Highlights from week three of the Alexander Brothers trial

Friday marked the conclusion of week three of the trial of the Alexander brothers, and alleged victims of the brothers have continued to appear in court to testify to allegations that they were drugged and assaulted by them.

Tal and Oren Alexander, once at the top of the luxury real estate market and co-owners of Official Partners, and their ex-security executive Alon, are now accused by the federal government of sex trafficking.

Week three of the trial featured testimony from alleged victims and from a woman who claimed she witnessed two of the brothers rape a woman in the Hamptons.

Prosecutors also tried to illustrate how the brothers used various drugs in their manipulation of women, while the defense continued to try to poke holes in witnesses’ testimony.

The trial is expected to last until 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 the court this week.

Underage Aspen woman testifies

A woman named Maylen Gehret gave her testimony this week, claiming that Alon Alexander drugged and raped her while she was 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 brother, Oren. The real deal reported.

The young women were then taken by the twins to an empty hotel room with two beds. Before leaving the bar, Gehret said she noticed her head felt very heavy and was difficult to hold. Once they were in the hotel room, Gehret said Alon then penetrated her “hard” with his fingers in the bathroom, causing her to bleed.

Gehret said she was finally able to leave after handing her phone to Alon, who used it to follow herself on Instagram and send a message from Gehret’s account that read, “Hey honey.”

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 resources acquiring medicines prior to traveling with women, who they then allegedly used to incapacitate and rape them. Texts, emails and social media messages between the brothers and other men indicated that they were in the process of obtaining MDMA, Ambien and GHB prior to such trips.

The brothers’ defense team has continued to characterize such encounters as deals that turned sour, while also attempting to discredit alleged victims by finding discrepancies in their testimonies.

An alleged victim in the Hamptons

Lindsey Acree also testified this week that she was raped by Tal in 2011 when she was 25 years old after being invited to a rental home in the Hamptons.

On site, Acree began to feel “heavy” and “zombie-like” after drinking part of a glass of wine that Tal handed her before sitting in a hot tub with Tal and a group. Eventually, Tal invited Acree into the home’s sauna, where she said he held her down before another man entered the sauna.

She then remembered that the men led her to a gym in the house after an unclear amount of time had passed. At that point, Acree continued to feel weaker, and she said she eventually felt “paralyzed.” Tal left the room and returned with a tripod, Acree said, and after she set it up, she remembered 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 mother around that time, she described the trip as “a fun time,” but that the two men she was with acted like “jerks.”

Deanna Paul, an 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 that she witnessed Tal and one of his brothers rape another woman when she was invited to a party in the Hamptons they attended in 2009.

Bodjnoud said she remembered seeing Tal, one of his brothers and a few other men pull a woman by her wrists from inside the property to the backyard, where she then saw Tal and Oren or Alon rape the woman in the jacuzzi. That’s when Bodjnoud heard the woman screaming, while also hearing the brothers “getting some fun,” she said.

Bodjnoud said in court that she was “terrified” at the time but did not call police, partly because the man who 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 building the next morning, Bodjnoud wrote: “Rapists!” in eyeliner on one of the doors of the building.

Defense attorneys pressed Bodjnoud on the initial tip she sent to the FBI in 2024 when she learned the brothers had been arrested. In that email tip, Bodjnoud had said that she “couldn’t see” the attack but “could hear it,” but Bodjnoud claimed in court that she had not shared all the details of her memory of that day in her first email.

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