The judge also handed down 20-year sentences for additional convictions but ordered them to run concurrently with the 30-year terms. Prosecutors had requested life imprisonment, while defence lawyers urged the court to impose the mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years.
Before sentencing, several women who accused the brothers of assault addressed the court, recounting the lasting psychological effects of their experiences, including nightmares, emotional distress and difficulties trusting others. Many called on the judge to impose the harshest possible punishment.
“One night, only a few hours, one invitation to completely wreck the girl I once was,” one woman, who spoke under a pseudonym, told the court.
Prosecutors said at least 70 women had reported being assaulted by one or more of the brothers over several years, although 11 women testified during the trial. The alleged incidents took place in Manhattan, the Hamptons on Long Island and Aspen, Colorado, among other locations.
According to the prosecution, the brothers exploited their wealth, social standing and access to luxury properties to lure women to parties and trips, where some were allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted. Prosecutors said the pattern of abuse spanned at least 14 years, with allegations dating back to 2001 or 2002, when the brothers were still in high school.
One incident outlined in court involved three girls celebrating the end of high school at a nightclub in Aspen in January 2017. Prosecutors alleged that the girls were drugged and persuaded to attend an after-party at a five-star hotel, where they were assaulted. At the sentencing hearing, a woman identified by the pseudonym Isa Brooks said Tal and Alon had sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
“I had no idea the danger I was in till it was too late,” she said.
Another woman told the court that Tal had threatened her when she considered reporting the alleged abuse, saying he knew where her sister worked.
Lindsey Acree, an artist and gallery owner, also spoke about an incident at a Hamptons property in 2011. She testified that after consuming a drink, she felt paralysed before Tal and another man sexually assaulted her.
Acree told the court that even a life sentence would not undo the damage suffered by the women.
“The biggest thing is why? Why did you do this?” she asked. “I don’t understand the cruelty. I don’t understand the hatred towards women.”
Another woman, who testified about an alleged incident involving Tal in August 2014, described the emotional toll she continued to carry, saying she had “a quiet funeral in me for the person I might have become had this not happened to me”.
A further speaker described the Hamptons property where she was assaulted as “a mansion of horror, a mansion of dark secrets”.
Assistant US Attorney Elizabeth Espinosa argued that the brothers’ repeated conduct and the long-term consequences for their alleged victims warranted life imprisonment.
“For years, they honed their methods of luring women with the promise of luxury,” she said, adding that the brothers were “completely unmoved by the path of suffering they left behind them”.
Espinosa also commended the women who came forward despite concerns that they would be blamed or disbelieved.
“Women overcame all the forces telling them this was their fault, they should stay quiet, that no one would believe them,” she said.
Throughout the victim impact statements, the brothers showed little visible emotion, either looking straight ahead or speaking with their lawyers. Their legal representatives said they had advised them not to look directly at the women to prevent their reactions from being misinterpreted.
None of the brothers testified during the trial. However, all three addressed the court before sentencing and continued to maintain their innocence.
Oren said he regretted comments he had made about women when he was younger but denied that he or his brothers had drugged, assaulted or trafficked anyone.
“I am not here to discount what they have said,” he told the court, referring to the women who addressed the hearing.
Tal described their former lifestyle as having a “work-hard, play-hard mentality” and acknowledged that his behaviour had hurt people’s feelings. However, he denied drugging anyone or committing sexual offences.
He also asked the judge to place him in the same prison as his brothers. Tal said their parents, both 70, hoped to visit them every weekend and would face difficulties if the three men were held in separate institutions.
Alon, meanwhile, said his life had changed during the eight years he had been committed to his wife. He described his priorities as work, home, children, parents and community.
Defence lawyers argued that the brothers had become devoted fathers and that lengthy prison sentences would place significant hardship on their families. Alon’s lawyer, Howard Srebnick, described a life sentence as one that would effectively ensure his client never left prison.
Judge Caproni, however, criticised the brothers for refusing to acknowledge their crimes.
“Your conduct was monstrous,” she said. “Your crimes wreaked havoc on their lives.”
Tal and Oren were well-known luxury real estate brokers in New York and Miami, recognised for handling high-value property transactions and working with celebrity clients. After previously working at Douglas Elliman, they established their own firm. Alon, meanwhile, managed the family’s private security company.
Prosecutors argued that the brothers’ public image, associated with private jets, yachts and waterfront mansions, helped them gain access to women they later abused.
The three brothers were arrested in 2024 and have remained in custody without bail. Judge Caproni has indicated that she believes they should serve their sentences in separate prisons, citing concerns that they had a negative influence on one another. Their lawyers are expected to challenge that position and argue that the brothers should be incarcerated together.
