The only surprising thing about the Alexander brothers being convicted of sex trafficking is justice having taken so long.

On second thought: Is it surprising?

This federal trial made one conclusion quite clear: Tal and Oren Alexander, long among America’s most exclusive real estate brokers, and their brother Alon, a high-level security exec, benefited from a vast network of people and businesses willing, at the very least, to allegedly look the other way.

The Alexander brothers perpetuated gang rapes — with twins Oren and Alon, 38, often raping their victims together, an unthinkable perversion — along with drugging women into submission, and using access to their celebrity clientele and luxurious properties, to lull unsuspecting women into a false sense of safety.

Recordings of these savage assaults were made and kept by the Alexander brothers as trophies. One alleged victim, Tiffany Marina Rodriguez, 30, has also filed a civil suit against Miami nightclub Basement, located in The Miami Beach EDITION hotel.

According to her lawsuit, Rodriguez, then 21, was invited to the club to ‘hang out’ with the Alexander brothers. Rodriguez says she was drugged and taken to Oren’s apartment, where she was ‘pinned beneath the arms of a horizontally positioned office chair’ as the twins, one at a time, raped her.

Rodriguez says, in her lawsuit, that she suffered such grave injuries that she spent three days in the hospital and attempted suicide.

She also claims that management at the Basement knew all about the Alexander brothers drugging women at the club, then taking them to a second location to rape them.

The only surprising thing about the Alexander brothers being convicted of sex trafficking is justice having taken so long. On second thought: Is it surprising? 

The Alexander brothers perpetuated gang rapes – with twins Oren and Alon (pictured) often raping their victims together, an unthinkable perversion – and benefited from a vast network of people and businesses willing, at the very least, to allegedly look the other way.

‘The former VIP Director observed unconscious women routinely being carried from the nightclub by Basement Miami’s security,’ the lawsuit says. ‘Management was aware of these patterns […] yet continued to facilitate the scheme.’

Bravo reality star Tracy Tutor of Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles is among the multiple civil litigants alleging that she, too, was drugged and raped by Oren Alexander — who, with Tal, 39, worked at Douglas Elliman at the time — at a business dinner in New York City in 2014.

A male colleague found Tutor in the bathroom with Oren, allegedly ‘out of her mind’, according to her lawsuit. That colleague claimed to then reported the incident to a top Elliman exec, but Tutor alleges nothing was done, and that it was an open secret that the brothers were drugging and raping women.

Five sources told the New York Times in 2024 that multiple Elliman execs knew all about the brothers. An Elliman spokesperson acknowledged that ‘an incident had been raised casually and confidentially’ – but claimed that no official HR complaints had been made.

So, the bigger question now seems to be: How many powerful people looked the other way?

After all, reports of the Alexander brothers assaulting women date back to high school.

Yet their proud mother sat in court, draped in fur, while two of the brothers’ wives also showed up in support — despite the testimony of 11 women against them and despite two crimes against girls under the age of 18.

Only Tal Alexander’s wife, Arielle, refused to appear in court. She filed for divorce soon after his arrest in 2024, having just given birth to their first child — a girl.

It seems to have been known that the Alexander brothers — again, since high school — were serial abusers and grave dangers to women everywhere.

So let’s just call this very sick system what it was: A rape industrial complex.

And one that was seemingly similar, in size and scope, to those that enabled and encouraged Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, with God knows how many other monsters benefitting.

For the record, Sean Combs was convicted of far lesser crimes, but we all saw that video of him kicking and beating Cassie Ventura in the elevator bank of a hotel, then dragging her back to his room to participate in a ‘freak-off’.

And not one showbiz peer, save 50 Cent and Wendy Williams, has ever said a word against Combs. Not so much as an iota of outrage over what Combs did to Cassie.

Little wonder some women didn’t go to police. The Alexander brothers — like Combs, like Weinstein and Epstein — made billions of dollars for very powerful people.

Among those people and entities that civil suits now allege ‘knew or reasonably should have known’ about the brothers: Douglas Elliman and its former CEO Howard Lorber; Kent Security, where Alon was president and, according to his bio, ‘consulted on the security infrastructure for two Super Bowls and three major cities’ (how terrifying); the Basement nightclub in Miami; Marriott, which owns the Miami EDITION hotel housing Basement; and parents Shlomo and Orly Alexander — who, along with the brothers’ wives, were remonstrated in court for disrupting proceedings, and warned not to talk or stare down witnesses.

After all, reports of the Alexander brothers assaulting women date back to h igh school . Yet their proud mother sat in court, draped in fur, while two of the brothers’ wives also showed up in support. (Pictured: Alon with wife Shani Zigron).

And that’s despite the testimony of 11 women against them and despite two crimes against girls under the age of 18. (Pictured: Oren and wife Kamila Hansen).

The brothers’ parents Shlomy and Orly also stood by their boys.

‘Respect the institution and what it stands for,’ a court marshal said, later removing one supporter.

Respect the institution. What a joke. The Alexander family clearly feels they’re above the law.

Well, these proud parents may now see their three sons sentenced to life in prison.

Whether the punishment will fit the crimes remains to be seen. Sentencing is scheduled for August 6.

The more terrifying question: What other powerful, serial rapists are hiding in plain sight — ‘open secrets’, as it were — and who is protecting them?