三名兄弟因利用其富裕生活方式对数十名女性下药并实施强奸而被定罪，周二各被判处30年监禁。此前，一名受害者将她的遭遇描述为“永恒的恐怖”，法官则斥责他们的行为可耻、堕落且骇人听闻。塔尔、奥伦和阿隆·亚历山大——三人合称亚历山大兄弟——在美国地区法官瓦莱丽·E·卡普罗尼宣布刑罚时面无表情。该刑期低于联邦检察官寻求的终身监禁。
Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an “eternity of terror” and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful, degenerate and monstrous. Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander — known collectively as the Alexander Brothers — stared blankly as U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni announced their punishment, which was less than the life sentences that federal prosecutors sought.
在听证会上发言的11名女性中，有数人在曼哈顿法庭旁听席上哭泣。“你们的行为骇人听闻，”卡普罗尼对三人说，将他们比作哲基尔博士与海德先生，同时试图调和陪审团3月作出的性贩运定罪与他们声称为人父、为人夫已让他们改变年轻时派对狂欢、玩弄女性的生活方式这一说法之间的矛盾。“我很难相信被告就这样改邪归正了，”法官说。
Some of the 11 women who spoke during the hearing wept in the Manhattan courtroom gallery.“Your conduct was monstrous,” Caproni told the men, equating them to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as she reconciled their March sex trafficking conviction with their claims that being fathers and husbands has changed them from the partying, womanizing ways of their youth.“It’s hard for me to believe the defendants changed their spots just like that,” the judge said.
她还说，“婚姻会把他们从性掠夺者变成模范绅士，这实在令人难以置信。”挤满法庭的许多女性似乎对判决感到失望，这一刑期意味着亚历山大兄弟将在大多数美国人正安享退休生活的年纪出狱。这三兄弟自2024年被捕以来一直不得保释被关押，每人还须缴纳至少30万美元罚款。奥伦·亚历山大还被勒令额外支付5万美元，原因是制作儿童性虐待材料——检方称他录制的一段视频显示他强奸了一名17岁女孩。
She added, “it strains credulity that marriage would change them from sexual predators to model gentlemen.”Many of the women in the packed courtroom appeared disappointed with the sentences, which will spring the Alexanders from prison around the age most Americans are settling into retirement. The brothers, jailed without bail since their 2024 arrests, must also each pay at least $300,000 in fines. Oren Alexander was ordered to pay another $50,000 for producing child sexual abuse material by recording a video that prosecutors said showed him raping a 17-year-old girl.
尽管三兄弟——39岁的双胞胎奥伦和阿隆，以及40岁的塔尔·亚历山大——对她们对待和看待女性的方式表示悔意，但他们都否认对任何人下药或强奸。“这完全是谎言，你们心知肚明，”卡普罗尼对他们说，并补充说她希望他们有一天能“对自己深感羞耻”。对于在法庭上发言的一些女性来说，无论多长时间都无法弥补她们所说的所受到的伤害。
While the brothers — twins Oren and Alon, 39, and Tal Alexander, 40 — expressed regret for how they treated and regarded women, they all denied drugging and raping anyone.“That’s entirely a lie and you all know it,” Caproni told them, adding that she hoped they someday feel “deeply ashamed of themselves.”For some of the women who spoke in court, no length of time will repair the damage they said was done to them.
她们哽咽着讲述那些侵害如何夺走了她们的纯真，让她们饱受噩梦折磨，并对男人心怀恐惧。“仅仅一个晚上，只有几个小时，一次邀约，就彻底毁掉了曾经的那个我，”一名为保护身份而使用化名的女子站在距兄弟几人仅几英尺远的讲台前说道。兄弟几人自行陈述庭审中，兄弟几人均未作证，但每个人都在宣判前发了言。
Choking up, they described how the assaults stole their innocence and left them haunted by nightmares and fearing men.“It took one night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was,” one woman, using a pseudonym to protect her identity, said as she stood at a lectern just feet from the brothers. The brothers speak for themselvesNone of the brothers testified at their trial, but each spoke before they were sentenced.
