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[tense music]

Oren: We're not just your average brothers.

We're 11 months apart, and I have a twin brother,

so we were, in a sense, triplets.

Marx: Two of them became amongst the most successful

real estate brokers in the United States.

People in the office were like, "Yeah, those guys are bad news."

Marx: They thought of themselves as hunters

and women were their prey.

Zettle: He said, "Why don't you go to the bathroom

and make him happy, Lex?"

He loaned me out to a business client.

Acree: His whole demeanor changed,

and... he sexually assaulted me.

There were lawsuits against all three of the brothers,

which included allegations of being raped.

Read: One particularly haunting comment said,

"I've been waiting for this since I was 15 years old."

To even try to understand how the brothers got this way,

you really have to go back to the beginning.

[♪]

[intriguing music]

When The Real Deal published its story...

being a reporter that's worked on real estate stories,

I had sources to call right away just to ask,

"Did you hear about this? What do you know?"

Editor asked me if I wanted on, um, and I immediately said yes.

It's exactly the kind of story that I wanna dig into.

Read: We started hearing from people who knew

the Alexander brothers as kids that this wasn't just behavior

that was happening in the 2010s in their twenties in New York.

And this made us realize that the key to understanding

how these brothers got this way

was to go back to their childhood in Miami.

[♪]

Elias: I'm checking my email.

I'm like... [gasps] I literally gasped.

My daughter's like, "Mom, what's wrong?"

Ross: There was a post from The Real Deal.

I read the story, and I was like...

"Wow." [chuckles] Like, finally,

there's-- there's some karma, you know, but also, holy crap.

Elias: Alon and Oren were in the picture,

and I'm like, "I'll never forget that face."

So I commented on the post something along the lines of,

"If they're anything like they were when-- when I knew them,

I believe everything that these women are saying."

Interviewer: Did you ever think you'd be,

you know, sitting down,

talking about the Alexanders

all these years later?

Like, am I surprised that someone from my high school

that I grew up around, uh, like,

is at the center of a national scandal?

No, I'm not at all surprised.

It feels very Miami.

♪ Summertime weather ♪

Radio Host: It's hot, baby!

A high near 90 degrees in south Florida.

Mostly sunny skies until later this afternoon,

then we'll cloud up a bit.

I met the Alexander brothers in middle school at Highland Oaks.

So I think I was, like, 13 when I met them.

They were definitely class clowns.

Always rude to authority figures.

They kind of had this energy, like, "You work for me."

They just didn't take anyone seriously.

I remember seeing them at school,

you know, pinching girls.

They would grab them in the butt or they would grope their chest

and-- and run, and-- and it was just fun for them,

and they thought it was hilarious, and nothing ever

really happened, so they just always kept doing it.

I didn't grow up as one of the wealthy kids,

and they tended to bully

kids that didn't come from the means that they came from.

There was one day-- this was in the eighth grade--

I would stay after school and play basketball.

While I was playing,

the Alexander brothers went in my backpack

and they stole a necklace that was really important to me.

It was a gift from my mom.

A gold necklace.

So I went to confront them.

They were handing it off to each other

and saying, "Look, I don't have anything!"

I was really pissed, and...

I just knew they're not gonna give it back,

and I'm not gonna fight them.

And so I let it go, and about 15 minutes later,

I'm standing at the-- at the crosswalk...

- and one of them... - [car horns honking]

...shoved me into oncoming traffic.

It was a moment where I saw my whole life flash before my eyes.

And I turned around

and I looked at them, and they're laughing.

They think it's the funniest thing in the world.

They were definitely bad kids from the beginning.

So I stayed as far away from them as I could get.

Johnston: In reading about this case and following this case,

I had so many questions about their childhood.

I wanna figure out where did those early ideas about women,

early ideas about sex, where do those things come from?

Is it nature? Is it nurture? Right?

Because it's almost always some combination of the two.

[♪]

[girl whooping]

Girl: Hey, it's us!

School's cancelled today.

- ...three. - [all exclaiming]

So my name is Dana Bassett.

Ashley: Hi, Dana. How are you today?

[laughs] Hi, Ashley.

Bassett: And I went to Michael Krop Senior High School

with the Alexander brothers.

And when I see some kind of crazy high school drama

that seems, like, completely over the top

- and outrageous... - Girl: Again!

...I think that is exactly what high school was like.

People were, like, so privileged and so wealthy.

At the school, everything outside of class

happened in the courtyard, and that is where I saw

Oren and Alon Alexander for the first time.

I could kind of just see them standing there,

looking very modelesque.

Some of the girls in our school were, like,

so excited about them arriving.

