Ana Claudia Chacin
Earlier this summer season, brothers Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander had been accused by greater than 60 victims, together with a minor, of rape and sexual assault in alleged incidents courting again to 2009. The Miami and New York Metropolis-based actual property moguls pleaded not responsible to intercourse trafficking expenses. Their attorneys, who consider that the accusations are being orchestrated by the alleged victims’ private damage legal professionals, have questioned why it took so lengthy for the ladies to come back ahead with their claims. Miami Herald reporter Ana Claudia Chacin, who has spoken to a number of of the alleged victims, shares her insights on the matter with In Contact Investigates‘ Kristin Thorne.
“I’ve discovered that the tales that they’re telling now are eerily related,” she says of the victims’ allegations towards Oren, 39, and his 38-year-old twin brothers, Alon and Tal. “You understand, one thing the prosecutors within the FBI case mentioned early on [is] that these are tales of girls being both drugged or consuming an excessive amount of alcohol, to a state the place they’re fully incapacitated and unable to have consent.”
In early June, federal prosecutors accused the brothers of working collectively to drug, sexually assault and rape greater than 60 alleged victims between 2009 and 2021. The brothers allegedly promised girls luxurious experiences in alternate for intercourse. Their authorized workforce has denied the allegations.
“We’ve spoken to various girls from throughout a number of phases of their lives, girls in highschool, girls I spoke to simply yesterday, somebody who skilled one thing in 2011, so this may have been when [the brothers] began out in New York as actual property brokers after faculty,” Chacin continues.
As for why the alleged victims are coming ahead now, years after the alleged incidents occurred, Chacin says she thinks it was a domino impact, with many ladies changing into “extra empowered” to talk out as others shared their tales.
“It simply takes one or two to begin it from the start, for ladies to really feel empowered, to come back ahead,” she provides.
Chacin continues, “The lady I used to be chatting with yesterday was saying how this occurred to them 20 years in the past, and so they had been holding these reminiscences in little bins, she says, for therefore a few years, for a large number of causes, together with the disgrace that they may have felt on the time, concern of not being believed. And it actually took these two girls going ahead with lawsuits towards them, naming themselves in these lawsuits, for different girls to begin eager to share their tales and both file civilly or converse to the press.”
Kristin Thorne
Chacin additionally says that she spoke to a girl who did attempt to report her assault to the police, however she was allegedly “dismissed as a result of they advised her that she had willingly consumed marijuana that she thinks was laced, and so she didn’t have a case. She requested for a rape equipment, [but] they didn’t give it to her on the hospital.”
In a June interview with In Contact Investigates, the Alexander brothers’ attorneys Edward O’Donnell and Joel Denaro advised Thorne that they consider the victims’ claims could also be fabricated.
“It’s no coincidence that for 10, 15 years, not one particular person had ever accused these brothers of ever doing something inappropriate, and abruptly, at one time, in the identical precise window body, each single particular person that you just’ve heard of that has accused the Alexander brothers of assaulting them got here by way of a private damage lawsuit attempting to sue them for cash,” O’Donnell mentioned.
He continued, “How is it doable for all of those girls to come back out at the very same time? Each single one in all ’em is suing for cash. None of them went to regulation enforcement. They solely went to non-public damage legal professionals, and that’s how regulation enforcement received concerned.”
“There’s zero proof in any way that the assaults occurred,” O’Donnell added.
An legal professional for one of many alleged victims mentioned in an announcement to In Contact, “It’s each predictable and pathetic that counsel for the Alexanders is name-calling the victims as opportunistic for looking for civil cures after being [allegedly] trafficked and raped. Absent a time machine the place the victims might change their destiny and erase the horrors they suffered, the choice stays holding the Alexanders financially accountable for the lives they’ve ruined.”
In July, the authorized workforce for Oren and Alon Alexander filed a movement to dismiss a lawsuit one of many girls filed in New York. The movement accommodates flirty messages and nude photos the lady despatched to the brothers after she mentioned she was allegedly attacked.
The Alexander brothers are scheduled to go to trial in January 2026.
