Inside The Alleged ‘Serial Sexual Violence’ Of 2 Luxury Real Estate Agents And Their Brother

Federal authorities allege that for nearly two decades, the three Alexander brothers worked together and relied on their substantial wealth and connections to traffic and rape dozens of women, often drugging them and sometimes involving other men.

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Rebecca Mandel said she first met Oren Alexander and his twin brother Alon Alexander at a nightclub in Manhattan’s trendy Meatpacking District when she was 18 in 2009. From then on, she’d regularly run into the brothers at various high-end restaurants, clubs and social gatherings; Oren was already making a name for himself in the luxury real estate market though he was only in his early 20s and would later attribute his success to living the lifestyle of the wealthy clients he hoped to attract.

One night in 2010, at the same nightclub they’d first met, Mandel and the twins struck up a conversation, and Alon insisted on buying her a drink, according to a lawsuit she filed earlier this year in New York. Though it was her first drink of the night, she said she quickly began to feel physically and mentally impaired. Then the twins urged her to come along to a party they said their friend was hosting at an apartment in Chelsea, the lawsuit said.

When she walked into the building, Mandel knew something was wrong.

“The hallway was silent,” her complaint read. “There was no music, no voices, nothing that would indicate that a party was being held at this location.”