They, like, had the cool richy popular kid, like, uniform.

So exactly how I see them.

So weird.

Alon was more of a pretty boy, the hottie hottie.

And Oren, a little more, like, a goofy, like, look.

I knew that there was another brother.

Tal, to me, like, you know, felt, like, aloof.

There he is.

That's Tal Alexander.

Man, he looks honestly so young here.

They definitely ascended to, like, the top echelon

of popular kids in my school.

[tense music]

Elias: I was a high school teacher

for the bulk of 40 years.

My last big gig was at Michael Krop High School.

There are slight differences between Oren and Alon,

and I could tell them apart.

Some teachers couldn't.

Oren was the more dominant of the two twins

and seemed to be the ringleader.

[school bell ringing]

I always had Oren first thing in the morning,

which was a problem for him, 'cause he'd come to school late.

And if you come to school late in my class,

unless you have an excused tardy,

you get an F on that day's activity, sorry.

He was very arrogant.

He's not stupid, but he didn't wanna do the work.

And there were plenty of rich kids at the school, believe me.

And most of them didn't have that sense of entitlement

and, you know, "I'm better than everybody else,"

but Oren did.

I really feel the Alexander boys

were very spoiled from a young age,

and from what I can tell, they were never given

the lessons that your actions have consequences,

and your choices can lead to

sometimes not such good outcomes.

[♪]

Marx: These brothers grew up in a part of North Miami Beach,

an area called Bal Harbour.

Their parents, out of nothing,

built very successful businesses,

and that meant that these three brothers

grew up with really extraordinary privilege.

Walsh: Their parents' business, Kent Security,

they become one of the premier kind of rent-a-cop businesses,

uh, in Florida.

[siren wailing]

That little, like, blue box logo,

it's, like, ubiquitous.

Ross: It was kind of a telltale sign

that they had money behind them.

Johnston: Without a doubt, growing up with money

brings certain advantages,

not only in terms of what you can buy,

but the kind of social clout it gives you.

And so I think that in that environment,

you get used to being special.

Read: The parents really instilled in them

their sense of confidence.

Orly and Shlomi were

pretty aggressive businesspeople themselves,

and they instilled that in their kids.

Finn: I started working for Kent Security Services.

I was hired as a regular security officer.

I remember the time when there was the incident

with Orly and Shlomi.

I heard Shlomi

in a very loud voice

yelling and having an argument with Orly.

I ran to make sure that they were okay...

and I confirmed with Orly that she was okay.

But if you're gonna do that in your workplace

where other people can hear and observe it,

there's probably other tensions there.

Walsh: Shlomi's temper, I mean, is documented.

You know, there are a number of police reports over the years.

This is a police report filed by a contractor

working with Shlomi.

The victim has been having issues

with the suspect paying him for a job.

Shlomi got upset and told him, quote,

"I'll put you to sleep and make you vanish."

And it says, "Victim stated he was in fear of his life,

and he just wanted to document this incident

in case something happened."

Pretty-- pretty intense.

It seems part of a pattern that, you know,

Shlomi is very excitable when it comes to business.

And super aggressive.

We don't know exactly how the parents shaped their sons.

But there are parallels.

Tal, for instance, talented tennis player,

was training repeatedly all the time.

Walsh: But Tal had a reputation among his teammates

as having a short temper.

There was an incident according to police records

from the time where a tennis teammate of Tal's

had been harassed and intimidated by Tal.

Walsh: Showing up to his house to leave a note

threatening him and his mom.

Read: Tal had told this student that he might pay someone

to hurt him or hurt him himself.

This kid and his mom felt the need

to file a police report 'cause they were scared.

It's not clear that anything ultimately came from

making this report or that Tal was even questioned.

Walsh: But that story about Tal

really does seem to have a straight line

between him and his father, the way they're aggressive

and really lean on intimidation tactics

when they want something to go their way.

[intriguing music]

Johnston: One of the things that's been puzzling

for a lot of people has been that they were four brothers.

We know that Niv, who was the older brother,

was several years older than his younger siblings.

There's no suspicion of anything that he's done.

Then you have three kids who come along, you know,

within a one-year period,

and I think the result of that is those three develop a bond

that's very, very strong.

And I think the strength of that bond

can be a wonderful thing.

[school bell ringing]

Oren: My brother and I, you know,

were sort of responsible for the social life,

uh, for a lot of our friends and school.

I remember we were throwing the high school prom parties

when we were, like, sophomores.

We were throwing it for the seniors.

[dance music playing]

Bassett: The Alexander brothers would have these parties

that you would have to pay for.

