Two luxury real estate brokers who police say drugged, raped 40 women denied bail by Manhattan judge

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MANHATTAN, NY- In one of the most bizarre excuses to request a client be released on bail, a Miami lawyer argued Wednesday that accused rapist Oren Alexander should be released since Alexander, newly married and a new father, would no longer engage in orgies, The New York Post reports. 

“My client just had a child. The danger of having an orgy is zero at this point, in jail or out of jail,” attorney Richard Klugh told Judge Valerie Caproni. She wasn’t buying it and denied the request. 

Oren Alexander, along with his twin brother Alon and older brother Tal, were arrested on charges that the three teamed up to drug and rape dozens of women over more than ten years. Caproni ordered that all three remain in jail. 

“There have been no more orgies!” Klugh told Caproni, adding later in the hearing that “the danger of orgy-ing is zero.” 

Caproni said the accused serial rapists pose a danger to the community and are also flight risks–adding that she was not “as sanguine as the defense is” about Oren Alexander’s alleged “shift from a hard-partying sexual predator to a monogamous family man,” The Post wrote. 

“The weight of the evidence is strong,” Caproni said, adding that the “joint fraternal sexual conduct” alleged by the prosecution has been going on “for years.” 

“This was not a one-time party where things went wrong,” she added.  

Prosecutors have interviewed 40 women who claim they were raped by at least one of the brothers. In eight of the encounters, two of the brothers “penetrated” their victims together, federal prosecutors allege. 

The victims said they were drugged in attacks that occurred after Oren, 37, and Tal, 38, both real estate brokers, and their brother Alon lured them in by promising luxury travel and hotels, prosecutors allege. The brothers once boasted of having several celebrity clients, including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. 

In one case, a victim said she “couldn’t feel their limbs” after only drinking half of what was believed to be an alcoholic beverage,” prosecutors told the court. 

He added that the brothers have a pattern of rapes where “they pin their victims down” and then “forcibly have intercourse with them.” 

Caproni denied a proposed $115 million bail package for the brothers after Oren and Alon’s attorneys claimed they took lie detector tests while locked up in Miami and they should therefore be released. 

“So you believe in polygraphs?” Caproni asked Klugh while reminding him that New York courts have long banned such speculative evidence from being introduced at trial. 

“You want it for the press, but it’s not moving me,” Caproni said when another defense attorney, Florida-based Howard Srebnick, again tried to bring up the polygraph tests in which they claimed not to have had sex with women whom they knew were drugged. 

She also slammed Klugh’s claim and branded it as “nonsense” that a woman who was allegedly drugged before being raped by two of the brothers on camera couldn’t be called “incapacitated” because video seized from Tal’s apartment showed her “standing” up after the encounter. 

“If that’s your argument, you lose,” Caproni told Klugh. “That was your argument, and it was nonsense.” 

Moreover, Klugh made the bizarre claim that GHB, a sedating drug that prosecutors allege the Alexanders used to drug and rape the victims, is a “party drug.” 

None of the suspects appeared in court during the hearing. They were allowed to remain in Florida, where two of them face separate state charges. 

However, Caproni ordered the three suspects transferred from Florida to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center so they could be available for their January 29 court date. 

When concerns about conditions at the Brooklyn facility were raised, Caproni told their attorneys that the lockup, notorious for its terrible conditions, has made improvements and added staffing in the past year. 

“They are doing the best they can,” the judge said. 

The brothers’ parents are immigrants from Israel. They co-founded the private security firm Kent Security and were in the courtroom’s gallery during the proceedings. 

Oren and Tal Alexander founded Official, the luxury real estate firm that offers upscale listings in New York City, the Hamptons, Miami, and Los Angeles, in 2022 after getting their start at brokerage behemoth Douglas Elliman. 

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James

I believe the death penalty is in order here! These scum definitely do not believe they have done anything wrong! Oh, we were just having orgies! What a crock!

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