A girl has accused star actual property dealer Tal Alexander and his brother Alon of raping her at a Manhattan condo in 2012.
The accusation was made in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in a New York state court docket. Earlier this 12 months, two different ladies filed separate lawsuits accusing Alon and a 3rd brother, Oren Alexander, of rape.
Within the newest lawsuit, Angelica Parker accuses Alon and Tal of assaulting her within the fall of 2012 of their SoHo condo whereas Oren watched.
Parker said she met Oren in 2012 and “developed a short private relationship” with him. Parker says that within the fall of that 12 months, she and a buddy met Oren and Alon on the condo at 543 Broadway.
The buddy left after Alon started “groping her” and waited in a stairwell out of concern for Parker, in keeping with the criticism. Parker’s lawyer says within the lawsuit that Alon then orally and vaginally raped her and that throughout the vaginal rape, “Tal proceeded to forcibly orally rape Ms. Parker in opposition to her will.”
Oren, “sat and watched as Ms. Parker was raped by his brothers,” the criticism says.
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Isabelle Kirshner, a protection legal professional representing Alon and Oren, mentioned the brothers denied the allegations in Parker’s lawsuit.
“They’re pure fiction,” Kirshner mentioned in a press release. “We stay up for presenting the info in court docket.”
Michael Willemin, Parker’s legal professional, mentioned in a press release that the case was “meant to ship a message that the regulation applies even to the very rich and nicely linked, together with the Alexanders.”
“Now we have little question that Angelica will prevail on this matter,” Willemin mentioned.
An legal professional for Tal Alexander didn’t instantly return an e mail Tuesday searching for touch upon the allegation.
Tal and Oren have been among the many greatest names within the profitable enterprise of promoting high-priced properties. Additionally they developed a popularity within the brokerage enterprise for his or her aggressive strategy in courting rich clientele and elbowing different brokers out of transactions.
Two years in the past the pair broke off from Douglas Elliman, the brand-name brokerage the place they’d labored for greater than a decade, and cofounded Official Companions, a agency that focuses solely on the uppermost tier of the residential gross sales market.
In March, two ladies in separate lawsuits filed in NY state court docket accused Oren and his equivalent twin brother Alon, 36, of rape. In a single case, Rebecca Mandel mentioned Oren and Alon met her at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012, spiked her drink, and invited her to a celebration at their condo. Once they arrived, the house was empty, and Alon and Oren held her down and took turns raping her, she mentioned.
Within the second lawsuit, Kate Whiteman mentioned Oren and Alon whisked her away from a nightclub in a non-public automotive and raped her at a mansion within the Hamptons in 2012.
Evan Torgan, the legal professional representing Mandel and Whiteman, mentioned his purchasers felt “devastation” for Parker after listening to about her lawsuit.
“However they’re actually gratified that everybody’s becoming a member of the struggle with them as nicely,” he informed BI. “Hopefully, they’re going to get justice, and all of the victims will get justice, and it will lastly come to a cease.”
Oren introduced final week he would take a “pause” from Official Companions whereas he defended himself from “these baseless civil claims.”
“I’m assured that via overview of the in depth proof, together with textual content messages and different communications, that the reality will likely be delivered to mild,” he said.
Official launched a message final Friday to its workers stating that Oren’s brokerage license was severed from the agency “and the method of eradicating him from possession is nicely underway.”
A spokesman for Official Companions declined to touch upon the latest lawsuit and did not say whether or not Tal Alexander will stay on the agency.
