Even as teenagers at high school, the Alexander brothers liked to cut a dash. The trio – twins Oren and Alon, and their slightly older brother Tal – and their rich friends would arrive at parties in Miami in a convoy of luxury cars with DVD screens on seat-backs playing pornography, including recordings of their own exploits.

By the time the night was over there would often be more X-rated video footage for them to share – courtesy of girls impressed by the Alexanders’ good looks, roguish reputation and flashy Florida wealth.

The sons of Shlomi and Orly Alexander, Israeli-born millionaire property developers and security company owners, the clannish trio were well on their way to carving out fame and fortune as millionaire jet-setting playboys and lords of the party scene.

While Alon, a lawyer, worked as an executive at his parents’ private security company, Tal and Oren rose to become the most successful celebrity estate agents in the US.

Carefully cultivating their public image – to the extent that they became celebrities themselves and even earned a New York Times profile on how they spend their Sundays – they established themselves as the pre-eminent brokers to the stars, the ‘closers’ who could push through a multi-million dollar sale.

Showbusiness clients included Liam Gallagher, Lindsay Lohan, and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. They also acted for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.

In 2018, the pair – who called themselves the ‘A Team’ and had a reputation for using aggressive and unscrupulous business tactics – helped Kanye West find a $14 million Miami flat he bought for his then wife, Kim.

The following year, the brothers ‘referred’ the Wests’ new Miami neighbor, billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, to a mansion near Buckingham Palace, which he bought for £95 million. It was the priciest home sold in London for nearly a decade.

Alon Alexander (left) and his identical twin brother Oren (right) have both pleaded not guilty

Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander (left to right) are facing federal sex trafficking charges in Manhattan court 

Just two days after the deal, the Alexanders completed the sale of a Manhattan penthouse to Griffin, one of America’s richest men, for an eye-watering $238 million (£176million) – making it the most expensive residence in the US.

Asked to explain their golden touch, the A Team liked to point out that they mixed socially with the stars and super-rich who provided their clients. ‘There’s not a person or a client we can’t get to,’ bragged Oren with typical Alexander arrogance. ‘While my nights are late, and some may call me a party boy, it’s all about closing deals.’

Their high living was on show in photos they posted to Instagram and Facebook of themselves on the private jets and super yachts of their billionaire friends.

‘You have to be in Saint-Tropez in July, Aspen in the winter, Hong Kong for Art Basel, Cannes for the film festival, Monaco for the Grand Prix,’ Tal told an interviewer.

There was just one potential cloud on their horizon as Oren acknowledged to Tal in a 2021 text message.

‘We are on top of the game,’ he said. ‘Only thing can bring us down is some hoe complaining.’

His tawdry observation – employing a lurid slang name for ‘whores’ – has proved all too accurate.

After some 60 women went to police with devastating accounts of how the Alexanders used their wealth and fame to entrap, drug and then rape or sexually assault them, the trio now face possible life sentences after going on trial a month ago in New York.

Oren, seen with his wife Kamila Hansen, and Tal were powerful real estate brokers to the stars

Alon Alexander and wife Shani Zigron. The Alexander family has put on a united – and upbeat – display inside the courtroom, attending every day of the trial so far

Oren and Tal rose to become the most successful celebrity estate agents in the US

The offences that have been alleged to span nearly two decades from 2003 to 2021 and come from women who were as young as 13 when they say they fell prey to the Alexanders.

The trial, however, is focusing only on the allegations of eight women, two of whom were underage when they said the brothers abused them at high school.

Helping to explain why the accusations took so long to surface, many victims say they were terrified that the intimidating Alexanders might carry out their threats to hurt or even kill them if they went to police.

Prosecutors say that the trio exploited their wealth to offer ‘the promise of luxury experiences, travel and accommodations to lure and entice women to locations where they were then forcibly raped or sexually assaulted’.

‘Often, the Alexander brothers drugged their victims before assaulting them, preventing them from fighting back or escaping.’

They told the court that the brothers were ‘masqueraded as party boys when really they were predators’.

The trio – Oren and Alon are now 38 while Tal is 39 – deny all 12 separate charges, which include conspiracy to commit sex trafficking; sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and inducement to travel to engage in unlawful sexual activity.

Their lawyers, some of whom represented music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs against similar charges, insist they were only ever involved in consensual sex.

One of the Alexanders’ lawyers reminded jurors they were there to decide a criminal case, not judge an ‘a***hole contest’. If it were the latter, she said, ‘this would be easy – case closed’.

