Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander were each sentenced to 30 years in prison after 11 women testified that the brothers lured them with gifts and luxury travel, drugged them and raped them. The sentences close a five-week trial that exposed years of alleged abuse.

Judge Caproni handed down the terms at the end of the hearing. She sentenced each brother to 30 years for certain crimes and to an additional 20 years for other crimes, but ordered the terms to run concurrently. In practical terms, the time served is 30 years for each man.

The courtroom heard from the victims first. One by one, the women described the psychological trauma they carried after the assaults. Many asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence of life in prison for each brother. They spoke of a shame they said should never have fallen on them, but on the men who committed the crimes.

Maya Miller told the court that after Tal Alexander raped her in 2014, she lost all sense of safety.

“I carry a quiet funeral within me for the person I might’ve become if this never happened to me,” she said.

Another woman, who used the pseudonym Isa Brooks, said she was raped by Tal and Alon Alexander when she was 16. She said she lost the ability to trust herself. “I had no idea the danger I was in till it was too late,” she said.

A third woman described a threat that came when she considered going to the authorities. She said Tal Alexander told her he knew where her sister worked. The detail added a layer of intimidation to a case built on alleged manipulation from the start.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa told the court that the facts “paint a truly devastating picture.” She said the brothers had spent years refining their approach. “For years, they honed their methods of luring women with the promise of luxury,” she said. She added that the men were “completely unmoved by the path of suffering they left behind them.”

The three brothers showed little emotion while the women spoke. They stared ahead, or leaned over to confer with their lawyers. The defense team said it had advised the men not to look at the victims, so that no gesture could be misread.

The defense asked for much shorter terms. Attorneys for the brothers pushed for sentences of 15 years, arguing that the men had become devoted fathers and that their families would suffer in their absence.

All three brothers addressed the court and continued to insist they were innocent. Tal Alexander said the brothers had a “work-hard, play-hard mentality.” He acknowledged that he had seen how his behavior “hurt people’s feelings.” That admission fell well short of what the women and prosecutors had asked the court to hear.

Caproni was not persuaded. She challenged the men for refusing to admit what they had done. “How can someone who never acknowledged the wrongs they did be rehabilitated?” she asked. The question framed the sentencing as much about accountability as punishment.

The scope of the abuse

During the trial, 11 women testified against the brothers. Several said they were minors when the assaults happened. They told the court that the brothers showered them with gifts and flew them to destinations including Aspen and the Bahamas. Once there, the women were allegedly given drugs before the assaults began.

Prosecutors said the pattern began in high school, although the charges in the trial covered crimes starting in 2008. According to the prosecution, the three men slipped drugs into women’s drinks. They also physically restrained and held down victims during the rapes and sexual assaults. Prosecutors said the men ignored screams and explicit requests to stop.

The defense told a different story. Lawyers for the brothers argued that the sex was consensual and that their clients were womanisers, but not abusers. The jury and the judge weighed that argument against the testimony of the 11 women, and the sentences reflect the court’s conclusion on the crimes.

Who the brothers were

The case drew attention in part because of the men’s public profiles. Tal and Oren Alexander built wealth selling luxury properties in New York and Miami. They worked for the American real estate firm Douglas Elliman, where their clients included Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. In 2022, the two brothers founded their own New York-based firm, called Official.

Alon Alexander worked at the family’s private security firm, Kent Security. That professional footprint, spread across real estate and security, is part of why the case has resonated beyond the courtroom. The women described men who used status and money as bait.

What comes next

The sentences end the trial phase, but the story the women told in court remains the centre of the case. Their accounts, given one after another, showed a consistent pattern of luxury, drugs and force. The judge’s decision confirms that the court believed the core of that account, even as the men maintained their innocence.

As the sentences were read, the brothers stared straight ahead. They did not look at the women who had spent days describing what happened to them.