A property tycoon whose three sons have just been charged with a series of gang rapes smiled and said he was doing ‘great’ as he left a grim court hearing.
Shlomy Alexander, a renowned Miami real estate developer, gave the jaw-dropping response when asked how he was doing after exiting twin sons’ Alon and Oren Alexanders’ first court hearing in Miami Thursday.
His wife Orly, the boys’ mother, said nothing and stared stonily ahead.
The couple were both filmed scowling as their twins case was heard by Judge Cindy Glazer and likely headed home to their $18 million Bal Harbor mansion after the hearing.
The scandal heaps disgrace on Shlomy and Orly, who arrived in the US from Israel penniless and turned themselves into self-made millionaires.
Oren and Alon, 37, swapped their beautifully cut suits for drab green stab vests during Thursday’s hearing and appeared shell-shocked by their sudden change in circumstances.
Older brother Tal, 38, who worked as a star Douglas Elliman realtor alongside Oren, has also been charged with sex trafficking and rape but was not present in court.
The three brothers were arrested at separate addresses in Miami on Wednesday. Oren and Alon, who works for his mother’s security firm, were both denied bail Thursday.
Oren tried to paint himself as a family man in court, saying his model wife Kamila Hansen was due to give birth any day and that he needed to be home.
Formerly high-flying real estate insiders and socialites in New York and Miami, the brothers’ bail was denied because their access to private jets and yachts made them a flight risk.
Shlomy Alexander, a renowned Miami real estate developer and father of three accused sex trafficker predators smiled and said he was doing ‘great’ in a baffling reaction after leaving their first court appearance on Thursday
Earlier in the court hearing, the disgraced twins’ mom Orly and father Shlomy looked ashen-faced. Another one of their sons, Tal, has also been charged with sex trafficking
Oren Alexander (left) and Alon Alexander (right) stood shame-faced and wearing suicide vests in their first court appearance after being charged in a wide-ranging sex crimes investigation linked to their family real estate empire
Both Oren, his twin sibling Alon and Tal, who was not in court Thursday, face lengthy jail stints after being accused of carrying out a years-long sex trafficking campaign.
They have also faced civil suits and state charges accusing them of drugging and raping women between 2010 and 2021.
The trio are said to have deliberately arranged elaborate parties and events as ‘bait’ to invite women they’d selected from a twisted rape ‘wish list.’
Their cousin Ohad Fisherman is also accused of being in on the alleged industrial-scale sex abuse but is currently on the run.
The brothers boasted of their lavish lifestyle on social media over the years and found themselves in high-flying social circles, with Oren previously pictured partying with fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.
The three brothers were arrested at separate properties in Miami on Wednesday morning, and the twins are also facing state felony charges of sexual battery related to alleged assaults on three women, reports the New York Times.
Prosecutors claim they used their wealth and status to target and coerce women, and even allegedly conspired to set up events and trips to entice women into their web.
The accused brothers’ parents are security executive Orly Alexander and real estate developer Shlomy Alexander (pictured together)
The brothers pictured back in 2015 as they built glitzy careers in real estate and security
Oren is pictured with model wife Kamila Hansen, whose pregnancy he tried to use as an excuse to be bailed
On Wednesday, FBI agents were seen outside Oren’s home in Miami, and a spokesperson with the FBI’s New York division told Bloomberg they obtained a search warrant for his property.
The brothers have previously denied the allegations against them and are currently being held in custody in Miami.
According to reported arrest warrants, Oren and Alon Alexander were indicted over three sexual assaults said to have taken place in 2016, 2017 and 2021.
Prosecutors say there were far more attacks, but have
Oren Alexander is cited in all three allegations, while only the 2016 incident involved Alon.
None of the arrest warrants reference Tal and the specific claims which led to his indictment have yet to emerge.
The Alexander brothers, known as star real estate agents with Douglas Elliman, have been taken into custody alongside their brother Alon (right) amid allegations of rape, sex trafficking and sexual assault
The first of the three allegations against the brothers from 2016 alleged that Alon Alexander invited a New York woman down to Miami Beach for a barbeque, only for her to find that she was the only person invited when she got there.