奥伦·亚历山大说，他和兄弟们成长于约炮文化以及霍华德·斯特恩高度性化的广播节目盛行的年代。他说，如今身为父亲回头看，他对自己当年关于女性的许多言论感到后悔。但他坚称，他们从未违法。“我和我的兄弟们从未给任何人下药或强奸任何人。我们从未贩运任何人从事性交易，也从未合谋伤害任何人，”奥伦·亚历山大念着事先准备好的发言稿说道。
Oren Alexander said he and his brothers came of age at the height of hookup culture and Howard Stern’s hypersexualized radio show. Looking back as a father, he said he regrets many of the things he said about women at that time. However, he insisted that they never broke the law.“My brothers and I have never drugged or raped anyone. We never trafficked anyone for sex and we never conspired to hurt anyone,” Oren Alexander said, reading from prepared remarks.
塔尔·亚历山大哽咽着请求卡普罗尼“理解站在这里有多么艰难”，并表达“对我并未做过的事情的真切遗憾”。“过去两年里，我失去了我所爱的一切，我为之奋斗的一切，”塔尔·亚历山大说。“我感觉就像一颗原子弹投在了我的生活上，摧毁了沿途的一切。”阿隆·亚历山大说，他也已经改变，并承认拥有妻子和女儿并不能为他贬低女性的信息或他曾经向他人吹嘘性经历的行为开脱。
Choking up, Tal Alexander asked Caproni to “understand how difficult it is to stand here” and express “genuine regret about something I did not do.”“Over the last two years I’ve lost everything I loved, everything I worked for,” Tal Alexander said. “I feel like an atomic bomb has been dropped on my life and destroyed everything in its wake.”Alon Alexander said he too has evolved and acknowledged that having a wife and daughter does not excuse messages he wrote that degraded women or times when he bragged to others about sex.“The party life you heard about and saw in the courtroom ended long before the FBI came knocking,” Alon Alexander said.
“你们所听说并在法庭上看到的派对生活，早在FBI登门之前很久就已结束，”阿隆·亚历山大说。“在我被捕六年前，我正在构建一种不同的生活。”兄弟三人都强调了他们的犹太信仰。戴着犹太小圆帽的奥伦·亚历山大说，即便按辩方寻求的15年最低刑期判决，他也会错过儿子的成人礼。他们请求卡普罗尼将他们分配到同一所监狱。
“Six years before my arrest, I was building a different life.”All three brothers stressed their Jewish faith. Oren Alexander, wearing a yarmulke, said that even with the minimum 15-year sentence the defense sought, he'd miss his son's bar mitzvah. They asked Caproni to assign them to the same prison.
塔尔的律师亚历山大表示，这样做可以减轻他们70岁父母的负担，父母希望每个周末都去探望他们。法官表示，她将把这一决定留给联邦监狱管理局。她同意建议将他们关押在迈阿密附近，那是他们成长的地方，也有亲属在那里，但她表示，如果由她决定，她会将他们送往不同的监狱。“我相信他们现在是这样，将来也会继续对彼此产生不良影响，”卡普罗尼说。
Tal Alexander said doing so would ease the burden on their parents, both age 70, who hope to visit them every weekend. The judge said she'll leave that decision to the federal Bureau of Prisons. She agreed to recommend that they be locked up near Miami, where they grew up and have relatives, but suggested that if it were up to her, they'd be sent to different lockups.“I believe that they are and will continue to be bad influences on each other,” Caproni said.
受害者描述挥之不去的恐惧在法庭上发言的指控者——以及另一位由检察官宣读陈述的指控者——是检方所称至少70名女性中的一部分，这些女性在过去二十年里在包括汉普顿和科罗拉多州阿斯彭等高档地点遭到这对兄弟中一人或两人的侵犯。艺术家兼画廊老板林赛·阿克里作证说，2011年她在汉普顿的一处住宅中喝下一杯饮料后感到全身瘫痪，随后被塔尔·亚历山大和另一名男子强奸。
Victims describe a lasting dreadThe accusers who spoke in court — and another whose statement was read by a prosecutor — were among at least 70 women who prosecutors say were assaulted by one or more of the brothers over the last two decades in posh locales including the Hamptons and Aspen, Colorado. Lindsey Acree, an artist and gallery owner, testified that she was raped by Tal Alexander and another man at a Hamptons home in 2011 after taking a drink that she said left her feeling paralyzed.