Like, I think maybe they considered themselves,

like, young kings, or, like, future businessmen.

I think that they just were kind of, like,

interested in schemes and scheming.

Oren: We were doing deals and we were making money as kids

We were making a lot of money.

You know, that hustler mentality definitely helped--

you know, it's helped me throughout my lifetime.

At the time, I didn't, like, understand this as,

like, a wider pattern that was, like, exceptional.

I think a lot of other kids who have money and privilege

aren't, like, maniacal,

like, maniacally driven

to, like, prove something about yourself.

Walsh: The brothers, by the time they're underclassmen

at high school, had a reputation among parents, among students,

and I'm told also at least one police officer in Bal Harbor

would warn parents that the Alexander boys are dangerous

to be around because the way they treat women

and because of the parties they would throw.

Bassett: I definitely went to parties with the Alexanders,

and I know that they were at parties that I was at.

The drinking and mixing of pills was very common

and, like, very ugly.

These kids were getting so, so, so, so, so, so wasted.

Like, if you wanted to take advantage of someone,

A, like, it wouldn't be that difficult,

and B, like, certainly you had the-- the tools.

In retrospect, it was, like, a very unsafe environment.

[♪]

Hofeldt: It was ninth grade.

You know, I liked Limp Bizkit.

I was in love with Eminem.

I was into Christina Aguilera, you know, the Dirrty album.

I would hang out in, like, the little neighborhoods

with my friends and just chill.

My best friend at the time, he would, you know,

be in touch with some people and they would talk,

and you just hear things.

There are these kids that will spike Bacardi 151,

because it's the strongest liquor,

and they'll have you drink it,

and you'll black out and bad things would happen.

I was like, "Yeah, right." I mean, what, we're ninth grade,

like, 13-year-olds, 14-year-olds, roofie-ing people?

Like, are you kidding me? [laughs]

Like, I didn't believe it.

It was probably, like, a Friday night.

My mom or my dad dropped me off to my friend's house.

She's like, "Hey, there's a party tonight."

So she got a cab, and it was dark driving over there.

And there was a group of guys.

They're like, "Oh, the party's over.

The cops are on their way.

There's an after party."

And, like, they take us over to some house.

They opened the door, and all the lights were off.

And, like, they turn on the lights,

and Oren, Alon, and Tal were there.

And they're like, "Here."

I saw the bottle, the Bacardi 151.

I put it together. I was like, "I know where I am."

I swig it, but I don't drink it.

I kind of, like, tasted it to see what was in there,

and it was-- it was strong.

They pushed me into the hallway, into a bedroom.

They push me on the bed,

and they hold my arm and my leg and my feet.

They hold it out in an X.

They closed the door.

There was somebody guarding the door,

and they wouldn't let me out.

And then they're trying to grab at my pants,

but my pants are really, really tight

and they couldn't undo them.

They were not getting in my pants.

So Tal, he started humping me vigorously

and, like, very violently, and that's when I took off

his necklace and I put it in my pocket.

He didn't even know that I took it off.

And they tried to rape me.

'Cause-- They literally tried to.

They were violent, they were aggressive.

And there was no way out of that situation

or out of that room without me fighting.

And I fell on the floor...

and then I look out the window.

There's a guy with a camera filming it from outside.

And as soon as I see the door open,

like, I just run around the door.

And I go into the other room, I said,

"Take me home right now."

I didn't really understand what had happened.

Like, I didn't know what to even call what they did to me.

Like, was it my fault? Like, what do I do?

I was very distraught.

So I ended up telling my mom,

and she was like, "We have to go tell their parents."

And I was like, "No can do."

I mean, what am I gonna tell their parents in front of them?

They're gonna deny it. They're gonna say,

"No, that wasn't us. She's crazy."

People were afraid of them.

They thought that they were--

you know, had power in high places.

People were scared to talk.

[♪]

Years later, reporters started calling me.

They asked me about my experiences

and if I knew anybody else that knew anything.

Ross: So this was the image that was sent to me by a reporter,

and she said, "Do you recognize this necklace?"

And I jumped up super fast and I texted her back, I said,

"Oh, my God, you're not gonna believe this.

That's my necklace."

I had a photo of myself in the seventh grade

wearing that necklace, and I sent it to this reporter.

Hofeldt: I found out recently that the necklace

was one of their schoolmate's,

and it got stolen out of his bag.

It pretty much verified what I already knew,

that he was the one who stole it.

It shows they had no problems stealing.

Not because they had to, but because they wanted to.

And that evolved into,

you know, what they tried to do to Abby Hofeldt.

