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One of the original sexual assault cases against former real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander has been dismissed.
A federal judge dismissed Angelica Parker’s suit against the Alexanders — including Oren’s twin brother Alon — on the grounds that the case was not filed within the time frame set by a New York state law that allows sexual assault survivors to sue their alleged attackers no matter how far back the incident occurred.
The window for the law — the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) — was from November 2022 to November 2023. Parker’s suit was filed in June 2024 under New York City’s similar law, the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law (VGMVPL). The two-year window on that law closes in March 2025.
Judge Lewis Kaplan sided with the defendants’ argument that the ASA preempts the VGMVPL, thus ruling that the suit was filed after the window on the ASA closed. But Tal Alexander was dismissed without prejudice, and Parker has the option to file an amended complaint before Feb. 14.
Parker’s suit against the three brothers stems from an incident in the fall of 2012. Parker claims that she and a friend were assaulted at Oren Alexander’s Manhattan apartment after they were given the party drug ecstasy without their knowledge.
The complaint states that the friend left the apartment after feeling uncomfortable around the brothers. Parker claims she was raped by Alon and Tal, an assault she said was planned and facilitated by Oren.
While Oren and Alon have won a legal victory, The Real Deal reported that a woman filed a complaint against Tal on Monday in a Miami court. She claims she was bullied into a tour of Oren’s home, where she was then assaulted.
Tal and Oren Alexander were once superstars in the New York City brokerage world, having made a name for themselves at Douglas Elliman. In 2022, they left the firm — which is complying with an FBI inquiry on the brothers’ time there — to found Official Partners, a luxury brokerage affiliated with Side.
Their lives began to unravel in June 2024 when news broke that two women — Rebecca Mandel and Kate Whiteman — had filed sexual assault lawsuits in March against Oren and Alon Alexander. Parker filed her suit days after the Mandel and Whiteman lawsuits were reported by The Real Deal.
Things came to a head in December when the brothers were arrested on state and federal sex trafficking charges, and more civil suits have been filed since the arrests. They were denied bail earlier this month and are being held in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York. A date for their trial has not been set.
Their business partners at Official left after the allegations went public, and the brokerage is no longer operational. Side is suing Tal, Oren and Official for defaulting on a $4.6 million promissory note.
The Alexanders have previously denied all sexual assault allegations against them, and Tal and Oren have accused Side of manufacturing the event of default on the loan.
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