Alexander Brothers Each Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking

Real estate brokers Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother, security executive Alon Alexander, were sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday by a federal judge after being found guilty at trial of conspiracy to traffic women and girls for sex.

Federal Judge Valerie E. Caproni handed down the three-decade sentences before a packed courtroom. The brothers, who have denied any wrongdoing, had asked for 15-year sentences following the guilty verdict. Prosecutors sought life, but Caproni said she considered that punishment “draconian.”

None of the brothers took the stand at their federal trial, where a Manhattan jury found all three guilty on all counts in a verdict read on March 9. Eleven women testified over the course of the trial. Alon and Tal were also convicted of sex trafficking of a minor. Alon and Oren were convicted of aggravated sexual abuse by force or intoxicant and sexual abuse of a physically incapacitated person.

At trial, prosecutors showed the jury a video of Oren Alexander raping an incapacitated 17-year-old girl in 2009.

At sentencing, 11 victims addressed the court for nearly 90 minutes. A 12th victim was expected to speak but asked the government to read her statement on her behalf.

Prosecutors alleged in the indictment and at trial that the brothers used their wealth and influence to lure women and, in some cases, drug, sexually assault and rape them.

The brothers have also faced about two dozen civil lawsuits, including one from Tracy Tutor of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles.”

They were recently the subject of the Peacock three-part documentary The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers, which released ahead of their sentencing. Director Emma Schwartz told The Hollywood Reporter it was a challenge to get people to participate on camera. “This was a really difficult story to get people to speak publicly and it took a lot of fits and starts and there were people that wanted to and then didn’t want to. And that’s part of the process,” she said, while sharing something that stuck with her in her investigation.

“One thing I keep coming back to was the way in which the brothers committed so much to writing, so much about the way that they thought about women and the way that they, in their own words, hunted women, preyed on women, and thought of women as something where you could get your return on investment, almost like property,” she said. “That kind of language is sort of searing. And while we may never understand why people commit sexual assault or exactly what leads to any particular situation, there was clearly this mentality that women were less than, and that they were pretty brazen in how they talked about women, at least among their friends, quite openly. I mean, even messages that never made it in the doc, I still remember.”