Sexual Assault Allegations Made Against Oren Alexander

Broker Oren Alexander, formerly of Douglas Elliman, now with Official, and his twin brother, Alon, an executive at a private security firm, were accused of rape in two lawsuits filed last March, as reported The real deal.

The twins' older brother Tal, who co-founded Official with Oren, was not named in the lawsuits or charged with assault. The lawsuits were filed before the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act, a state law exempting the civil statute of limitations on sexual assault claims.

The brothers' lawyer denied the allegations.

Here's everything we know.

Who are Oren and Alon Alexander?

Oren spent more than a decade at Douglas Elliman, where he and his brother Tal were known as boy prodigies who became one of the country's top brokers, closing what they say was more than $7 billion in real estate transactions, including a number. of record sales, while they were still in their twenties. (They sold Ken Griffin the $238 million penthouse at 220 Central Park South in 2019, then the most expensive listing in the United States)

The brothers gained a reputation for enjoying a lifestyle as lavish as that of their clients. Oren posted stories on social media of luxurious adventures (electric foil boarding in Malibu, harpoon hunting in French Polynesia) and bragged about making deals in St. Tropez and Aspen. “Oren and Tal have a knack for being at the right event at Art Basel, at the right camp at Burning Man, and at the right party at the Oscars,” Jay Parker, managing director of Douglas Elliman's brokerage firm, once said in Florida. Los Angeles Times.

In 2022, Oren left Douglas Elliman to found Official with Tal. The Alexander brothers grew up in Miami, where their father, Shlomi Alexander, was a developer specializing in high-end homes.

Alon is listed as president of Kent Services, a security company founded by his parents, for which his mother, Orly, is listed as chief financial officer. Kent's website says its clients include many of New York City's major real estate groups, including JDS, Fortis Property Group, Douglaston Development and Stellar Management.

What do the lawsuits claim?

The first complaint, filed by Rebecca Mandel, claims she first met Oren and Alon in 2009, when she was 18, at a now-closed Meatpacking District nightclub called SL. She saw them at different events and parties several times over the next few months, enough to consider them acquaintances. The suit claims that when Mandel ran into them again at SL in September 2010, Alon insisted on buying her a drink: “Notably, this was the first drink the plaintiff consumed that evening. Shortly afterward, according to the suit, she began to feel foggy and she believed “Alon had intentionally drugged” the drink “with an unknown substance.” The trial continues that the twins then suggested he go to a party with them; They got into a taxi that took them not to a party but to the twins' apartment in Chelsea, on West 26th Street. Mandel alleges in the suit that once inside the door, the twins held her down and took turns assaulting her. “The defendants then changed positions, violating her several times,” the complaint alleges.

In a separate lawsuit filed by the same law firm the same day, Kate Whiteman claims Oren and Alon assaulted her on May 26, 2012, at a Hamptons mansion known as Sir Ivan's Castle. (Its owner, Ivan Wilzig, was also named in the negligence suit, not as a defendant, and declined to comment. The real deal.)

Like Mandel, Whiteman claims in the suit that she knew the brothers from social events and that Oren often texted her trying to get her to go out with him, but she always refused. Per the lawsuit, however, she confirmed she was going to the Hamptons for Memorial Day weekend when he texted her to ask.

This weekend, as she left Dune, a nightclub in the Hamptons, the twins forced her into an SUV and refused to release her or tell her where they were going. The lawsuit alleges they went to the mansion, where she was locked in the garage and told “she had to change into a sarong.” As she attempted to leave, the pursuit continued, a security guard forced her back into the garage. She was then taken to a large bedroom where “she was sexually assaulted, abused, raped, pinned, groped, harassed, beaten and fondled by the defendants,” according to the complaint.

Both women claim they suffered physical and emotional harm as a result of the attacks, and the lawsuits further claim they were not the only women assaulted by the twins: “For years, the defendants engaged in a similar pattern of schemes, actions and behaviors with different women. .”

What do the brothers say?

The brothers declined to comment. THE Real deal, but a lawyer for the Alexanders, attorney Jim Ferraro (a longtime friend of Oren), denied the allegations, calling the Whiteman a “total indictment.”

Ferraro said The real deal he has “very compelling evidence” that Whiteman's story is “completely fabricated.” Whiteman previously filed a summons, but not a criminal complaint, against the brothers in 2022, which was unsuccessful. Ferraro called the Mandel case “very bizarre.”

What are the large-scale projects that Official is affiliated with?

​​The company handles sales and marketing for a Rosewood condo at JDS's Raleigh and Dolce & Gabbana residences, both in Miami. Previous projects in New York include 432 Park Avenue and 111 West 57th Street. It recently opened an office in Aspen, and in addition to New York, it is active in the Hamptons, Miami, Los Angeles and Orange County.

And after?

The deadline for defendants to respond to the lawsuits is August 19.