Growing up in northern Miami, female high school classmates of twins Alon and Oren Alexander lived by two golden rules.
If you ever saw them at a party, never leave your drink unattended – and under no circumstances be left in a room alone with them.
Some parents forbid their daughters from even talking to them.
Those unwritten rules began circulating around 2004 after frightening rumors spread through the halls of Michael M. Krop Senior High School during the brothers’ junior year, two former classmates have now told the Daily Mail.
It was alleged that the twins, along with their older brother Tal, were spiking girls with Xanax and raping them at house parties.
Two decades later, similar claims would form the chilling backdrop to a federal sex-trafficking trial in Manhattan, where jurors heard six weeks of harrowing testimony about women being drugged and brutally raped by Oren, Alon, Tal or all three brothers at once.
On Monday, they were found guilty on all counts and now face the prospect of life in prison.
‘The first rumor I heard was that two of them had raped a girl from my class,’ one of the twins’ former classmates alleged to the Daily Mail, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
‘All of a sudden, that girl stopped coming to school, and from that point on, it was like, if you ever see them at a party, keep your drink held and don’t be alone with these guys.’
A second classmate said whispers of similar alleged incidents continued to spread. But for many months, the stories remained rumors.
Then, shortly before the twins graduated in the summer of 2005, a video of Alon and Oren having sex with a female classmate allegedly began circulating around the school.
The video allegedly showed the brothers ‘taking turns’ with the girl, who appeared heavily intoxicated, the second classmate told the Daily Mail.
The brothers allegedly bragged about ‘running a train’ on her.
In the years since, at least five women have come forward with accusations against Oren and Alon and their older brother Tal, alleging they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers while they were in high school.
None of those allegations featured in their federal sex trafficking trial and the brothers and their attorneys have maintained that any past sexual encounters were all consensual.
In 2004, Oren and Alon allegedly locked a girl in a bedroom at a party where Oren assaulted her, the New York Times reported. The incident was reported to police, but the girl declined to press charges.
Another woman told the Wall Street Journal that all three brothers tried to assault her at a home in 2003, pinning down her arms and legs before she managed to escape. She recalled seeing a camcorder in the room.
Alon and Oren were also interviewed by police in 2003 after a 14-year-old freshman was allegedly gang raped by a group of boys who called it ‘running a train,’ according to records. They were not charged with any related crime.
Then last month, another accuser came forward to the Times, alleging she was raped by Tal and four other boys at a house party in either late 2002 or early 2003 when she was just 13. At that time, Tal would have been around 15.
The woman said she was invited to a home in the wealthy enclave of Bal Harbor, where the Alexanders lived, and handed a shot of vodka. Her body quickly went weak and her memory turned hazy, she claimed.
The anonymous accuser, now 36, said she remembers being dragged down a hallway, her clothes ripped off as she lay weak and helpless while her attackers grabbed at her body. In the darkness of her memory, she recalled seeing a flashing red light and believes a camera may have been recording.
‘That experience has haunted my entire life,’ she told the Times.
An attorney for Oren claimed there was no truth to the allegations.
For all the rumors, accusations and alleged videos, it would take more than two decades before the brothers faced any consequences.
All three were considered among the most popular students on campus at Krop – at least among the boys. Oren and Alon, with their dark hair and chiseled jawlines, were handsome. Tal, who was a year older, was a budding tennis star.
They came from a wealthy family, drove Range Rovers, went clubbing with fake IDs and threw the biggest parties.
‘They were part of the classic rich clique,’ one classmate said.
‘They wore designer clothes, hung out with the other richest kids and made sure everyone knew they came from money. They acted as if the rules didn’t apply to them and they were untouchable.’
The twins graduated from Krop in 2005 and went their separate ways. Oren headed to the University of Colorado Boulder and Alon enrolled at the University of Maryland, while Tal had already left to study at Hofstra in New York.
Images from the twins’ yearbook were shared with the Daily Mail. Responding to a prompt asking about his most memorable moment from high school, Oren wrote: ‘Riding my first “choo-choo” train.’
Those familiar with the allegations now interpret the remark as a possible sinister reference to the ‘running train’ gang rapes they were suspected of carrying out.
After college, Oren and Alon followed Tal to New York, where he had started his own real estate brokerage firm, Luxury Living, specializing in rentals in downtown Manhattan.
Eventually, Oren and Tal joined brokerage giant Douglas Elliman, while Alon opened a New York branch of the family’s private security firm, Kent.