她放弃了事先准备好的发言稿，告诉卡普罗尼，即使判处终身监禁，也不足以对那些生活受到不可挽回伤害的女性伸张正义。“这浪费了我该死的时间。浪费了你的时间。浪费了这个房间里每个人的时间，”阿克里对法官说。她转向这对兄弟说：“为了什么？为了你们。因为你们做了一些非常糟糕的事。”“最重要的问题是为什么？你们为什么要这样做？”阿克里问道。“我不理解这种残忍。”
Scrapping her prepared remarks, she told Caproni that a life sentence wouldn’t begin to do justice for the women whose lives were irreparably harmed.“This has wasted my damn time. It’s wasted your time. It’s wasted everyone in this room’s time,” Acree told the judge. Turning to the brothers, she said: “For why? For you. Because you did some really messed up stuff.”“The biggest thing is why? Why did you do this?”Acree asked. “I don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred toward women.”
“我不理解对女性的仇恨。”另一名作证称塔尔·亚历山大在2014年8月强奸了她的女性表示，她“内心默默地为那个如果没有遭遇这一切本可能成为的自己举行了一场葬礼”。“塔尔在那个淋浴间里强奸我的每一秒，都像是无尽的恐怖，”这名使用化名的女性说。另一名讲述自己在汉普顿遭强奸经历的女性说：“那个看起来很美的地方，对我来说变成了一座恐怖之宅，一座藏着黑暗秘密的宅邸。”
Another woman who testified that Tal Alexander raped her in August 2014 said she carried “a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me.”“Every second that Tal raped me in that shower felt like an eternity of terror,” said the woman, who used a pseudonym. Another woman speaking about her rape in the Hamptons said: “What looked like a beautiful place became for me a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets.”
奥伦·亚历山大和塔尔·亚历山大曾是纽约房地产界的明星，因其超高端房产销售和名人客户而一度被称为房地产界的“A队”。在行业巨头道格拉斯·艾丽曼公司打破销售纪录后，他们创办了自己的公司。阿隆·亚历山大经营着家族的私人安保公司。兄弟三人展现的是一种专属生活方式——游艇、私人飞机和迈阿密海滨豪宅，但检方称，他们早在2001年或2002年读高中时就开始性侵女性，并随着时间推移形成了一套模式：引诱女性参加奢华度假，然后对她们下药并实施强奸。
Stars of the New York real estate sceneOren and Tal Alexander were once nicknamed real estate’s “A Team” for their ultra high-end sales and celebrity clientele. After smashing sales records at industry powerhouse Douglas Elliman, they started their own firm. Alon Alexander ran their family’s private security company. The brothers projected an exclusive lifestyle of yachts, private jets and waterfront mansions in Miami, but prosecutors said they began sexually assaulting women as early as 2001 or 2002, when they were in high school, and over time developed a pattern of drugging and raping women who they enticed to join them on luxury getaways.
在宣判前发言时，美国助理检察官伊丽莎白·埃斯皮诺萨告诉法官，兄弟三人的“冷酷、漫不经心、残忍”理应判处终身监禁，尤其是因为所有受害者都将承受终生的痛苦。“这些女性克服了所有告诉她们这是她们的错、她们应该保持沉默、没有人会相信她们的声音，”埃斯皮诺萨说。“尽管承受着那样的痛苦，仍有这么多女性站了出来，11名女性在庭审中作证。”
In remarks before the sentence was announced, Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa told the judge that the brothers’ “callousness, carelessness, cruelty” warranted a life prison term, especially since all their victims would be serving life sentences of pain.“Women overcame all the forces telling them this was their fault, they should stay quiet, that no one would believe them,” Espinosa said. “Despite that pain, so many came forward and 11 women testified at trial.”
莱克西·泽特尔在对卡普罗尼发言时说，塔尔·亚历山大曾是她眼中“的王子”，他对她说“你是我的女孩”，并向她许诺“童话般”的浪漫，直到他开始施压让她与他有生意往来的男人上床。“他们把我当成布娃娃，当成可以随意丢弃的东西，”泽特尔说。
Addressing Caproni, Lexi Zettle said Tal Alexander was once “a prince in my eyes” who said “you’re my girl” and dangled “fairytale” romance before her until he started pressuring her to sleep with men he did business with.“They treated me like a rag doll, like I was this disposable thing,” Zettle said.
她说，亚历山大兄弟“不是‘A团队’，他们也不能凌驾于法律之上”。
The Alexander brothers, she said, “are not the A Team and they are not above the law.”