Wealthy Brothers, Secret Predators? The Rise and Fall of the Alexanders, Accused Sex Traffickers

It felt like a fairy tale. That’s what Maria Suska, 40, a nurse who immigrated to the U.S. from Poland when she was a teenager, remembered thinking when, after years of focusing on work and not her social life, she met a charming and handsome real estate broker named Oren Alexander on Facebook in April 2014.

They met for dinner at a restaurant in Miami, and within hours he was leading her by the hand into a darkened room at the Villa Casa Casuarina Hotel—formerly the Versace mansion—in South Beach.

But Suska’s romantic dream turned into a nightmare after the couple’s first embrace. She claims that her date that night turned violent, according to a report she filed with Miami Beach police last year. “He grabs me, turns me around and starts aggressively kissing me,” she recalls in an interview with People.

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Startled, Suska says, she assumed that her date was nervous and politely asked him to calm down. But that only seemed to excite him more, she says. “The more I resisted, the more he got aggressive. His eyes changed, and he started undressing me and pushed me down—and then he raped me,” she says.

When it was over, Suska says, she looked up and saw her attacker smirking as he said coldly, “That was good.”

A decade later Suska is just one of dozens of women who have accused Oren, 37, as well as his twin brother, Alon, and older brother Tal, 38, of sexually assaulting them. The inseparable siblings had been social fixtures in Miami, New York and Aspen, where they wielded power, access and money in the luxury-real-estate market.

But by night, federal prosecutors allege, the brothers “worked together and with others known and unknown to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of victims.”

Dating back to their high school days in Miami, authorities claim, the Alexander brothers have been sexually assaulting women—alone and sometimes as a group—and grew more emboldened after they all moved to New York by 2009, at times videotaping their nonconsensual encounters with women and eventually allegedly trafficking women for sex during stays in the Hamptons and Mexico.

In predawn raids on the brothers’ homes in Florida, FBI agents and police arrested Oren, Alon and Tal on Dec. 11, 2024. Between them, they have since been charged with a total of 20 federal counts of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, including two charges involving a minor, in the Southern District of New York.

In addition, Oren and Alon have also been charged with sexual battery of three women in Florida. (In videotape of Alon being informed by Miami Beach Police Department detectives that he is being arrested, he responded, “For which incident?”)

The brothers are also facing more than 40 sexual assault lawsuits in New York, Florida and Colorado. 

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Now awaiting trial without bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center—the same facility where Sean “Diddy” Combs and CEO-killing suspect Luigi Mangione are being held—the Alexander brothers maintain their innocence on all of the criminal charges and have denied liability in all of the civil suits.

The civil lawsuits are “examples of unsupported accusations by women demanding untold amounts of money, who did not file a police complaint, did not seek medical attention and did not report physical injuries,” says Alon’s attorney Howard Srebnick.

“They offer zero forensic evidence that they were drugged or that Alon sexually assaulted them, and they fail to identify anyone on the planet Earth who corroborates their stories,” says Srebnick. As for the federal criminal case, Srebnick claims Alon passed a lie detector test and “truthfully declared that he never drugged any woman, nor had sex with any woman who he believed was drugged.”

The Alexander brothers grew up rich. Their parents, Shlomo and Orly Alexander, founded a property security firm just before the birth of their sons. Business was good. In 1990 the couple purchased the mansion in Bal Harbour, Fla., where the brothers grew up, now valued at $18.5 million.

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By 2009 the brothers were living in New York City, where Tal and Oren became licensed real estate brokers and Alon enrolled in law school. Working as a team, Oren and Tal landed a listing in 2012 that transformed them into industry heavyweights overnight—a mansion on Miami’s exclusive Indian Creek Island owned by their parents that sold for a record-breaking $47 million.

The highly publicized sale earned them party invites, spots on an annual list of the most eligible bachelors and entrée into the New York City social scene. Meanwhile, Alon became an executive with his parents’ firm. 

The brothers developed a reputation for hosting hot parties. “They would get listings of these luxury expensive homes and then use these homes to lure girls,” says a Miami real estate executive who has known the family for years.

“Sometimes they would force sex on the girls, and other times they would just have entertaining evenings in these homes that did not belong to them.”

In New York, federal prosecutors claim, the brothers used the Hamptons compound they rented during the summers as a magnet to attract women they would then sexually assault, luring them with the promise of free travel and accommodations.

Prosecutors say several women recall having a drink prepared by one of the brothers that left them unable to move or even to speak. In a 2021 text message sent to Tal, prosecutors claim, Oren wrote: “We are on top of the game and the only thing that can bring us down is some Hoe [sic] complaining.”

 Joel Denaro and Edward O’Donnell, defense lawyers for Oren and Alon in the Florida state sexual assault case, say their clients are falsely accused by prosecutors, personal-injury attorneys and opportunists looking for money and attention.

“Not one accuser had gone to any law enforcement agency to report these allegations against the Brothers. Every single accuser’s Personal injury attorney, who split any financial award with them, are the ones who contacted law enforcement. Somehow they all came forward at the same time after they were apparently raped 8 to 20 years ago. Zombies have awoken or it was the sophisticated social media campaign the injury attorneys ran to solicit girls who can now say sex with the brothers was noncensual. Consensual is worthless, non-consensual is worth millions,” their lawyers say.

But 10 years after her devastating night with Oren at a Miami hotel that she claims changed her life forever, Maria Suska, whose own allegations are past the statute of limitations to prosecute, hopes justice will be served to the brothers in court.

“I lost so many years of my life, and all this time they’ve been walking free, partying and doing the same thing to other girls,” she says. “Finally, they will get what they deserve.”