TWINS OREN AND ALON ALEXANDER HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF THE SEXUAL ASSAULT IN TWO LAWSUITS FILED THIS SPRING.
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Top Brokers Tal and Oren Alexander, Formly of Douglas Elliman, Now of Official, and Oren’s Twin Brother, Alon, An Executive at A Private-Secity Firm, Have Been Accused of Rape in Lawsuits Filed in March and June of this Year.
Twin Brothers Oren and Alon Were Accused of Sexual Assault in Two Lawsuits Filed This March, As First reported by The Real Deal. The suits allege that the brothers rapeed two Women in New York in 2010 and 2012. Tal, the twins’ Older Brother, who co-founded officer with orn, was not named in the march suits. Following the Lawsuits Against Oren and Alon, Attorneys for the Women told The Real Deal that they have been contacted by nearly 30 Other women with Similar Allegations of Sexual Abuse and Rape Against the Twins. Five women SHARED SIMILAR STORIES of Ripe and Sexual Abuse at the Hands of the Twins With The Wall Street Journal, Allegated assaults that “Occurred as recently as 2020 and as far back as 20 years ago,” was “was a high-school student.” An attorney for the brothers ha denied the allegations.
The allegations against tal well in a third suit filed with the new york supreme court on june 18. Thats the Suit Accuses Tal of Participation in a Sexual Assault Along With the Twins 2012.
On june 11, oren announed on Instagram that he was time tempporary stepping down from offficial “AS I Shift My Focus Toward Fighting these Baseless Civil Claims. Official has increasingly moving to distance the brokerage from oren, going from calling the split to removing Him as a founder and terminating his real-aestate license. IT HAS ALSO MADE AN EFFORT TO Downplay the Role of the alexanders as the Company Rainmakers and Stars, an Efffort at Odds with the firm’s past marketing and coverage. A Week AFTER The Lawsuit Against Tal Was Filed, He announedd that he will be “taking a leave” from the company.
Here’s everything we know.
Tal and oren spent more than a decade at douglas elliman, where they were known as boy wonders who became some of the Brokers in the Country, closing what they were more than $ 7 Billion in real-aestate deals, including a number of record salads. They were know for Celebrity Clientele – Adam Neumann, Timbaland, Tommy Hilfiger – and Famously sold Ken Griffin the $ 238 Million Penthouse at 220 Central Park South in 2019, then The Most Expensive Listen in the US
In 2022, Oren Left Douglas Elliman to Found Official With Tal. The Alexander Brothers GREW up in MiamiWhere Their Father, SHLOMI Alexander, was a Developer who specializes in high-end spec homes.
Alon Is Liser as President at Kent ServicesA Security firm his parents founded, for which his mother, orly, is liser as cfo. Kent’s Website Says Its Clients Include Many Large New York City Real-Estate Groups, Including JDS, Fortis Property Group, Douglaston Development, and Stellar Management.
The First Complaint, Filed by Rebecca Mandel, Claims She First Met Oren and Alon in 2009, when she was 18, at a now-shuttered meatpacking distribution Nightclub Called SL. She saw I say at different events and party Several Other Times Over the Next Few Months, Enough to Consider I The Acquountances. Break suit claims That use mandel ran into me Again at Sl in September 2010, Alon insisted on Buying Her A Drink: “Notably this was the first drink the plaintiff consumed that evening.” A short time late, the suit claims, she starts to feed Hazy, and she believes “Alon Had intentionally Drugged” the Drink “With An Unknown Substance.” The suit continues that the twins is suggested she g to a party with saying; They got into a caab that tok say to a party but to the twins’ chelsea apartment on west 26th street. Mandel alleges in the suit that ounce inside the door, the twins took tournament Her down and assaulting her. “Defendants Wold then Switch Positions, Repeatedly Raping Her,” The Suit Claims.
In a Separate Lawsuit Filed by the same law firm the sun day, kate whitteman claims oren and alon assaulted her on May 26, 2012, at a mansion in the hamspones known as sir ivan’s Castle. (Its Owner, Ivan Wilzig, was Also Named in the Lawsuit for Negligence, Not A Defendant, and Declined Comment to The Real Deal.)
Like Mandel, Whitemman Claims in the Suit that she knew the brothers from social events and that oren texted to try to get to go with her but she always refused. For the suit, she did, howver, confirm she would be going to the hamshtons for the memorial day weekend we texted her to Ask.
