The lawsuit filed in New York on Tuesday alleges that Tal and Alon Alexander sexually assaulted a sufferer in 2012, whereas Oren Alexander allegedly orchestrated the encounter and seemed on.
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Tal Alexander, co-founder of luxurious agency Official, has now joined his brothers, twins Alon and Oren Alexander, as an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in New York County Supreme Court docket on Tuesday.
The lawsuit grievance, which was filed by Angelica Parker, claims that Oren and Alon, who’s a personal safety government, lured Parker and her buddy to their house in New York Metropolis in 2012, the place Tal was ready, The Actual Deal reported. As soon as there, Parker alleged that Tal and Alon proceeded to sexually assault and rape her as Oren watched.
“Today’s lawsuit is intended to send a message that the law applies even to the very wealthy and well-connected, including the Alexanders,” legal professional Michael Willemin, a accomplice at Wigdor LLP who’s representing Parker, stated in a press release emailed to Inman.
“We applaud Angelica’s bravery in coming forward. We have no doubt that the Alexanders will amass an army of PR reps and private investigators to launch a victim shaming campaign, but she will not be intimidated, and this is not a ‘he said, she said.’ According to reports, dozens of women have confirmed the Alexander brothers’ predilection for sexually assaulting women.”
The lawsuit in opposition to Tal follows two fits in opposition to Oren and Alon, filed in latest months and first reported on June 8, that alleged the dual brothers raped and dedicated different acts of sexual violence in opposition to two separate girls in 2010 and 2012. Since these lawsuits have been made public, roughly 30 further alleged victims of the brothers have come ahead to legal professional Evan Torgan, who’s representing the primary two victims whose identities have been made public, Kate Whiteman and Rebecca Mandel.
5 alleged victims additionally got here ahead to The Wall Road Journal in a narrative that was printed on Tuesday. Two of these alleged victims have been recognized as actual property brokers.
All three lawsuits have been filed below an extension of New York’s Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Regulation, which has given survivors of gender-motivated violence a two-year window through which to sue their alleged perpetrators, regardless of how way back the assault occurred. The window to file a lawsuit closes March 2025.
Tal had not been named within the lawsuits filed by Whiteman and Mandel, however Torgan instructed The Actual Deal that different alleged victims who approached him had named Tal as one other alleged perpetrator.
A spokesperson for Tal instructed Inman in an electronic mail that the allegations had been “fully expected.”
“It is unfortunate but fully expected that shakedown artists are going to line up given the allegations against Tal’s brothers,” the assertion learn. “However, Tal has done absolutely nothing wrong, and anyone hoping to peddle outrageous lies in hopes of a quick payday are going to find themselves disappointed.”
Official declined to remark to Inman on the most recent lawsuit naming Tal.
Within the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Parker alleged that after she and her buddy had been invited to the brothers’ house, they have been supplied the drug Ecstasy, which they declined. Shortly thereafter, Alon made them drinks and allegedly started to grope Parker’s buddy, the grievance states.
The buddy, named solely as “YL” within the grievance, left the house as a result of she began to really feel uncomfortable, however waited within the stairwell for Parker as a result of she was “so concerned for Ms. Parker’s safety,” the grievance says.
Then, the grievance alleges, Parker was raped by Alon and Tal in a “coordinated sexual assault that was planned and facilitated by Oren Alexander along with his brothers.” The lawsuit claims that Alon pinned Parker down whereas orally and vaginally raping her. Whereas Alon was vaginally raping her, it additional alleges that Tal then orally raped Parker on the similar time. The grievance claims that Oren “sat and watched.”
Angelica Parker was previously referred to as Angelica Cecora and sued boxer Oscar De La Hoya in 2012 for alleged battery and false imprisonment. A choose in that case discovered then-Cecora’s claims “completely without merit” and ordered her to pay De La Hoya’s authorized charges and a $500 superb, The New York Put up reported.
A few week in the past, Oren Alexander stepped down from his position at Official within the wake of the rape allegations going public. Official has additionally eliminated any reference to Oren from its web site and instructed The New York Occasions that he had relinquished his minority stake within the firm.
Jim Ferraro of the Ferraro Regulation Agency had been representing Oren and Alon of their preliminary circumstances, however he withdrew because the brothers’ legal professional on Monday and Isabelle Kirschner of Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder LLP took his place. Kirschner is thought partially for serving to a former New York Metropolis gynecologist accused of intercourse abuse to negotiate a plea deal that allowed him to remain out of jail.
In an interview with The New York Occasions on Sunday, Nicole Oge, one other co-founder of Official and the agency’s chief progress officer, stated that the agency is greater than any single star agent in its roster.
“The conflation or misconception about Official somehow being inextricably linked to any individual, whether it’s me or Oren or anyone else, is just false,” Oge stated. “Official is not Oren Alexander.”
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