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Sexual assault allegations towards Oren Alexander, main luxurious agent and co-founder of The Alexander Group and Aspect-backed Official, and his twin brother, personal safety government Alon Alexander, have surged within the week since information broke that that they had been sued by two separate ladies for allegations of assault and rape relationship again to 2010 and 2012.
At the very least 28 alleged victims have come ahead to make related claims of rape and sexual assault towards the brothers, in keeping with lawyer Evan Torgan who filed the preliminary lawsuits towards the Alexanders, The Actual Deal reported. The primary lawsuits have been filed by alleged victims Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel.
These preliminary lawsuits, one among which additionally names recording artist Ivan Wilzig as a defendant, have been filed by New York State’s Grownup Survivors Act, which eliminates the civil statute of limitations for sexual assault lawsuits. Alleged victims could file fits by March 2025.
“I’ve spoken to approximately 15 people who say to me they were raped by the Alexander brothers, one [brother] or more, at various times, in New York City, South Beach and in other states as well,” Torgan, who’s a accomplice at Torgan Coooper + Aaron, informed The Actual Deal, later updating that determine to twenty-eight individuals who had reached out to the agency.
Torgan additionally informed The New York Publish he’s talking with new victims every day.
Oren Alexander and his lawyer, Jim Ferraro of Ferraro Regulation Agency, didn’t instantly reply to Inman’s requests for remark. Beforehand, Ferraro referred to as the allegations “a shakedown.”
Oren and Alon seem to have a historical past of receiving allegations of sexual assault, in keeping with a lawsuit that was filed in Florida in 2013, The Actual Deal reported. The twins later ended up suing an nameless weblog writer, of newsmiamiflorida.blogspot.com, in addition to different message board posts, for publishing “false and defamatory statements” that claimed the brothers dedicated rape.
In 2014, a choose granted a short lived injunction, which required the writer to delete any posts relating to these allegations, in keeping with The Actual Deal. Since then, the weblog has been taken down and the case was dismissed in 2016.
Some traces of the weblog nonetheless exist on the web as screenshots, nonetheless, on the social community Reddit.
In truth, a number of threads on Reddit with curiosity teams primarily based out of New York and Miami echo allegations made within the lawsuits, asserting that Oren and Alon have engaged in a sample of sexual violence towards doubtlessly dozens of girls for years.
In a thread that started one yr in the past with the query, “Oren and Alon Alexander. Any info on these guys??” within the r/MiamiInfluencerTalk group, a number of Reddit posters spoke concerning the brothers’ historical past of preying on ladies over the course of greater than a decade.
One nameless Reddit person wrote, “I’m assuming that this thread exists because we’re all fellow victims looking for answers. I’ve always known that there’s had to be dozens and dozens of us. They scrub everything but it seems it may be more difficult for them to do it here. I think we all deserve to support each other and see how many of us are really out there.”
One other nameless poster locally alleged in a separate thread that the brothers had “Been Drugging & Gang raping girls for over a decade.”
The person continued, “Someone told me, if you really put the word out there, you would find girls in the 100’s that they have done this too. It’s Absolutely heartbreaking … They are monsters that belong in prison.”
In one other Reddit group, r/NYCinfluencersnark, a number of Reddit customers responded to information concerning the lawsuits coming to gentle, with multiple explicitly saying their alleged conduct has been “an open secret” in each New York and Florida for years.
Because the instances progress, a story appears to be rising concerning the excessive privilege the Alexanders have benefitted from through the years by their social connections and wealth. The three boys — Alon, Oren and Tal — grew up below the wing of their father, well-known spec house developer Shlomy Alexander, who launched them to the actual property commerce and helped them achieve a foothold within the trade.
Whereas rising their careers at Douglas Elliman, Oren and Tal grew to become shut with huge names throughout the trade and within the luxurious group at-large, together with Elliman Actual Property Chairman Howard Lorber, Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, mannequin Adriana Lima, businessman Alex von Fürstenberg, developer Alex Witkoff and others.
These connections and wealth have afforded them alternatives to see-and-be-seen in excessive locations, like Artwork Basel Miami, the Milken Institute World Convention, and high-profile society gatherings like these at Sir Ivan’s Hamptons occasion citadel. (The citadel can also be named as an alleged location of rape in one of many lawsuits.)
Not surprisingly, in addition they reside in lavish properties — Tal has an residence on the supertall 432 Park Avenue (the place he additionally sells models) and Oren owns a luxurious condominium at the Perigon in Miami Seaside together with his spouse, Kamila Hansen, a trend mannequin.
On Tuesday, within the wake of the lawsuits coming to gentle, Oren Alexander introduced on Instagram he would step down from his position at Official, the brokerage he co-founded with the twins’ older brother, Tal Alexander, in 2022.
“Out of respect for our customers and trusted colleagues, I have made the difficult decision to take a pause from my work at Official as I shift my focus to fighting these baseless civil claims,” Oren acknowledged on Instagram.
Tal Alexander was not named within the lawsuit complaints.
“I am proud of what we are doing here,” Torgan informed The Publish. “And proud of all the people who have come forward with their story — especially Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel who did it with great bravery.”
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