Tracy Tutor indicts Oren Alexander as jury deliberates federal case
The luxury real estate agent and “Million Dollar Listing” star alleged she was drugged by Oren Alexander and sexually assaulted by him and another unnamed man at a 2014 Douglas Elliman recruiting event.
Luxury real estate agent and Million dollar listing Los Angeles star Tracy Tutor has filed a lawsuit against Oren Alexander, alleging sexual assault and human trafficking, as the ex-real estate agent awaits the jury’s verdict in his federal sex trafficking case.
When the allegations about the Alexander brothers came to light in 2024, Tutor had revealed this The New York Times that she believed she had been taken advantage of at a real estate cocktail reception for top producers.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York, Tutor alleged that she was flown from Los Angeles to New York by Douglas Elliman for a networking reception of top agents at The Skylark as a recruiting effort to join the firm. The reception was reportedly hosted by former company executives Howard Lorber and Dottie Herman. The NYT first reported on Tutor’s lawsuit.
Inman has reached out to Douglas Elliman for comment.
After dinner, Tutor claims she accepted a drink she hadn’t ordered from anyone and blacked out shortly afterwards. The lawsuit states that Tutor recently learned that she had walked away from the table at some point during dinner, and that Elliman agent Cory Weiss went looking for her.
According to the complaint, Weiss found Tutor in a men’s bathroom stall “where Oren kissed her, his shirt open and Ms. Tutor acted ‘crazy’.” The complaint later adds that “based on information and belief, [Oren] touched her in private parts for his own sexual gratification.”
Tutor claims that Weiss then confronted Oren, realizing that Tutor was acting out of character, brought her back to the dinner table and asked someone to arrange for Tutor to come back to her hotel room that evening. Weiss himself left the dinner after being “shocked by the interaction,” the complaint says, and “concerned about his own job security,” without fully realizing that Tutor had been drugged.
However, Tutor claims she instead woke up the next morning in an unknown hotel room after being sexually assaulted. She called Weiss, who advised her to call security, who, like Weiss, came to the room to assist her.
“Later that day, Mr. Weiss managed to recover Ms. Tutor’s purse, somehow from Oren’s assistant, who, based on information and belief, was a woman named Sarah Williams,” the complaint adds.
Jason Goldman, an attorney for Oren, said Tutor and her lawyers timed the “salacious” trial for “maximum media impact, choosing the eve of jury deliberations in the federal trial, despite the fact that the allegations are more than a decade old and have already been publicly aired.”
“We are confident that the jury will focus on the evidence presented in court, and not on opportunistic litigation,” Goldman added.
The lawsuit claims Tutor never fully learned what happened that night and suppressed his memory of it. However, when allegations came to light in the press against Oren and his brothers Tal and Alon, Tutor’s complaint says, “the painful memories came flooding back.” It was only by reviewing those memories with Weiss in 2024 that Tutor was able to remember more of what happened, according to the lawsuit.
The complaint further alleges that in 2024, after Tutor was mentioned in a NYT article in which a victim of Oren, a strange man who is not named in the lawsuit, called Tutor while he was on a family vacation and left her a voicemail that read, “I’m sorry.”
The teacher demands a jury trial.
Closing arguments in Oren, Tal and Alon’s federal trial concluded Wednesday, in which prosecutors argued the brothers used a “playbook” to traffic and abuse dozens of women over several years.
The defense team, meanwhile, argued that prosecutors were trying to equate “obnoxious” and inappropriate behavior on the brothers’ part with criminality. The brothers have continued to deny all allegations against them.
The jury began its deliberations on Thursday and a verdict in the case could come as early as Friday.
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