Luxury real estate broker and his twin held without bail on sex trafficking charges

A prominent luxury real estate broker and his identical twin brother appeared in a Florida courtroom Thursday on sexual assault charges. Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxury real estate firm Official, which specializes in high-end properties in cities including New York, Miami, and Los Angeles with billionaire clients. In 2019, they helped Citadel hedge fund founder Ken Griffin purchase a $238 million New York penthouse, setting a record for the highest-priced home ever sold in the U.S. Federal prosecutors allege in the New York indictment that all three Alexander brothers worked together to “repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault, and rape dozens of victims.” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said Wednesday at a news conference that the brothers used their wealth and influence to take advantage of victims during a period from at least 2010 to 2021. In the Florida cases, state prosecutors described one incident in December 2016 as a “gang rape” of a woman who said she was invited to a barbecue at Alon Alexander’s Miami Beach apartment only to discover no one there but Alon and another man.