Tal and Oren Alexander are staying in jail.
Along with Oren’s twin brother Alon, the two former luxury real estate brokers were denied bond Wednesday on the federal sex trafficking case against them. The three brothers allegedly engaged in a scheme to systematically drug and rape dozens of women dating back to 2010.
Judge Valerie Caproni of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York handed down the ruling in a detention hearing on Wednesday. The news was first reported on X by journalist Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press.
In the Florida sex trafficking charges against the brothers, a state judge granted bail to Oren and Alon, pending the ruling at the federal level. The ruling Wednesday supercedes the state ruling and the brothers will not be released.
In previous bond hearings, the Alexanders had offered exorbitant sums of money and lucrative property as their bond. Oren and Alon had been granted bail on the sums of $3 million and $2 million, respectively, with both amounts secured by their father’s home.
Things didn’t go as well at the federal level. Tal and Alon had previously been denied bond by a federal judge, even as Tal offered $115 million. They countered by offering “any amount,” which was also rejected.
The brothers will be detained and face trial at a later date. The charges against them carry a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence, with a guideline of life in prison.
Tal and Oren Alexander built a lucrative business representing celebrity and ultrawealthy clients in residential real estate transactions, starting at Douglas Elliman in 2010 before later founding Official Partners, a luxury brokerage affiliated with Side.
But last summer, three civil suits surfaced against one or more of the brothers for alleged drugging and raping of women, and the FBI arrested them in December on state and federal sex trafficking charges. Multiple women have filed civil suits since their arrest. The Alexanders have denied all charges.
Side has also sued Tal, Oren and Official Partners for allegedly defaulting on a $4.6 million loan extended to the brothers in 2022, a case that’s been complicated by their incarceration. Official Partners shuttered in the months following the civil suits over the summer. Tal and Oren claim Side manufactured the event of default on the loan.
