Brothers Sentenced

Tal Alexander, 40, and his twin brothers, Oren and Alon, 39, were convicted on all ten counts in March, CBS News reported. Thirty years each. A federal judge handed down that sentence Tuesday to the three brothers, convicted of drugging and raping dozens of women over more than a decade. U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni also ordered each brother to serve 10 years of supervised release. She fined Oren and Alon $300,000 apiece and Tal $350,000, ABC News reported. Restitution amounts are still to be set.

Prosecutors said the brothers used wealth and charm to lure victims to parties in New York, Miami, Aspen and the Bahamas, then slipped drugs into their drinks before raping them, according to the BBC. Before founding their own Manhattan brokerage, Official, in 2022, Tal and Oren built a real estate career selling luxury properties to clients including Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan, the BBC reported. More than 70 women came forward with accounts of assault, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa said in a sentencing memo cited by ABC News.

Caproni called the brothers' conduct monstrous. "Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives," she said, according to the BBC. Defense lawyers had asked for the 15-year minimum, telling the court the brothers had become devoted fathers. Caproni was not swayed. "You did not have to stand up and say you've never raped anyone," she told them, ABC News reported. "That's a lie and you know it."

Twelve women gave impact statements at Tuesday's hearing in Manhattan, CBS News reported. One, using the pseudonym Isa Brooks, told the court she was raped by Tal and Alon at age 16. "The reverberations of this have lasted half my life," she said. Another victim, Katie Moore, told the court the brothers offered no remorse. "We are not disposable," she said. "And they are not untouchable."

Each brother must complete sex offender treatment in prison, a judge-ordered condition of the sentence. All three continued to deny the charges in court Tuesday. Still, their attorneys wrote in a sentencing memo, cited by ABC News, that the men would keep fighting the convictions, "confident in the notion that one day they will be free to live out their lives with their children and families."