Oldest Alexander, Tal, Named In Sexual Assault Swimsuit For First Time

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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 Courtroom on Tuesday.

The lawsuit complaint, which was filed by Angelica Parker, claims that Oren and Alon, who’s a personal safety govt, lured Parker and her pal to their house in New York Metropolis in 2012, the place Tal was ready, The Real Deal reported. As soon as there, Parker alleged that Tal and Alon proceeded to sexually assault and rape her as Oren watched.

“In the present day’s lawsuit is meant to ship a message that the legislation applies even to the very rich and well-connected, together with the Alexanders,” lawyer Michael Willemin, a accomplice at Wigdor LLP who’s representing Parker, mentioned in an announcement emailed to Inman.

“We applaud Angelica’s bravery in coming ahead. We’ve got little doubt that the Alexanders will amass a military of PR reps and personal investigators to launch a sufferer shaming marketing campaign, however she is not going to be intimidated, and this isn’t a ‘he mentioned, she mentioned.’ In accordance with experiences, dozens of girls have confirmed the Alexander brothers’ predilection for sexually assaulting ladies.”

The lawsuit towards Tal follows two suits against 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 towards two separate ladies in 2010 and 2012. Since these lawsuits have been made public, roughly 30 extra alleged victims of the brothers have come ahead to lawyer 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 Street Journal in a narrative that was revealed 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 wherein to sue their alleged perpetrators, irrespective 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 e mail that the allegations had been “absolutely anticipated.”

“It’s unlucky however absolutely anticipated that shakedown artists are going to line up given the allegations towards Tal’s brothers,” the assertion learn. “Nonetheless, Tal has performed completely nothing fallacious, and anybody hoping to hawk outrageous lies in hopes of a fast payday are going to search out themselves upset.”

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 pal had been invited to the brothers’ house, they have been provided the drug Ecstasy, which they declined. Shortly thereafter, Alon made them drinks and allegedly started to grope Parker’s pal, the grievance states.

The pal, 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 involved for Ms. Parker’s security,” the grievance says.

Then, the grievance alleges, Parker was raped by Alon and Tal in a “coordinated sexual assault that was deliberate and facilitated by Oren Alexander alongside together 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 identical 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 “utterly with out benefit” and ordered her to pay De La Hoya’s authorized charges and a $500 fantastic, The New York Post 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 Times 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’ lawyer 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 Times on Sunday, Nicole Oge, one other co-founder of Official and the agency’s chief development officer, mentioned that the agency is greater than any single star agent in its roster.

“The conflation or false impression about Official by some means being inextricably linked to any particular person, whether or not it’s me or Oren or anybody else, is simply false,” Oge mentioned. “Official just isn’t Oren Alexander.”

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