MIAMI — A popular nightclub in Miami Beach seemed to have a plan, according to a new lawsuit.

Bring the “best looking” and “most intoxicated” women to the wealthy Miami brothers sitting in the VIP section of Basement, a local nightclub at The Miami Beach EDITION hotel, the suit filed last week in the Southern District of Florida alleges. From there, they were drugged and later raped by twins Oren and Alon Alexander.

Tiffany Marina Rodriguez, a 30-year-old Miami resident, who brought forward the legal complaint, claims this is what happened to her in 2016. And she said that the brothers filmed the assault.

The twins, 38, along with their older brother Tal Alexander, 39, now stand trial in New York in a case centered on federal sex trafficking charges. Two women have already testified, and more women are expected to take the stand in upcoming weeks.

Alon and Oren are also both charged in a Florida state case of sexual battery against one woman. Oren is facing an additional two charges of sexual battery in Miami-Dade in separate cases.

Rodriguez’s story – outlined in the Jan. 22 suit – is similar to stories that have been detailed by dozens of women before her in lawsuits and media reports, many of whom say they were first approached at clubs or parties. But her suit is the first to name a club as complicit. It states that an employee reported to her manager that on three separate occasions a total of four women said they had been drugged and raped by the brothers.

One or more of the three Alexander men have been accused in over 30 civil, state and federal cases of systematically raping and sex trafficking women in places including Florida, New York, Colorado, Mexico and Russia. Federal prosecutors say that more than 60 women have come forward. The federal indictment describes alleged offenses against eight women, including two who were minors at the time of the alleged misconduct. In December 2024, the three Alexander brothers were arrested by the FBI and detained in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Rodriguez’s lawsuit names a number of people and businesses that were connected to other aspects of the brothers’ lives.

It names the men; their parents; Kent Security, the company owned by their parents; Douglas Elliman, the real estate company where Tal and Oren worked, and Howard Lorber, its former CEO; and the nightclub Basement at The Miami Beach EDITION and its owner(s), including Marriott International, Inc.

Since their arrest, the brothers have maintained their innocence. Representatives for Kent Security, Marriott International, Inc. and EDITION Hotels did not respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.

All defendants are accused of sex trafficking and human trafficking.

“Hopefully, our lawsuit can bring about not just justice for our client, but perhaps a change in certain industries,” said Arick Fudali, a partner in The Bloom Firm, which is representing Rodriguez. The law firm – run by high-profile attorney Lisa Bloom – represents clients who have accused rapper Kanye West of sexual misconduct and music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs of assault, as well as 11 victims of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who accused him of sexual misconduct.

Fudali attended the federal criminal trial of the Alexander brothers in Manhattan on Tuesday, and said that the testimony of the first victim was eerily similar to his client’s. He said Rodriguez couldn’t attend – and he wanted to be there on her behalf and be “in support of the other accusers,” and gather information.

Juda Engelmayer, a public relations representative for the brothers, said that the brothers deny any video exists.

“The complaint includes claims about the existence of a video depicting a crime. The defendants deny that any such video exists, and no such evidence has ever been presented to law enforcement,” said Engelmayer, in an emailed statement provided on behalf of the brothers’ Florida attorneys to the Miami Herald. “As with the other allegations in this civil filing, these assertions remain unproven. Questions of consent and criminal conduct are determined by evidence, not by hindsight, personal relationships, or narrative claims made years later.”

Counsel for Lorber, in an emailed statement to the Herald, said the accusations were “false.” Other women also brought a lawsuit against him last year.

“The allegations in the complaint concerning Howard Lorber are conclusory and false,” said Marc Kasowitz. “Mr. Lorber had absolutely no role in or knowledge of the Alexander brothers’ alleged sex trafficking venture. Mr. Lorber intends to get the case against him dismissed.”

Rodriguez’s attorney Fudali told the Herald the firm was looking “forward to litigating the lawsuit” and had done its “due diligence.”

“The PR team’s specific and selective denial of the referenced videotape is enlightening given the breadth of serious allegations in the Complaint,” Fudali said. “We look forward to fighting for justice and proving all of our allegations in court.”

Rodriguez went to the Basement nightclub on Sept. 26, 2016 with a friend, who had been invited by a promoter and an acquaintance to “hang out” with the brothers, according to the lawsuit. Rodriguez was 21 at the time.

