Friday marked the conclusion of Week Three of the Alexander brothers’ trial, and alleged victims of the brothers have continued to come forth in court to testify to allegations of being drugged and assaulted by them.
Once at the top of the luxury real estate market and co-owners of Official Partners, Tal and Oren Alexander, as well as their ex-security executive brother, Alon, now face sex-trafficking charges from the federal government.
Week Three of the trial featured testimonies from alleged victims as well as a woman who claimed that she had witnessed two of the brothers raping a woman in the Hamptons.
Prosecutors also sought to illustrate how the brothers used various drugs in their manipulations of women, while the defense continued to try and poke holes in witnesses’ testimonies.
The trial is expected to continue through the end of the month, and the brothers could face 15 years to life in prison, if convicted. Read on for some of the biggest takeaways from this week in court.
Underage Aspen woman testifies
A woman named Maylen Gehret gave her testimony this week, claiming that Alon Alexander drugged and raped her while in Aspen, Colorado, when she was just 17 years old. After meeting Alon at a now-closed bar called Bootsy Bellows club, Gehret said she and a friend accepted an invitation to what was characterized as an after-party with Alon and his twin, Oren, The Real Deal reported.
The young women were then brought by the twins to an empty hotel room with two beds. Before leaving the bar, Gehret said she had noticed her head feeling really heavy and difficult to hold up. Once they got to the hotel room, Gehret said Alon proceeded to penetrate her with his fingers “hard” in the bathroom, which caused her to bleed.
Gehret said she was finally able to leave after handing over her phone to Alon, who used it to follow himself on Instagram and send a message from Gehret’s account that said, “hey babe.”
Gehret is one of the women who sued the brothers in 2024.
During the second week of the trial, prosecutors sought to reveal the brothers’ extensive means of acquiring drugs in advance of trips with women, which they then allegedly used to incapacitate them and rape them. Texts, emails and messages on social media between the brothers and other men showed them working to acquire MDMA, Ambien and GHB in advance of such trips.
The brothers’ defense team has continued to characterize such encounters as hookups that turned sour, while also working to try and discredit alleged victims by finding discrepancies in their testimonies.
An alleged victim in the Hamptons
Lindsey Acree also testified this week to being raped in 2011 by Tal when she was 25 years old after being invited to a rental property in the Hamptons.
At the property, Acree started to feel “heavy” and “zombie-like” after drinking part of a glass of wine that Tal handed her prior to sitting with Tal and a group in a hot tub. Eventually, Tal invited Acree to the home’s sauna, where she said he pinned her down before another man came into the sauna.
She then remembered the men leading her into a gym inside the home after an unclear amount of time had passed. At that point, Acree continued to feel weaker, and she said she ultimately felt “paralyzed.” Tal left the room and returned with a tripod, Acree said, and after setting it up, she recalled Tal and the other man laughing as they raped her.
The next morning, Acree said Tal told her it was time for her and her friend to leave. In an email Acree sent to her mom around that time, she described the trip as “a good time,” but that the two men she was with behaved like “assholes.”
Deanna Paul, a defense attorney, questioned Acree about what she saw as inconsistencies in her story between when Acree first shared it with The New York Times in 2024 and later when she shared information with the government.
First witness to an alleged rape testifies
A woman named Avishan Bodjnoud also testified this week to witnessing Tal and one of his brothers raping another woman when she was invited to a party in the Hamptons where they were present in 2009.
Bodjnoud said she remembered seeing Tal, one of his brothers and a couple of other men pulling a woman by her wrists from inside the home to the property’s backyard, where she then saw Tal and either Oren or Alon raping the woman in the jacuzzi. At that point, Bodjnoud heard the woman screaming while she also heard the brothers “getting pleasure,” she said.
Bodjnoud said in court that she was “terrified” at the time but did not call the police, in part because the man who had invited her to the property, David Rabello, told her she had embarrassed him and warned her that the Alexanders were powerful and well-connected. Before leaving the property the next morning, Bodjnoud wrote “Rapists!” in eyeliner on one of the property’s doors.
The defense attorneys pressed Bodjnoud on the initial tip she had sent to the FBI in 2024 when she heard the brothers had been arrested. In that email tip, Bodjnoud had said she “couldn’t see” the attack, but “could hear it,” but Bodjnoud asserted in court that she had not shared all the details from her recollection of that day in her initial email.
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