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A Manhattan judge Tuesday slammed the twisted Alexander brothers as “a lot Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’’ and “monstrous’’ for using their status as high-flying real-estate scions to drug and rape scores of women — then sentenced them each to 30 years behind bars.
“My view of the defendants was that they were a lot like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” US District Judge Valerie Caproni told Tal Alexander, 40, and his 39-year-old twin brothers Oren and Alon in a federal courtroom filled with women the trio sexually assaulted after luring them into their luxe orbit over more than a decade.
“I don’t refer to people as monsters because even rapists can change, but your conduct was monstrous, “ the judge said, citing how victim after victim described the brothers as “sadistic, masochistic, sexual predators.
“Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives,” the judge said as several of the men’s victims glared at the twisted siblings from the courtroom gallery.
Caproni even noted in a scathing commentary on the men how no old or close friends of theirs ever bothered to write a letter of support to the court for them, with most of the submitted notes — designed to try to sway the judge toward leniency — only came from pals of the siblings’ parents.
The once-powerhouse brothers faced a minimum of 15 years in prison and up to life behind bars.
The heinous sex attackers were handed the heavy sentences after 11 of their victims confronted them in court during an all-day hearing.
“Why did you do this? I just don’t get it. I don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred towards women,” said Brooklyn artist Lindsay Acree, who choked back tears as the privileged onetime Big Apple and Miami mover-and-shakers sat stoically, wearing tan jail jumpsuits.
Acree testified during the brothers’ bombshell trial earlier this year about being drugged and raped by real-estate bigwig Tal in 2021.
“There is no way to calculate what this trauma has cost me,” added victim “Bela Koval,” a Ukrainian model who testified about being “paralyzed” by a drugged drink as Oren raped her inside a $13 million Sag Harbor mansion where the brothers hosted parties.
Jurors heard chilling evidence of the siblings sexually assaulting women — with the fiends sometimes working together — at gaudy Hamptons mansions, inside New York City apartments, on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado, and during a Caribbean cruise between 2008 and 2021.
Prosecutors with the US Southern District of New York say the brothers’ pattern of sexual assaults dates back even earlier, to 2001 and 2002, when they were still in high school in Florida.
But Tal and Oren — powerhouse realtors who catered to celebs such as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and helped sell hedge-funder Ken Griffin’s record-smashing $240 million Midtown penthouse — and their security-firm brother Alon all maintained their innocence Tuesday even after previously being guilty of various sex trafficking charges.
“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We have never trafficked anyone for sex, and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” Oren insisted in court.
The married fallen realtor-to-the-stars blamed his foul-mouthed persona on growing up listening to shock-jock Stern and in a “hook-up culture.”
“I was partying too much and sleeping with too many women in those years,” Oren said.
Tal choked up as he recounting the moment he was indicted back in 2024 after nightmarish allegations about the trio frist emerged in civil lawsuits.
“It almost feels like an atomic bomb has been dropped on my life and destroyed everything in its wake,” the disgraced property bigwig said.
All three brothers plan to appeal, and had asked the court in vain for the minimum sentence of 15 years in prison.