Alexander brothers, top real estate agents, arrested

• Police arrested the Alexander brothers following sexual assault allegations.
• Oren and Tal Alexander are top real estate agents. A third brother was also arrested.
• The brothers earlier denied the accusations through an attorney.

The Alexander brothers — Oren, Tal, and Alon — have been arrested, according to the US Attorney's Office.

Their arrest follows sexual assault allegations by multiple women. Tal and Oren are among the nation's top luxury real estate brokers.

Deanna Paul, a New York attorney for Tal, confirmed to Business Insider that the brothers were arrested in Miami on Wednesday morning but declined to comment further.

The brothers have "strongly" denied any wrongdoing, James Cinque, their New York-based attorney, told Business Insider in September.

"We have asked them not to comment while these matters work their way through the legal system," Cinque said, "but are comfortable that they will ultimately be vindicated."

The FBI started investigating the Alexander brothers after The Real Deal first reported in June that two women had filed civil lawsuits against Oren and Alon earlier this year.

The women, Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel, said the brothers took turns raping them in two separate incidents in 2010 and 2012, respectively. About 10 days after The Real Deal's article was published, another woman, Angelica Parker, filed a lawsuit accusing Alon and Tal of raping her in their Soho apartment in 2012 while Oren watched. In July, a fourth woman, the actor and comedian Renée Willett, filed a lawsuit against Oren, accusing him of drugging and raping her in his Soho apartment in 2015.

Since June, more than a dozen women have said they were raped or assaulted by the three brothers, sometimes in tandem. Business Insider spoke to four women who described being assaulted or feeling coerced into sexual encounters, including one who said Tal, now 38, raped her in Las Vegas in 2017.

Business Insider's investigation found that it was an open secret in wealthy social circles for years that the Alexander twins, 37, and their older brother Tal, mistreated women.

Oren and Tal started their real estate careers at Douglas Elliman before launching their own brokerage, Official, in 2022. Alon works for the family's security company in Florida.

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