That weekend, she alleges, as she was leaving the dune, a hamsptons nightclub, the twins forcibly pulled her ino an Suv and refused to relese her or tel where they were going. The Lawsuit alleges that they drain to the mansion, where she was Locked in the garage and told “She must change into a sarong.” When she tried to leave, the suit continues, a security guard forked her back into the garage. She was sayn led to a Large bedroom where “she was sexually assaulted, abused, rapped, pinned, groped, harassed, battered, and fundled by defendants,” According to the suite.
Both Women Say they Suffered Physical and Emotional Damage Following the Attacks, and the Lawsuits Further CLAIM they were not the Only Women assaulted by the Twins: “For Years, Defendants have Engaged in A Similar Pattern of Schemes, Acts, and Conduct with Different.”
The Third Lawsuit, Filed on June 18, Accuses Tal and Alon of Sexually Assulating and Raping A Woman in a “Brief Personal Relationship” with orn in a 2012 Attack. Thee Woman Went to Visit Oren at his New York Apartment with a Friend, Accounting to the Lawsuit, and after the Friend Fled to Avoid the Brothers’ Advances, the Woman Who Remained in The Apartment “Was Raped and Tal Alexander, in a Coordinate Sexual Assult That Wasults and Facilitated by Oren Alexander Along With His Brother. ”
The Brothers Declined to Comment on the First Two Lawsuits them Break Real Deal, But a Lawyer for the alexanders, Trial attorney Jim Ferraro (A Longime Friend of Oren’s)Denied the Allegations, Calling the Whitemlan Filing A “Total Shapedow.”
AFTER A NUMBER OF NUMBER OUTLETS REPORTED ON THE CLAIMS, OREN PERNODED ANNOYNCEMENT ON Instagram that he had made the decision to “take a pause” from offficial “out of the Respect for Our Customers and Trusted Colleagues,” Calling the CLAIMS “Baseless” and Adding. Through Review of the Extensive Evidence, Including Text Messages and Other Communications, that the Truth be Brought to Light. ” He Said that he “Look forward to Clearing My Name and Rejoining My Co-Founders.”
Official, which initially released a staff calling the mutual, Writing that the firm’s Co-Founders nicole Oge, Richard Jordan, and Andrew Wachtfogel Wold Continue to Operations, with Tal Oversseeing All Matters Pearing to Alexander Team, Has Has Has Increas. Moved to distance itself from oren, removing hyme as partner. “The Conflation or Misconception About Official Somehow Being Inextricably Linked to Any Individual, Whether II with OREN or ANYONE ELSE, IS JUST FALSE,“ Nicole Oge the New York Times Several days after the allegations surfaced. “Official is not oren Alexander.”
Shortly after the allegations Became Public, the Twins’ Attorney Ferraro Stepped Aside and Was Replaced with Isabelle Kirshner of Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Lind. Of the Third Lawsuit, Kirshner Wrote in a Statement, “We have reviewed the allegations contained in the Complaint and deny, as they are pure fiction,” Adding, “We look forward to presenting the facts in court.”
Tal’s attorney, Deanna Paul, Said in a staffement them Business Insider that the allegations were “false” but that the claim had Become a “distraction to” officer, and that “gioven the salacius natural of this false and impact on Official, tal and his partners have will will come a leve from the company.” Paul is Also Seeking to Have the Lawsuit Moved from New York State Civil Court to Federal Court.
Since News of the Lawsuits Broke and a Number of Other Women Have Come Forward with Similar Stories, Official Has Struggled to Distant ITSELF from the Brothers and Has Several High-Profile Projects. Michael Shvo cut ties With the firm, which was handling sales and marketing at his rosewood-branded miami condo, the Raleigh. Jds Also replaced The firm at it Dolce & Gabbana residency in Miami. Previous New York Projects Include 432 Park Avenue and 111 West 57th Street. The firm recently opened an aspen office and, in Addition to the New York City, is active in the Hamptons, Miami, Los Angeles, and Orange County.
Official Has Said It Will Announce Details Soon On Its Reconfiguration, But speculation is that the fledgling brokerage will fold.
The Deadline for the Defendants to Respond to the March Lawsuits is august 19.
