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Prosecutors Seek Life Sentences for 'A-Team' Real Estate Brothers Convicted of Serial Rape

Federal prosecutors say the Alexander brothers, once celebrated as real estate's glamorous "A-Team," drugged and raped dozens of women over two decades and "demand a lifetime term of imprisonment." Their lawyers are asking for 15 years.

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The Weekly Observer

OCT 15, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
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Prosecutors Seek Life Sentences for 'A-Team' Real Estate Brothers Convicted of Serial Rape
The Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan, home of the Southern District of New York, where the Alexander brothers will be sentenced Oct. 27. Photo: Ajay Suresh / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Federal prosecutors told a Manhattan judge this week that three brothers once celebrated as the real estate industry's glamorous "A-Team" should spend the rest of their lives in prison, filing a sweeping sentencing submission that accuses Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander of running a two-decade campaign of drugging and raping women across New York, Miami and beyond.

The filing, submitted Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, lands ahead of an October 27 sentencing hearing before Judge Valerie E. Caproni, more than seven months after a jury convicted all three brothers on all ten counts they faced, including conspiracy, sex trafficking and sexual abuse. Prosecutors say the scale and violence of the brothers' conduct "demand a lifetime term of imprisonment," and are also seeking a combined $4.75 million in fines.

According to the government's filing, investigators identified at least 70 women who say they were drugged and sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers, with the earliest alleged assaults dating back to roughly 2001 and 2002, when the brothers were still in high school. Eleven of those women testified at the brothers' trial, describing how a drink handed to them by one of the Alexanders left them disoriented and unable to resist before an assault. Prosecutors characterized the brothers in their filing as men who felt entitled to take what they wanted from any woman who accepted an invitation to a private flight, a party or a club table.

A Probation Office recommendation that dwarfs a life sentence

Court filings reviewed by The Real Deal indicate the federal Probation Office went even further than prosecutors, recommending the judge impose 15 years for every victim attributed to each brother — a formula that would translate to roughly 180 years each for Alon and Tal Alexander and 195 years for Oren.

The brothers, who built a business selling multimillion-dollar listings to celebrity and ultra-wealthy clients before their December 2024 arrests at their Miami properties, have been jailed ever since. Alon also ran the family's private security firm, according to court filings.

"AT NO TIME DID ALON, OREN OR TAL RAPE OR SEXUALLY ASSAULT ANOTHER PERSON," their attorneys wrote, urging the court to see the brothers as "human beings, not the monsters falsely portrayed in Court and in the media."

Defense lawyers, in their own submission filed a day earlier, asked Judge Caproni to impose 15-year terms — the mandatory minimum on the trafficking charges — arguing the trial evidence was "remarkably weak" on key points and that the judge's own evidentiary rulings caused "overwhelming prejudice." The brothers acknowledge having been "insensitive toward the feelings of certain women at certain times" but continue to maintain their innocence of any crime, according to NBC News.

The brothers were convicted in March following a trial that drew national attention to New York's luxury property world, with prosecutors previously saying their office had heard from more than 60 women reporting similar conduct even before the full scope of the investigation emerged, according to the Associated Press. Separate rape charges the brothers face from Florida state prosecutors in Miami-Dade County remain on hold pending the outcome of the federal case.

Defense attorney Marc Agnifilo, who represents Oren Alexander, has said the defense will appeal the convictions regardless of what sentence Caproni imposes. For now, the brothers' fate rests with a judge who will weigh victim-impact statements, the competing sentencing memos and the Probation Office's recommendation before the October 27 hearing. Whatever she decides, it is expected to be one of the most closely watched sentencings to come out of a New York sex-crimes prosecution in years.

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