She claimed Alon gave her a tour and led her to the bedroom, where she was confronted by Alon, Oren, and their cousin, Ohad Fisherman.
She told the Miami Beach Police Department that Fisherman held her down while the brothers sexually assaulted her. The New York Times reported that Fisherman now faces a sexual battery charge, but remains at large.
In 2017, it is alleged that Oren Alexander messaged another woman on Instagram and invited to the beach, where she later met Alon and other family members.
Weeks later she said she had dinner with Oren and a friend before a real estate event, and said she was taken back to the same Miami Beach condo where the 2016 claim unfolded.
She said she tried on virtual reality goggles inside the condo, at which point Oren allegedly removed her dress and pushed her into a bedroom before assaulting her.
The victim said she met Oren weeks later at a hot tub event, and demanded an apology, which he responded to by trying to kiss her and masturbate over her, it is claimed.
When she told friends and Oren heard about it, he allegedly sent her a text message in 2018 saying: ‘Nothing happened. If you keep talking about it, I’m going to ruin you.’
One of the accusers claimed that the Alexander brothers’ cousin Ohad Fisherman (pictured right with Alon, left) held her down while she was being assaulted. He has been charged with sexual battery, but was not arrested at the same time as the brothers in Miami
In the 2021 incident, a woman claimed she met Oren at dinner with a friend before they went to a Miami Beach property. At the home, she said Oren poured her a drink and instantly tried to kiss her on the couch.
He led her to the bedroom, she claimed, ripped off her dress and shoes, and refused to let her leave. She said she later returned to the bedroom and he assaulted her, according to the warrant.
Since June, the brothers have also been hit with civil lawsuits from at least two women and accused of sexual assault by dozens more in recent years.
One lawsuit filed in March accused Oren and Alon of rape, and a second lawsuit included similar allegations against Tal, reports the Wall Street Journal.
The men have denied the allegations in the lawsuits, which shocked the real estate world where Tal and Oren were once seen as rising stars.
One of their accusers, star of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles Tracy Tutor, 48, joined nine other women in making claims of sexual assault to the New York Times in July.
Seven of the women, including Tutor, said they believe they were drugged before being raped by either Tal, 38, or the younger twins Oren and Alon, 37.
She claimed she shared a drink with Oren at a cocktail party in 2014 and blacked out before a friend found her in the restaurant’s bathroom with Oren and pulled her away.
She told the NYT she has no idea what happened to her, adding: ‘Staying silent for so long has been damaging on many levels, and remembering now what happened feels debilitating.’
Tracy Tutor, 48, star of Million Dollar Listin Los Angeles, was one of 10 women who claimed they were sexually assaulted by the brothers in an expose earlier this year
The Alexander twins, 37, were accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman together in 2012 at Sir Ivan Wilzig’s castle in the Hamptons in one of the complaints against them
Alon and Oren Alexander at Sir Ivan’s Medieval Madness Birthday Bash For Model Mina Otsuka At His Hamptons Castle [on a separate occasion to the alleged rape]
Kate Whiteman, one of the civil plaintiffs, claims Oren and Alon gang-raped her at a gaudy Hamptons ‘castle in 2012 known as ‘Sir Ivan’s castle’.
She said she met Oren and Alon in a Manhattan nightclub in 2012, and claimed they forced her into an SUV at the end of the night before driving her to the Hamptons.
The brothers come from a well-known real estate family in Miami, and their father is top Florida developer Shlomi Alexander.
At a press conference on Wednesday, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said his ‘hope’ was that the action he has taken against the Alexander brothers will spur more alleged victims to come forward.
‘Courage is infectious,’ he told reporters.
‘The defendants used their wealth and positions to create and facilitate opportunities to sexually assault women,’ Williams continued at the press conference.
‘In particular, Oren and Tal Alexander used their prominent positions in the real estate industry to induce women to come to events and parties. At those parties, and sometimes afterwards, the women were sexually assaulted by one or more of the defendants.’