Alexander brothers' parents and former employers accused in new lawsuit

Claire Healy and Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald on Feb 28, 2025

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MIAMI — The parents of three brothers accused of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women — Shlomo and Orly Alexander — are named as defendants for the first time in the latest civil lawsuit filed against the wealthy Miami men.

In the lawsuit filed on Friday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, five women say they were assaulted and raped by one or more of the brothers, Oren, Alon or Tal Alexander. One woman said she was also sex trafficked.

“Defendants Shlomo Alexander and Orly Alexander enabled the Alexander Brothers by providing them with money, property, and other resources that were used to sexually abuse, assault, batter, drug, and rape women including plaintiffs herein,” the lawsuit reads.

Also named as defendants are the family’s security company, the real estate firm where they worked, and that firm’s former CEO.

The three brothers were arrested in December 2024 in their Miami Beach homes after being indicted by the FBI on sex trafficking charges. Along with the new lawsuit, the brothers face over 20 civil suits accusing one or more of them of rape or sexual assault.

Attorneys for the brothers in the federal and civil cases have said that their clients are innocent.

The suit, which names three women and two “Jane Does,” claims that Kent Security, where Alon was a vice president, “had a duty” to stop him from sexually abusing women. Along with Douglas Elliman, where Oren and Tal worked, the former employers “owed a duty to control the acts and conduct of the Alexander Brothers to prevent foreseeable harm.”

“All defendants herein enabled, facilitated, participated in, and/or were part of the Alexander Brothers sex trafficking ring that was based in New York, New York, but also including sexually abusing women in the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, Miami, and other places,” the lawsuit reads.

Oren started working as a broker with Douglas Elliman in 2008 and Tal joined him in 2012. They both left the firm in 2022 when they started their own real estate firm, called “Official.”

For Howard Lorber, former CEO and chairman of Douglas Elliman, the lawsuit states he “knew or should have known” that Tal and Oren “had the propensity and did in fact sexually abuse, assault, batter, drug and/or rape women.”

The Alexander brothers are being held in a Brooklyn federal detention center without bond. The window for victims to bring charges under a New York statute is set to close on Friday, Feb. 28th.