Three brothers have been sentenced to over 30 years in prison each for drugging and raping dozens of women.
In March, Tal Alexander, 40, and twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, were found guilty of using their wealth and social status to lure women in order to abuse them.
The Alexander brothers worked for estate agent Douglas Elliman in New York and Miami, with clients like Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, and Lindsay Lohan.
Once at a party or in a luxury home with the real estate moguls, the brothers would drug and sexually assault them.
11 victims came forward to share their traumatic experiences in court, many asking for life imprisonment for each brother.
Some had been minors at the time of the assaults, being bombarded with gifts and holidays to luxury locations like Aspen or the Bahamas.
Prosecutors claimed the three had slipped drugs into the victims’ drinks and ‘physically restrained and held down their victims during the rapes and sexual assaults’.
They alleged a pattern of abuse that began in school, although the trial involved crimes spanning back to 2008.
While the brothers argued the intercourse was consensual, prosecutors said they had ‘ignored screams and explicit requests to stop’.
Judge Valerie Caproni called their behaviour ‘monstrous’, telling the brothers they had ‘wreaked havoc’ on the women’s lives.
One woman, Maya Miller, told the court how, after Tal raped her in 2014, she lost all sense of safety and now carries a ‘quiet funeral within me for the person I might’ve become if this never happened to me’.
Another, using the pseudonym Isa Brooks, was raped by Tal and Alon at 16 years old.
‘I had no idea the danger I was in till it was too late’, she shared of the ordeal.
During the trial, one woman said Tal threatened her before she came forward, telling her he knew where her sister worked.
The brothers have denied any wrongdoing, with Tal stating they had a ‘work-hard, play-hard mentality’. He acknowledged how their behaviour had ‘hurt people’s feelings’.
Judge Caprioni asked: ‘How can someone who never acknowledged the wrongs they did be rehabilitated?’
Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa pushed for the maximum punishment and said: ‘For years, they honed their methods of luring women with the promise of luxury.
‘[They were] completely unmoved by the path of suffering they left behind them.’
The Alexanders’ lawyers argued for 15 years behind bars, lamenting the impact on their families.
They will also serve a 20-year sentence for additional crimes but this will run concurrently to the 30-year sentence.
When the judge handed out the ruling, all three brothers reportedly stared straight ahead and did not show any emotion, as they had done throughout the trial.
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