monstrous’’ for using their status as high-flying real-estate scions to drug and rape scores of women — then sentenced them each to 30 years behind bars.
“My view of the defendants was that they were a lot like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” US District Judge Valerie Caproni told Tal Alexander, 40, and his 39-year-old twin brothers Oren and Alon in a federal courtroom filled with women the trio sexually assaulted after luring them into their luxe orbit over more than a decade.
“I don’t refer to people as monsters because even rapists can change, but your conduct was monstrous, “ the judge said, citing how victim after victim described the brothers as “sadistic, masochistic, sexual predators.
“Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives,” the judge said as several of the men’s victims glared at the twisted siblings from the courtroom gallery.
Caproni even noted, in a scathing commentary on the men, how no old or close friends of theirs bothered to send the court a letter of support for them, with most of the submitted notes — designed to try to sway the judge toward leniency — coming from pals of the siblings’ parents.
The once-powerhouse brothers faced a minimum of 15 years in prison and up to life behind bars.
The heinous sex attackers were handed the heavy sentences after 11 of their victims confronted them in court during an all-day hearing.
“Why did you do this? I just don’t get it. I don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred towards women,” said Brooklyn artist Lindsay Acree, who choked back tears as the privileged onetime Big Apple and Miami mover-and-shakers sat stoically, wearing tan jail jumpsuits.
Acree testified during the brothers’ bombshell trial earlier this year about being drugged and raped by real-estate bigwig Tal in 2021.
“There is no way to calculate what this trauma has cost me,” added victim “Bela Koval,” a Ukrainian model who testified about being “paralyzed” by a drugged drink as Oren raped her inside a $13 million Sag Harbor mansion where the brothers hosted parties.
Jurors heard chilling evidence of the siblings sexually assaulting women — with the fiends sometimes working together — at gaudy Hamptons mansions, inside New York City apartments, on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado, and during a Caribbean cruise between 2008 and 2021.
Prosecutors say the brothers’ pattern of sexual assaults dates back even earlier, to 2001 and 2002, when they were still in high school in Florida.
“The defendants preyed on women and young girls, using drugs and violence to incapacitate them so they could rape them,” said Manhattan US Attorney Jamie McDonald, who observed the sentencing from the courtroom’s front rowin a statement afterward.
“The defendants did this for years — inflicting unspeakable harm on so many young women. And, for years, the defendants used their careers and social status to conceal the danger they posed.”
“Today’s sentence makes clear that this craven, sinister conduct is extraordinarily serious and will be met with serious punishment,” McDonald said.
Tal and Oren — hotshot realtors who catered to celebs such as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and helped sell hedge-funder Ken Griffin’s record-smashing $240 million Midtown penthouse — and their security-firm brother Alon all maintained their innocence Tuesday even after previously being found guilty of various sex trafficking charges.
“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We have never trafficked anyone for sex, and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” Oren insisted in court.
The married fallen realtor-to-the-stars blamed his foul-mouthed persona on growing up listening to shock-jock Howard Stern and living in a “hook-up culture.”
“I was partying too much and sleeping with too many women in those years,” Oren said.
The three brothers all stood at the defense table in tan jail jumpsuits, Oren wearing a gray yarmulke, and did not appear to show much emotion as the judge announced their sentences.
Tal choked up as he recounting the moment he was indicted back in 2024 after nightmarish allegations about the trio first emerged in civil lawsuits.
“It almost feels like an atomic bomb has been dropped on my life and destroyed everything in its wake,” the disgraced property bigwig said.
Tal said he was struggling “to find words to express genuine regret without confessing to something that I did not do.”
Alon, Oren’s twin, proclaimed his innocence, too — and broke down while talking about his children.
“I am not a perfect man, but I am innocent of these charges. I have never raped or sex trafficked anyone,” he said.
The twins claimed to have passed lie-detector tests showing they never raped or drugged anyone — but the assertion fell on deaf ears with the judge, as polygraphs are not considered legitimate evidence in federal courts.
“Liars can pass a lie detector test. … Mazel tov that you passed it,” Caproni said sarcastically.
The brothers’ wealthy parents, Shlomy and Orly, who founded the Miami-based Kent Security company, and Oren and Alon’s wives, Brazilian model Kamila Hansen and Israeli model Shani Zigron respectively, all did not attend the sentencing even after attending most if not all of the trial. The brothers had urged their relatives to skip court to spare them the anguish of watching the stiff sentence being handed down, their lawyers claimed.
All three brothers plan to appeal, and had asked the court in vain for the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.