In a packed federal courtroom in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday, the three Alexander brothers, donning tan jail uniforms, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and other federal charges related to raping women for more than a decade.

Dozens of women came forward in lawsuits and to law enforcement with rape allegations over the past two years in Miami Beach, New York City, the Hamptons and Mexico — accusations that began when the men were in high school in Miami in the early 2000s. Many believed they had been drugged.

“I know what it’s like to be reduced to nothing by these people,” Katie Moore, who testified during their federal trial under this pseudonym, told the courtroom on Tuesday. “Our humanity meant nothing, but we are not disposable, and they are not untouchable.”

U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni, presiding over the seven-hour hearing, sentenced twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 39, and their older brother, Tal Alexander, 40, to 30 years each in prison.

Caproni said their conduct was “shameful and degenerate,” and said she thought life sentences are “draconian.” She said she would not describe them as “monsters,” because she believes everyone has the ability to change.

“Your conduct was monstrous,” she said.

The brothers all continued to assert their innocence in personal statements to the judge.

Tal and Oren were among the nation’s top real estate brokers selling multi-million dollar homes in Miami and New York. Alon previously worked for his family’s security company. In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.

The men’s parents, who have been accused in a lawsuit of enabling sex trafficking, were not present in the courtroom. But the 12 women who spoke Tuesday morning, seated with family and friends, took up five rows.

They said their lives had been irreversibly impacted, they were traumatized and spent years in therapy. The brothers avoided looking at them. Deanna Paul, an attorney for Tal, said the men had been advised not to.

“What Tal Alexander did to me was a life sentence I never asked for,” said Maya Miller, one of the women in the federal trial, on Tuesday.

The brothers were also fined $50,000 per conviction, with additional court fees - $300,000 for each of the twins, $350,000 for Tal. Oren was also fined $50,000 for producing pornography. Restitution to any victims has yet to be decided.

Since their arrests, the brothers have been detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, notorious for violent conditions and holding high profile individuals such as rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. They were held without bail.

The twins still face state rape charges in Miami, and their trial has been delayed as prosecutors awaited the federal case sentencing in Manhattan. Oren is charged with two rape cases, including one that stems from an alleged assault at Alon’s Miami Beach condo on New Year’s Eve in 2016. Alon is also charged in that alleged incident. Tal has not been charged in the state cases.

Assistant State Attorney Natalie Snyder recently said she was ready to file the paperwork to request their transfers for trial as soon as they were sentenced.

“It would not be appropriate to comment as these cases are still open and pending,” said a spokesperson for the State Attorney’s Office.

In 2024, a woman named Kate Whiteman filed a civil lawsuit against the twins, alleging they raped her in 2012. After her lawsuit was reported in the Real Deal, dozens more women also accused the men in over 30 civil, state and federal cases of systematic rape and sex trafficking.

More than 70 women came forward, federal prosecutors said, “many if not all” with accusations of rape or assault. During their five-week trial earlier this year, 11 women testified that they were sexually assaulted or raped by at least one of the brothers from 2009 to 2021.

They said the men used their wealth, and social status to entice young women to parties in mansions and on yachts. Some women said the men drugged them; Amelia Rosen was 17, and did not know she was raped until investigators showed her a video Tal made of the assault.

“They had a playbook,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Jones said in March, after the men were found guilty.

A Miami Herald investigation found a pattern of drugging, raping, and videotaping their abuse of girls began decades earlier – when the brothers were as young as 15 and still in high school in Miami.

The three brothers grew up in Miami and graduated from Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School near Aventura. Tal graduated in 2004; the twins in 2005.

In interviews, six women told the Herald they were raped or assaulted by one or more of the brothers between 2002 and 2004. One woman went to police, but the brothers appear to have faced no consequences. The brothers, through their spokesmen, denied the allegations.

Convicted on all 10 counts

On March 9, a 12-person jury found the brothers guilty on all 10 counts, some of which applied to multiple brothers, and some were individual charges.

All three of the brothers were convicted on Count 1, the main sex-trafficking conspiracy charge, which involved multiple women and girls.

For Count 2, Tal was convicted for sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion of Lindsey Acree, who said she was raped by Tal and another man in the Hamptons in 2011.

All three brothers were convicted of Count 3 and Count 4, involving sex trafficking of Bela Koval and inducing her to travel for unlawful sexual activity.

Alon and Tal were convicted for sex trafficking of a minor – Isa Brooks, who said she was raped in the Hamptons by Alon, Tal and some of their friends when she was 16 and a senior in high school.

“How is it that my life felt over before it began?” Brooks said in a statement she read to the courtroom Tuesday. She said it took 10 years before she had a boyfriend.

“The old me had died,” she said. “I grew deeply distrustful.”

Tal was convicted on two more counts involving sex trafficking and inducing Maya Miller to travel for unlawful sexual activity.

Twins Alon and Oren were convicted of aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse of an incapacitated Rhonda Stone while on the 2012 Groove Cruise from Miami to the Bahamas.

Finally, for the sexual exploitation of minor Amelia Rosen, who said she was drugged and raped by Oren and a friend of his in Manhattan in 2009 when Rosen was 17, Oren was convicted.

Oren filmed the assault while Rosen lay limp on his bed, and emailed the video to the friend. Investigators later found it in a hard drive at Tal’s apartment, and said that Rosen didn’t know what had happened to her until investigators found the video and identified her. Prosecutors played parts of the video for the jury during trial.

Kate Whiteman, the woman who first filed a lawsuit against the men, died in late 2025 at age 45 in Australia. A representative for the Coroner’s Court of New South Wales said that her death was not suspicious, and declined to share further details out of respect for her family.

During her statement on Tuesday, Brooks spoke about Whiteman, and the impact of her lawsuit.

“I wanted to attempt to honor her,” she said. “I wish she could see what bravery, what her bravery made possible.”

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