Oren and Tal quickly established themselves in the lucrative world of ultra-luxury real estate, buying and selling properties for the top one percent.
They bragged that the secret to their success was enjoying the same lifestyle as the super-rich. Their social media showed yachts, private jets, lavish parties and mansions in the Hamptons.
In 2010, Oren briefly flirted with reality TV fame, auditioning for Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York spin-off.
‘I had him come up to one of his properties in a fancy car and get out and go on dates and stuff like that,’ casting director Angela Weingrad told New York Magazine in 2024.
Oren made it to the final handful of candidates but was ultimately not cast because he lacked charisma.
‘He really wanted to be on the show,’ Weingrad said.
Back at Elliman, the brothers’ reputation in New York’s luxury real-estate world was beginning to soar.
In 2018 they helped Kanye West find a $14 million Miami apartment he bought for his then-wife, Kim Kardashian. The following year, they sold a Manhattan penthouse to hedge fund manager Ken Griffin for $238 million, the most expensive apartment ever sold in the US.
But behind the glossy social-media posts and multimillion-dollar deals, troubling rumors persisted.
Barbara Wagner, a public relations executive who worked with Douglas Elliman for more than a decade, said the rumors surrounding the brothers were an open secret.
‘I didn’t do anything with the information because it was hearsay and I had no way to know if it was true at the time,’ Wagner told the Daily Mail. ‘The claims were shocking, but I believed them.’
A woman who works in New York’s luxury real estate market told the Daily Mail’s Tom Leonard this week that everyone knew the brothers were ‘as creepy as f**k.’
‘We all heard rumors, but no one could prove anything. No one would talk because they had so much money and threatened lawsuits,’ she said.
‘Women realtors hated doing business with them. There was an open secret that you didn’t travel with them and never found yourself alone with them.’
Three other sources who worked with or for Douglas Elliman told the Daily Mail they had also heard rumors involving alleged drugging and rapes.
One claimed he reported the allegations up the chain of command at Elliman but was punished for doing so.
A second claimed her own complaints about the brothers’ behavior were ignored.
‘It felt like they were being protected because they were the top earners,’ the male employee said.
Douglas Elliman has been contacted for comment. A spokesperson for Elliman previously claimed the company never received any complaints of sexual assault or harassment concerning the Alexanders.
Tracy Tutor, an LA real estate broker and star of Million Dollar Listing LA, came forward last week to accuse Oren of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2014. He denies the claim.
In a lawsuit, she said she was flown to New York by Douglas Elliman for an industry event and had dinner with Oren, during which she was handed a drink and blacked out.
Her friend later found her ‘completely out of it’ in a men’s bathroom stall with Oren, kissing and groping her.
Tutor said she woke up naked the next morning in someone else’s hotel room, bleeding, with no memory of how she got there.
Jessica Cohen, an award-winning Douglas Elliman agent, told the Times in 2024 she woke up in a hospital in 2010 covered in vomit after attending a birthday party with Tal, Oren and Alon.
Weeks later, she said Tal approached her at another party, took a drink from her hand and warned her she needed to be careful about protecting people’s reputations – a remark she interpreted as a threat.
For years, the allegations remained little more than whispers among brokers in New York’s luxury real-estate world.
In the summer of 2024, the dam finally broke when The Real Deal reported that two lawsuits had been filed in New York accusing Alon and Oren of rape.
Dozens more allegations followed, including claims against Tal.
The brothers denied any wrongdoing and their attorneys have consistently argued that the lawsuits are a ‘transparent attempt to create headlines’ and ‘cash in’ on the brothers’ success.
Federal prosecutors soon launched an investigation before all three brothers were arrested in December 2024 and charged in a sex trafficking conspiracy spanning between 2008 and 2021.
The charges involved six adult victims and two underage girls, aged 16 and 17.
Prosecutors had attempted to admit testimony from two women regarding allegations dating back to the brothers’ high school years in 2002, but the testimony was barred by the judge.
Their case went to trial in late January. Over six weeks, jurors heard testimony from 11 accusers describing graphic allegations of rape and sexual assault.
The jury reached its verdict on Monday, convicting the brothers on all counts. They now face the possibility of life behind bars.
The verdict has been celebrated by some, but former classmates say they cannot help wondering how many women might have been spared if the warnings circulating in their high school hallways two decades ago had been taken seriously.
‘They could and should have been stopped years ago,’ one said. ‘I just hope that now they go away for a very long time.’
