By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-16 00:09:14 | Updated at 2025-01-16 02:47:10
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Accused rapist posh property broker Oren Alexander was denied bail by a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday — after his Miami lawyer argued the married new dad should be released because “there have been no more orgies!”
Florida attorney Richard Kluhe made the bizarre “orgy” claim at a theatric hearing where Judge Valerie Caproni also ordered that Oren’s twin Alon and older brother Tal stay jailed on charges that all three teamed up to drug and rape dozens of women in horrific assaults for more than a decade.
“My client just had a child. The danger of having an orgy is zero at this point, in jail or out of jail,” Kluhe claimed during the three-hour hearing.
“There have been no more orgies!” he argued, adding later in the hearing that “the danger of orgy-ing is zero.”
Caproni found that the accused serial rapists are both a danger to the community and a flight risk — while noting that she was not “as sanguine as the defense is” about Oren’s purported shift from an alleged hard-partying sexual predator to a monogamous family man.
“The evidence against them is strong,” the jurist said as she read her ruling aloud from the bench.
The “joint fraternal sexual conduct” alleged by the feds is said to have happened “for years,” she noted.
“This was not a one-time party where things went wrong,” Caproni said.
Prosecutors said that they’ve spoken to 40 women who claim that at least one of the brothers raped them.
At least two of the siblings “penetrated” their victims together in eight encounters, the feds charged.
Victims reported being sedated in attacks that unfolded after real estate broker brothers Oren, 37, and Tal, 38, — who once boasted a roster of celebrity clients including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West — and Alon lured them by promising them luxury travel and hotels, the feds allege.
One witness told the government that they “couldn’t feel their limbs” after only drinking half of what they believed to be an alcoholic beverage, prosecutor Andrew Jones told the court.
The brothers’ have a pattern of rapes in which “they pin their victims down” and “forcibly have intercourse with them,” the prosecutor added.
Caproni denied the brothers’ proposed $115 million bail package after hearing several wild claims from Oren and Alon’s Florida lawyers, including that the twins should be released because they took lie-detector tests while locked up in a Miami jail.
“So you believe in polygraphs?” she asked Kluhe, noting that New York courts have long barred such speculative evidence from being introduced at trial.
“You want it for the press, but it’s not moving me,” the judge quipped when Howard Srebnick, another Florida lawyer repping Alon, again tried to bring up the results of the tests, in which the twins pledged they did not have sex with women who they knew were secretly given drugs.
The jurist also ripped as “nonsense” Kluhe’s claim that the feds cannot call a woman who was allegedly drugged before being raped by two of the brothers on camera “incapacitated” — because video seized from Tal’s apartment shows her “standing” up after the encounter.
“If that’s your argument, you lose,” the judge shot back. “That was your argument and it was nonsense.”
Kluhe also claimed that the sedating drug “GHB,” which the feds said the Alexander brothers used to allegedly drug and rape women, is in fact a “party drug.”
The three brothers did not attend Wednesday’s hearing and were allowed to remain in Florida, where two of them face separate state charges.
But Caproni ordered the three brothers transferred from their Sunshine State jail to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center so that they can attend their next court date on Jan. 29 in person.
Addressing the brothers’ lawyers and supporters, the judge said that the Brooklyn lockup, which has been notorious for its horrid conditions, has made improvements and added staffing in the past year.
“They are doing the best they can,” she said.
The brothers’ parents, Orly and Shlomy Alexander, immigrants from Israel who co-founded the successful private security firm Kent Security, observed the proceeding from the courtroom’s gallery.
Oren and Tal Alexander co-founded the luxury real estate firm Official, which offers ritzy listings in places like New York City, the Hamptons, Miami and Los Angeles, in 2022 after rising the ranks at brokerage giant Douglas Elliman.