She was drugged, and the men brought her back to Oren’s apartment in Sunny Isles, the suit states. When she regained consciousness, she was “pinned beneath the arms of a horizontally positioned office chair” while the twins took turns raping her.

She was hospitalized afterward for three days for injuries, the lawsuit states, and attempted suicide in following months.

“The psychological toll the sexual assault took on Plaintiff has been catastrophic,” the lawsuit reads.

“As a result of the acts and conduct complained herein, Plaintiff has suffered, and will continue to suffer, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, loss of enjoyment of life, depression, anxiety, paranoia.”

Scores of women describe rape

By the time the federal criminal trial of the Alexander brothers started on Tuesday, dozens of women had already filed civil lawsuits or otherwise shared their stories publicly.

Maria S. described her rape at the Versace Mansion in 2014 to Miami police days after their arrest in 2024. In a lawsuit last year, Samantha Nicholson said she was raped and drugged by all three brothers over a weekend in The Hamptons in 2009, and later raped again.

A woman filing in the lawsuit under the name “Jane Doe” alleged she was “savagely drugged and raped” in 2011 by Tal Alexander and went to the hospital. Milena Koste said she was raped by the twins after a house party in 2012.

Artist Lindsey Acree filed a lawsuit against the brothers last year, alleging they drugged and raped her in 2011. She initially had filed the lawsuit as a “Jane Doe,” but after a judge denied her request to remain anonymous she decided to come forward publicly to keep her case and support other women.

In 2010, Laura Buck tried to warn other women about the brothers who she said drugged and assaulted her, according to a lawsuit she filed in 2025. She messaged multiple women. She reached out to the police. She went to a local hospital, and even contacted the men’s mother. Finally, she scrawled in red lipstick across the hallways of their apartment.

“Tal Alexander is a Rapist” she wrote in bold letters on the wall, the lawsuit states. “Oren Alexander is a Rapist.”

According to Rodriguez’s lawsuit, a former VIP Director at the Basement nightclub raised numerous complaints about the Alexander Brothers to her manager between 2014 and 2016. She reported that at least four women on three occasions said they were drugged at the Basement by the brothers and raped by the men shortly after.

“The former VIP Director observed unconscious women routinely being carried from the nightclub by Basement Miami’s security,” the lawsuit alleges. “Management was aware of these patterns long before September 26, 2016, yet continued to facilitate the scheme.”

The lawsuit claims that the establishment permitted the brothers to “use their venue to carry out their forced sex trafficking scheme.”

The club was also actively part of the abuse, the lawsuit states, “by having Basement Miami Defendant employees recruit and entice women to join the Alexander Brothers VIP table where Basement Miami Defendants knew they would be fraudulently induced into forced sex.”

After a couple drinks at the club’s VIP section on the night she was allegedly assaulted, Rodriguez was in an SUV with the brothers, her friend and a promoter, according to the lawsuit. She then woke up outside a sandwich shop near her residence at the Flamingo complex in Miami Beach.

“She pleaded to go home, but the group ignored her cries,” the lawsuit states.

Next, she collapsed on the couch at Oren’s luxury apartment in Sunny Isles.

“When Plaintiff fully regained consciousness, she found herself in a bedroom, severely physically restrained,” the lawsuit states. “Plaintiff was being raped by both Defendants Oren and Alon Alexander simultaneously.”

The friend who went to the nightclub with Rodriguez, and was at the apartment while she was raped, confronted the promoter who first invited them to the club the next day, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also states that the brothers sent a video of the assault to Rodriguez’s then-boyfriend, who kicked Rodriguez out of their apartment.

Shortly after, Rodriguez was contacted by “a private investigator acting on behalf of Oren.” She didn’t feel safe enough to come forward with her story, the lawsuit states, until she saw the men arrested in December 2024. She was “previously unaware that she was not the only one,” according to the lawsuit.

“If a video exists of a crime, why hasn’t law enforcement seen it?” attorneys Joel Denaro and Ed O’Donnell, who represent the men in the state cases, told the Herald in a texted statement. “Regret and an angry boyfriend doesn’t make sex non consensual.”

Lawyers for the brothers have previously criticized other women for not coming forward sooner with their allegations.

But Rodriguez’s attorney, Arick Fudali, said that is a commonality among his clients who survived sexual abuse.

“Often they suffer in silence for a very long time,” Fudali said.

“It’s almost more common these days for me to speak to a survivor ... and it’d be the first time they’ve told someone,” he said.

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