Alexander brothers each get 30 years in prison for sex trafficking

New York – Three brothers convicted of exploiting their wealth and access to luxury real estate to drug and rape dozens of women were sentenced on Tuesday (Wedneday AEDT) to 30 years in prison.

US District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced the punishment for Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — after 11 accusers spoke in court. Some of the women choked up as they described how the assaults stole their innocence and left them haunted by nightmares and fearing men.

“It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was,” one woman, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said as she stood at a lectern just feet from the brothers in a Manhattan courtroom.

Twins Oren and Alon, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40, were convicted in March of sex trafficking.

None of the brothers testified during the trial, but each spoke Tuesday before they were sentenced.

Oren Alexander addressed the packed courtroom first, saying, “I am not here to discount what they have said,” referring to the women.

He said he and his brothers came of age at the height of hook-up culture and, looking back and now as a father, he regrets many of the things he said about women at that time. However, he insisted that they never broke the law.

“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We never trafficked anyone for sex and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” he said.

Tal Alexander also denied that he drugged or raped anyone. He asked the judge to be assign him to same prison as his brothers; saying their parents, both 70 years old, hope to visit them every weekend, which might be difficult if they’re at different lock-ups.

Alon Alexander said he, too, has evolved from his regrettable past, noting that not a single woman has accused him of wrongdoing in the eight years he’s been committed to his wife: “Over time, that became my life: work, home, children, parents, community.”

The accusers who spoke in court – and another whose statement was read by a prosecutor – were among at least 70 women who prosecutors say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the last two decades in posh locales including the Hamptons on Long Island and in Aspen, a Colorado.

AP