Identical twins Alon and Oren Alexander are pictured at Sir Ivan’s Medieval Madness birthday bash for model Mina Otsuka in 2011

The twins are seen in an image shared in court. Much of the testimony has focused on Memorial Day Weekend in the Hamptons in 2009

The judge has already denied a defense request for a mistrial after the brothers’ names surfaced in the latest tranche of Jeffrey Epstein files. The documents included allegations that the brothers attended parties hosted by the disgraced financier, along with a separate unproven allegation of sexual misconduct involving a minor.

According to their accusers, the attacks were organized with cold efficiency and followed a ‘playbook’.

Prosecutors say the Alexanders would approach attractive women in nightclubs, parties and online via social media and dating apps. Many of them were models or aspiring models. They’d then invite them to parties – sometimes offering to pay their flights and hotels. Often the women would arrive only to discover, too late, that the ‘party’ was a small gathering of the Alexanders with male friends.

The women believe they were given spiked drinks that would largely incapacitate them as the men led them into a bedroom where they’d be undressed and, if necessary forcibly pinioned to the bed. Then, they were sexually assaulted or raped by their abusers in turn – a shocking ordeal whose slang name, ‘running train’, the Alexanders loved to use.

Oren Alexander’s ‘favorite memory’ in his high school yearbook was ‘riding my first choo-choo train’, alleged to be a brag about violent sexual exploits as a teenager 

Those girls and women who were sufficiently conscious to scream at them to stop have said at trial that they were ignored. The brothers would frequently come and watch each other raping their victims or else record it on video, it’s alleged. ‘There were no words needed or directions said,’ recalled a victim. ‘It was very routine for them.’

Jaw-droppingly narcissistic, the brothers reportedly were devoid of human empathy. A 26-year-old model who accused Oren of raping her in his Miami home nine years ago, recalled him telling her in the middle of her ordeal: ‘Stop crying, be quiet, you’re ruining it.’

Afterwards, the Alexanders would barely register what they’d done beyond warning the victim with a knowing smirk of dire consequences if she told anyone.

In court, the famously self-assured brothers have managed to grin at each other and their loved ones in the public benches, although it’s difficult to imagine their bravado nowadays is more than just a front.

They’ve had to listen to testimony from a string of accusers backed by video evidence of behavior that – even after the sordid scandals of Epstein, Harvey Weinstein and Sean Combs – still seems uniquely monstrous.

The trial’s first witness, who used the pseudonym ‘Katie Moore’, told jurors she first met Alon and Tal in 2012 at a party at the New York home of Hollywood star Zac Efron.

Moore, who was a 20-year-old student at the time and who’d accompanied a friend who’d been invited by Tal Alexander, said she took some of the drug ecstasy that Alexander offered her as well as having a couple of drinks.

The group, including Efron (who hasn’t commented on the case) later went to a nearby nightclub where Moore says she suddenly became unsteady and blacked out. She regained consciousness to find herself naked in Alon’s bed, as he, also naked, stood over her.

Moore, who repeatedly became tearful during her testimony, said that when she told him she didn’t want to have sex with him, he laughed and replied: ‘You already did.’ She testified that Alon then raped her, during which Tal walked into the room and spoke to his brother without even acknowledging her presence.

Alon texted her the following day, saying: ‘I had a nice time with you last night.’ Messages shown in court confirmed her claim that she told friends of her ordeal at the time even though she didn’t go to the police until 2024.

Shlomi Alexander lunged at the Daily Mail’s photographer outside Manhattan federal court earlier in the trial

Another witness, ‘Maya Miller’, a pseudonym for a woman who is now a Nevada nurse, testified that Tal raped her as she wept in a shower during a house party at a rented $14 million mansion in the Hamptons in 2014.

Tal, who she’d met on Instagram, flew her and a girlfriend out to Long Island on a seaplane for a pampered weekend but the atmosphere suddenly became rather more uncomfortable on Saturday evening, the court heard.

Tal started plying the women with cocktails but Miller avoided drinking them and remained very much awake, thwarting, she believes, an attempt by some of the men to come into their room and rape them.

However, the next morning, after discovering they were packing and telling her: ‘Is this how you thank me for inviting you to a beautiful home?’, Tal attacked her, she said. After the rape, he wiped himself down with a towel and told her, ‘You wanted that.’

