A federal jury on Monday found the Alexander brothers guilty of orchestrating a sex-trafficking conspiracy involving the drugging and raping of dozens of women over decades, from New York City to their hometown of Miami.

The 12-person jury, which deliberated for three days in New York federal court, convicted twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, and their older brother, Tal Alexander, 39, of the main conspiracy charge and nine related offenses, including involving a minor girl under 18.

The brothers, who faced trial for five weeks, were not all charged in every count — but each still faces up to life in prison on the conviction for the sex-trafficking conspiracy alone.

And now that their federal trial is over, Alon and Oren will also have to face three state rape charges in Miami, including one that stems from an alleged assault at Alon’s Miami Beach condo on New Year’s Eve in 2016.

Attorney Lilian Timmermann, who represents Lindsey Acree, one of the victims in the federal criminal case, called the verdict “an enormous victory” for the victims and a “measure of long-awaited justice.”

“It must also mark the start of a reckoning for rich, powerful men in America who thought their money and power had shielded them from consequences,” Timmermann, who also is representing Acree in her civil case against Oren and Tal Alexander, told the Miami Herald. “Today they know their victims won’t be silenced anymore.”

Arrested in Miami Beach

Since their arrests by the FBI on federal sex-trafficking charges in December 2024 in Miami Beach, twins Alon and Oren Alexander and Tal have been held at a criminal detention center in Brooklyn, the same lockup where music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs was held during his sex-trafficking trial last year.

Alon had worked in the family’s security business in the Miami area, while Oren and Tal attained fame and fortune as luxury real estate brokers in New York City and Miami.

In a closing argument last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones methodically revisited the testimony of 11 women who told jurors they were sexually assaulted by at least one of the brothers. Jones argued that the accounts, though delivered by women who “never have met each other and live different lives,” shared what he called “one horrific thing in common: they were raped by these men.”

Yachts, mansions, luxury trips

Jones outlined what the government characterized as an extensive pattern of sex-trafficking, from 2009 to 2021. Prosecutors allege the brothers used their wealth, social status and access to exclusive events to entice young women to private homes, yachts, mansions and luxury trips — sometimes paying for flights and high-end accommodations — before drugging and assaulting them.

“The defendants had a playbook,” Jones said, describing the use of “parties, boats, mansions, travel and accommodations” to lure women into isolated settings.

The government claims the brothers used force and drugs to incapacitate the women. Several women testified they believed their drinks had been spiked. Jurors were shown videos and text messages that prosecutors say corroborate the allegations. One video included a statement attributed to Oren Alexander: “I’m serious. I drug bitches.”

Grew up in Miami area

The brothers, whose parents own a waterfront home in Bal Harbour and other assets worth tens of millions of dollars, attended Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School near Aventura in the early 2000s.

They were seemingly on top of the world until 2024, when the first of more than two dozen lawsuits were filed by women alleging they sexually assaulted them. Those suits not only dredged up dark secrets dating back years but also laid the foundation for their federal criminal case.

Acree, who testified during the trial that she believed she was drugged and assaulted in the Hamptons by Tal Alexander and a friend of his, said she had mixed feelings about the verdict.

“I’m not happy because, you know, this shouldn’t ever happen in the world that we live in, but I’m feeling very patriotic right now in a time that I certainly haven’t for a while,” she said in an interview with the Herald. Acree is a Brooklyn gallery owner and artist.

Acree also said the parents of the Alexander brothers, Shlomi and Orly Alexander, walked into the Four Seasons hotel in Manhattan as she was meeting with Timmermann in the lobby after the verdict was read. She said they looked stone cold and serious.

In major U.S. cities, federal sex-trafficking investigations have become more commonplace in the era of Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy amid the #MeToo movement. But to make such cases, authorities have to show that a trafficker either physically threatened or forced women to engage in sexual activity with them or others for money to fulfill the legal definition of a commercial sex act.

In cases involving adults, prosecutors have to show that a trafficker used “force, fraud, or coercion to subject victims to engage in commercial sex” under federal law. In cases involving minors, the barriers to prosecution are not as high because the victims are under 18.

Last year, Diddy was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges in Manhattan federal court but found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution — a mixed result for federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. He was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.

Before closing arguments in the Alexanders’ trial last week, federal prosecutors told judge Valerie E. Caproni that the government planned to drop two sex-trafficking charges against the brothers tied to events in the Hamptons in 2009, which left them facing 10 charges.

The defense attorneys representing Alon Alexander were Howard Srebnick, Jackie Perczek and Jason Goldman; lawyers defending Oren Alexander were Marc Agnifilo, Teny Geragos and Zach Intrater, along with Jenny Wilson; and lawyers representing Tal Alexander were Deanna Paul, Milton Williams and Alexander Kahn.

Srebnick and Perczek, former partners of the late Roy Black, as well as Wilson are the only attorneys from Miami.

Acree, Victim #1 in court records, acknowledged Kate Whiteman, the first woman who sued the brothers and was found dead last year in her native Australia. Her death was deemed “non-suspicious’’ by Australian authorities. She was 45. Whiteman was featured in the Real Deal, which first reported about the Alexander brothers.

“I just wish that she was here so she could see what a huge difference she made in so many women’s lives,” Acree said.

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(Miami Herald staff writer Ana Claudia Chacin contributed to this report.)

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