The Alexander brothers were each sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday for a sex trafficking scheme in which they drugged and raped women for more than a decade, and they are reportedly hoping Donald Trump will set them free.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni handed down the sentences to Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander in a packed Manhattan courtroom. Each brother also received 10 years of supervised release, a period after prison when a probation officer monitors them and they must follow strict rules. Alon and Oren were each fined $300,000, and Tal was fined $350,000. With the time they face, all three will be in their late 60s before they walk out.
“Your conduct was monstrous,” Caproni told them.
Prosecutors asked for life in prison. The defense asked for 15 years, the lowest sentence the law allows for sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Caproni landed in between and called a life sentence “draconian.” The Probation Office had recommended 15 years for every victim each brother raped, which would have added up to 180 years for Alon and Tal and 195 years for Oren.
Before the judge ruled, 11 women addressed the court for nearly 90 minutes. They described the trauma of what happened to them and the years of pain they still carry.
Oren and Tal Alexander were once among the biggest names in luxury real estate. Known as “The A Team,” they sold high dollar homes to celebrities and the ultra wealthy in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Alon, Oren’s twin, ran the family’s private security company. In 2021, Oren represented Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in their $24 million purchase of a waterfront lot on Indian Creek, the exclusive island enclave in Miami nicknamed the Billionaire Bunker.
That connection to the Trump family is part of why the pardon talk started almost immediately. In March, days after a jury convicted the Alexander brothers on all counts, The New York Times reported that people representing them had contacted a lobbyist and a Jewish criminal justice organization, both with histories of working on clemency cases. Clemency is the power Trump has to shorten a sentence or wipe out a conviction entirely. The Tzedek Association, a group that has been involved in past Trump clemency grants, reportedly declined to help because of what the brothers were convicted of.
In September, the Times reported that attorney Alan Dershowitz had been working for the Alexander family for more than a year as the brothers pursued a pardon. Dershowitz is a longtime Trump ally who defended him during his first impeachment trial and also represented Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, the same day as the sentencing, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s press office posted that the brothers paid Dershowitz up to $1 million to try to get them pardoned. That figure has not been independently confirmed. The brothers’ trial attorneys told the Times they were not aware of any pardon effort.
Trump has used his pardon power on a long list of famous names during his second term, including reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and rapper NBA YoungBoy. No pardon has been granted to the Alexander brothers, and the White House has not publicly addressed the request.
The case against them was brutal. Prosecutors said the brothers started sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002, while they were still in high school in Miami. Over the years, according to the government, they developed a pattern of luring women with promises of parties and luxury trips, then drugging and raping them. Sometimes more than one brother took part in the same assault.
“As the evidence makes clear, the defendants are serial rapists who violated woman after woman and girl after girl for years upon years,” prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.
Jurors saw some of that evidence with their own eyes. Investigators found hard drives in a closet in Tal’s apartment filled with sexually explicit videos and photos of the brothers with women who prosecutors said were drunk, naked and unaware they were being filmed. One video showed Oren adjusting a laptop camera before getting into bed with an incapacitated 17 year old girl and raping her in 2009.
The jury convicted all three Alexander brothers of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Alon and Tal were also convicted of sex trafficking a minor. Alon and Oren were convicted of aggravated sexual abuse by force or intoxicant and sexual abuse of a physically incapacitated person.
The brothers continue to deny everything. In their sentencing memo, their lawyers wrote that none of them ever raped or sexually assaulted anyone. They described the men as “dedicated husbands and fathers” who had lived very different lives in the years before their December 2024 arrest in Miami and asked the judge to see them as human beings rather than monsters.
The 30 years may not be the end of it. Oren and Alon still face state criminal charges in Florida, and all three brothers are named in a long list of civil lawsuits from women who say they were drugged, sexually assaulted or raped.