Jurors were shown an email Tal sent to his brother Alon days before the alleged assault, which included photos of Miller and her friend. ‘See below these cheap hookers coming to the Hamptons,’ Tal wrote.

The jury is being shown text messages between the brothers that also suggest they held their victims in utter contempt. They were uncovered by FBI agents who started investigating the Alexanders in 2024 after accusers started to file civil lawsuits against them. The brothers were arrested in December that year and were denied bail.

In a WhatsApp conversation from 2016 that was titled ‘Lions in Tulum’, the brothers and other men referred to ‘imports’ of women to a holiday rental in Mexico. They discussed splitting the costs and which drugs – including the notorious ‘date rape’ drug GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) – to give them.

‘Going to start collecting for the pot to fly bitches down,’ one man writes. Alon replies: ‘There should be a fee per bang and after bang.’

As they fret over whether the unnamed ‘promoter’ of the trip will find sufficiently attractive women, Oren says: ‘Just warn him ur [sic] boys are hungry.’ To which his brother Tal adds: ‘Girls look fresh.’

Later, expressing shock that each woman’s flights will cost $500, Oren comments: ‘That’s more than most of us ever spent on girls. Just want to make sure we get a good ROI [return on investment].’

The jury have also been shown videos of the accused having sex with alleged victims. When they were shown footage that Oren took himself with a 17-year-old who said she was drugged and raped, some jurors shifted uneasily in their chairs or held their head in their hands. Prosecutors presented an email in which Oren forwarded the video to a friend.

The Alexanders say the women’s accusations are part of an attempt to extort millions of dollars from them in civil court. However, some of their accusers have made clear their action has nothing to do with money.

Last week, Maylen Gehret, who told the court she was drugged and raped by Alon Alexander in Aspen, Colo., in 2017 when she was 17 years old, said her father was a billionaire. She said she sued them because ‘they took something from me that I didn’t really want to give. And now I want to take something from them that I know they don’t really want to give.’

Lindsey Acree, who became tearful as she testified about being raped by Tal Alexander and another man in a home in the Hamptons in 2011, said she would ‘never need their money’ but decided to sue after hearing one of the brothers’ defense lawyers call the accusers gold diggers and con artists.

Indeed, Oren Alexander said in his school yearbook – written when he graduated – that his favorite memory from his time at Michael Krop Senior High School was ‘riding my first choo-choo train’.

Tal Alexander (front, blue shorts) and identical twins Oren and Alon (back row) are facing federal sex trafficking charges in Manhattan court; they pled not guilty. Pictured is one of the photographs recovered from Tal’s hard drive

Locals in the smart Miami neighborhood of Bal Harbour where they grew up say parents warned their daughters not to even talk to the cocky teenage trio – who were notorious bullies at school – and, if they ever made the mistake of ending up at a party with them, never to put their drink down.

In adulthood, they left nobody in much doubt about their high testosterone levels, particularly setting their sights on fashion models.

Oren and Alon celebrated their 28th birthday in 2015 with a party at a $50 million mansion in Manhattan’s Upper East Side at which guests were invited to drip hot wax on to the body of a half-naked woman lying on a table. Burlesque dancers wearing dog collars and fishnet tights performed risque acrobatics.

Even their peccadillos during consensual sex were alarming – women said the twins, Oren and Alon, liked to secretly switch places during sex without their partner realizing, using a special door in a bedroom of their New York home.

Although property insiders say there have always been suspicions about the brothers’ womanizing, both the scale and depravity of what’s been outlined in Manhattan Federal Court appears to have taken people by surprise.

Certainly, their family – which has turned out in force at the trial to show their support – may be finding some of the evidence quite difficult as some of them have been spotted leaving the courtroom at various times.

They’ve made clear the three men are nothing like the ‘monsters’ alleged by prosecutors.

That includes Brazilian model Kamila Hansen – now Oren’s wife – who turned up to court wrapped in a huge fur coat. Their relationship ‘began the old-fashioned way – with a pick-up line’, gushed US Vogue in a glossy feature on their 2023 wedding.

‘I was in Las Vegas [in 2018] on a girls’ trip when he approached me [in a hotel lobby] and asked if I was lost,’ trilled Kamila. ‘It was just like that.’

The trial is expected to last until early March, giving Mrs Hansen-Alexander time to consider whether her husband and his brothers are as ‘old-fashioned’ when it comes to other women as she believes.

Additional Reporting: Luke Kenton