The Alexander twins await a federal court hearing Monday, the older brother remains at FDC Miami

MIAMI – While facing federal charges in a sex-trafficking conspiracy dating back to their days at Michael Krop High School, jet-setting luxury real estate moguls with deep roots in Miami-Dade County and Israel remained behind bars.

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Far from their lavish lifestyle, 37-year-old twin brothers Oren and Alon Alexander were awaiting a federal court hearing Monday in Miami after a federal judge on Friday denied bond to their older brother, 38 years old, Tal Alexander.

As of Saturday, Miami-Dade County inmate records show Alon Alexander was at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and Oren Alexander was at the Metrowest Detention Center. Correctional officers booked both of them Wednesday. Federal inmate records show Tal Alexander was at FDC Miami on Saturday.

Miami Judge Lisette Reid rejected the defense attorney’s pledge of $115 million in real estate that included a Bal Harbor residence owned by their Israeli father, Shlomy Alexander, a real estate developer and co-founder of a security company.

Reid heard testimony Friday from FBI Special Agent Justine Atwood, who reported that evidence shows a pattern includes text messages, videos, photos and the testimony of about 40 women who did not know each other but described similar nightmares.

In Miami-Dade County, prosecutors have filed charges against a suspect Gang rape on New Year’s Eve 2016 and sexual battery in 2017 and 2021 against the twins. The 2016 case also includes Ohad “Hummus Hunk” Fisherman, 38, whose lawyer, the court reported, was on his honeymoon in Japan.

The 2016 victim who claimed she met one of the twins on Bumble, a free dating app, also filed a civil lawsuit Thursday in New York State Supreme Court after the Alexander brothers were arrested. County Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer denied the twins’ bond Thursday.

Fridaycounty Circuit Judge Lody Jean granted the twins preventive release in deals that included a personal guarantee of $3 million for Oren Alexander and $2 million for Alon Alexander.

“My wife is nine months pregnant and (she) is due to give birth any day now with our first child,” Oren Alexander said in court. “Her family is in Brazil and it’s up to me to be with her during labor.”

Both Oren and Alon Alexander married professional models who are brunette and 5 feet 10 inches tall. Last year, Vogue published photos of Oren Alexander’s Isla Morada wedding Kamila Hansenwhich is from Cabo de Santo Agostinho in Brazil. She deleted her Instagram account after her arrest.

indictment of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, cause, or duress alleges that the three brothers’ offenses occurred at least in or around 2010 until approximately 2021.

Your Alexander married to Arielle Kogutfounder of Celine Recruiting, last year after a short engagement. Alon Alexander has already done it married Shani Zigron in 2020. The model said Ocean Drive that year he had served in the Israeli army for two years. They have two children.

FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge James E. Dennehy said in a statement that the brothers were “predators” and that the cases would not have been possible had it not been for the “courage” of the victims.

US Attorney Damian Williams was released a statement saying the federal investigation was “far from over” even though there was evidence showing the three brothers had “repeatedly and violently sexually assaulted and raped dozens” of victims.

“If you have been the victim of alleged sexual assault by Alon Alexander, Oren Alexander or Tal Alexander — or if you know anything about their alleged crimes — we urge you to come forward.”