The sickening evidence that helped convict Alexander brothers of lenghty reign of sexual terror
Vulgar messages boasting about needing to hunt more prey, a vile rape blog and disturbing graphic footage were among the trove of evidence used to finally bring an end to the years-long reign of sexual terror inflicted by the infamous Alexander brothers.
Luxury real estate agents Tal and Oren Alexander and their older brother Alon were convicted in Manhattan federal court on Monday of sex trafficking for drugging and raping scores of women they lured in with their vast wealth and opulent lifestyle over a decade-long stretch.
Duringthe monthlong trial, prosecutors laid bare the cache of sickening evidence that showed how the brothers preyed on women — and then boasted about their exploits.
Jurors heard nightmarish testimony, too, from 11 victims describing sexual assaults by the brothers after meeting them on dating apps and at glitzy parties between 2008 and 2021.
Here’s some of the most disturbing revelations to have emerged during the scandalous trial:
“Boys need to hunt:” The crude messages bragging about victims
Prosecutors routinely spotlighted messages pulled from the brothers’ devices that they exchanged among themselves, or posted online, during their reign of terror.
In one text message, Oren told his siblings that the “boys need to hunt” because “we are running out of prey.”
Alon, at one point, had boasted in a separate message that Oren “took down a 17-year-old,” prosecutors said.
Blog posts boasting “it’s not rape if…”
Jurors were also shown multiple blog entries from a site — titled “Bent on Bitches” — set up by friends of Oren and Alon back in 2008.
Prosecutors argued the real estate twins penned some of the posts and that the blog was proof of their mindset that encouraged drugging and raping women.
Some of the more disturbing posts referenced that “it’s not rape if she doesn’t remember” and if “she secretly wants it.”
During the trial, defense attorneys acknowledged the blog was “horrific” but repeatedly attacked the prosecution’s efforts to tie the brothers to the disturbing entries.
“There is zero proof that any of the Alexander brothers ever wrote any of those blog posts, and there is not one shred of evidence that Tal even knew it existed,” Deanna Paul, a lawyer for Tal Alexander, argued at one point.
The graphic videos and photos
At one point during the trial, jurors were shown a clip appearing to show Oren raping a drugged 17-year-old girl in 2009 at the Manhattan apartment he shared with his brothers.
Oren recorded the video with his laptop computer — and could be seen adjusting the angle before the alleged assault, prosecutors claimed.
“You can see the playbook in action here,” Assistant US Attorney Andrew Jones said. “When you saw him pick up her limp legs and climb on top of her lifeless body, you knew what you were seeing.”
On another occasion, prosecutors flashed a photo of a 16-year-old girl, sleeping topless, that was found on one of the brothers’ laptop hard drives.
The boarding school student was allegedly raped by two of the brothers after she skipped her prom to join them in the Hamptons, jurors heard.
Gut-wrenching testimony of the assaults
The trial also heard from nearly a dozen women who accused the brothers of sexually assaulting them inside Hamptons mansions and New York City apartments, as well as on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado, and during a Caribbean cruise.
Among them was a Ukrainian model who testified how she was “paralyzed” by a drugged drink as Oren raped her inside a $13 million Sag Harbor mansion where the brothers hosted parties.
A Nevada nurse, too, recalled how Tal violently raped her as she wept in the shower at the same Hamptons party house.
And another accuser testified how Alon had raped her inside a Manhattan apartment after she met him at an exclusive NBA Finals watch party hosted by actor Zac Efron.
The brothers each face a minimum of 15 years in prison and up to life behind bars at sentencing on August 9 for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and other sex crime raps. They are planning to appeal, their attorneys said.
