Oren Alexander charged with rape in New York

Oren Alexander has been charged with raping a woman in New York nine years ago. This is the fourth lawsuit against the former top real estate agent and another in a growing series of allegations against him and two of his brothers.

Actress and comedian Renee Willett filed a lawsuit against Oren, accusing him of sexual assault in 2015. In the lawsuit, which was filed by The only trueThe 31-year-old says Oren gave her a “carbonated drink” that “physically affected” her before attacking her in his Soho flat.

Willett states in her complaint that she decided to file suit after allegations against the top broker surfaced in early June. TRD first reported on the two lawsuits filed by Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel, who claimed they were raped by Oren and his twin brother Alon, an executive in his family’s private security company, Kent Security.

The lawsuit alleges that Willett, who was 23 at the time, was “drugged and forcibly raped” by Oren. The suit was filed Friday under New York’s Gender-Based Violence Victims’ Protection Act. The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages.

Oren’s attorney, Isabelle Kirshner, declined to comment on the latest allegations, according to the New York Times, which first reported on the lawsuit. The brothers had previously denied the allegations.

Tal was named in a lawsuit filed shortly afterward by Angelica Parker, who accused him of raping her in a gang attack with Alon that was allegedly orchestrated and observed by Oren. The co-founder also resigned from Official.

In the latest lawsuit, Willett claims she met Oren in November 2015 through a dating app that members can join, and they exchanged messages for about a month before arranging to meet in person at the bar of the Mercer Hotel. When she got there, however, the bar was closed, so she arranged to meet at Oren’s apartment instead.

There he allegedly offered her something to drink, but she asked for water instead. He came back with a carbonated drink.

After taking her on a tour of his art collection in his apartment, he took her to his bedroom, where he locked the door and sexually assaulted her, despite her repeated requests to stop.

Since TRD When the first lawsuits were announced in June, plaintiffs’ attorney Evan Torgan said he and his partners had heard from dozens of women who claimed they had been assaulted by one or more of the brothers. The latest lawsuit is similar to other reports in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal from women who claimed they were assaulted and drugged by the Alexanders. The attacks are said to date back to their high school years.

Attorney Jonathan Tabar of Torgan Cooper + Aaron represents the plaintiff. Torgan filed the initial lawsuits on behalf of Whiteman and Mandel, but no longer represents Mandel.

An FBI task force to combat child exploitation and sex trafficking is speaking to women who say they were attacked by the brothers or witnessed the attacks.

This week, the Times reported that Douglas Elliman’s top agent, Tracy Tutor, claimed she was drugged by Oren in 2014. Jessica Cohen, another top agent at the brokerage, said she was also drugged by Oren and Tal in a separate incident in 2010.

Cohen said she told Elliman Chairman Howard Lorber in 2012 that she believed she had been drugged. Stephen Larkin, a company spokesman, confirmed that Lorber was informed of an incident but that it was confidential. The company insisted that no formal complaint was ever filed.

Cohen also said she told Elliman’s vice chair, Dottie Herman, about the incident, but Herman told the Times she did not remember the conversation.

Oren and his brother Tal were top real estate agents in South Florida and New York and co-founded Official, a Side-backed brokerage, in 2022 after working at Douglas Elliman for about a decade. The jet-setting brothers have been involved in some of the largest luxury real estate deals in the country.

Since the allegations came to light, Oren and Tal have had their licenses with Official revoked. Official, which they founded with former Douglas Elliman executives Nicole Oge, Richard Jordan and Andrew Wachtfogel, lost some of its new development business.

Top Los Angeles agent Tyrone McKillen has announced he is leaving the brokerage with his team of eight. In New York, John Hudak left the firm to join Elliman, and in Miami, Anna Sherrill returned to One Sotheby’s International Realty after a brief stint at Official, where she led the sales of Michael Shvo’s luxury condominium project in Raleigh. Shvo ended his relationship with Official at the end of June.