I feel like it's important to--

to cast whatever light I can on this,

not just because of what transpired,

but also because there are some pretty telltale signs

that people can head in this direction.

I just feel now like it's really important

for people to know who the Alexanders really are.

[solemn music]

Hofeldt: I was sitting with it for a long time.

I always thought that they were, like, around the corner.

It's definitely something that took a long time to get over.

And it was hard.

[breathing shallowly]

[sobs]

Ross: The way that these kids acted,

you know, they never had any guardrails.

They just knew that they could get away with whatever it was

that they were gonna do, so they just kept doing it.

This kind of behavior doesn't exist in a vacuum.

You question, were there other folks in their community

who said, "We need to stop this"?

[intriguing music]

Bassett: My graduating class had, like, 888 kids.

When you're a senior, like, everybody is allowed to kind of

say their special quote or, like, their special memory.

So there's a lot of things in the yearbook that are like,

"Tell me about your favorite memory."

Elias: I remember one of the girls in my class said,

"Did you see Oren Alexander's memory?"

Oh, right. Here you go.

"What was your most memorable moment at Krop?

"Riding my first 'choo-choo' train."

I assume that this refers to the first time that he...

like, ugh. What is it?

Like, it's, like, one woman being fucked by multiple men.

Ugh. It makes me nauseous.

Elias: When we saw it, we were like,

"How can he put this in the yearbook?"

Like, he admitted that he'd been doing this.

Johnston: There is so much research on group mentality.

One of the things you'll see sometimes is performance.

It's a kind of an expression of male dominance.

Women become props. Women become objects.

They become vehicles for this performance.

But it's really for the other men in their circle.

They may be taking pictures, and taking videos.

Uh, you know, putting on a show. It's a performance.

Ross: There was one time where I heard

there was a video circulating in school.

I didn't see it, I don't know what details

were there of what was on it,

but I do remember it was definitely sexual in nature.

Read: Hi, this is Bridget.

I'm a reporter at New York Magazine.

Former Student: Hi, Bridget.

Read: So you went to Krop

- in Miami? - Former Student: I did.

-I did, yes. - Okay.

And how well did you know the Alexander brothers?

We were in different groups, but our groups intertwined.

Did any of the brothers ever show you photos or videos?

Yeah, one time I was in the library, um, in school at Krop,

and Oren came up to me,

and I was with some other friends as well.

He was showing us a video on a camcorder,

and it was a bunch of guys surrounding a girl,

and the girl was having sex with a person.

And I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

I was just taken aback, and same with my friend at the time,

where I just remember us being like, "Whoa,

this is kind of crazy, man."

Oren was really excited about it.

I just remember him smiling and laughing, and...

he had a prize to show.

What was striking to hear was that he remembers Oren

allegedly not feeling embarrassed or having

any sort of second thought about showing this video,

whether the girl, or men in the video, frankly,

were consenting to being recorded, consenting to the act.

Clearly, um, this-- this person we spoke to felt like

he was seeing something he wasn't supposed to see.

I've spoken to multiple women

who were contemporaries of the brothers in high school,

in some cases even middle school, who recounted to me

very, very traumatic memories of being sexually assaulted

by one or more of the brothers and/or their friends.

Often feeling like they were not entirely

in control of their bodies,

and they certainly were not in a position to consent

to having sex with some of these boys.

[ominous music]

Elias: Several of us teachers had heard rumors

that the boys were boasting

about having gang-banged somebody.

I was horrified.

And we actually had this conversation

at a faculty meeting: what can we do?

If the school doesn't have the name of the victim,

they just know it's happening,

and it's happening on nights and weekends...

So if it's not a school event, our hands are kind of tied.

Walsh: When rumors start to spread at Krop High School

about the Alexander Brothers,

there are people at the high school who wonder

why they never seem to face any consequences.

I mean, Kent Security provides security around the high school.

Of course, that made me wonder

if there were people protecting them.

[teens laughing]

Boy: Oh, shit, I'm [indistinct]!

Read: Everyone was so young.

There was a lot of social pressure to fit in.

Girl: And this is Mel's boyfriend.

Also, people didn't wanna get each other in trouble.

And there's so much shame around this conversation topic...

- [girl squeals] - Boy: Oh, whoa!

...so we don't have a ton of documentation.

But we do have a police report from 2003 that shows that

at least one time when the Alexander brothers

were in high school, they were allegedly involved

in an incident that went all the way up

to Krop administrators and to the police.

A freshman girl came into school one day hysterically crying,

and, according to this police report,

eventually told school counselors

she thought she was going to a regular kind of hangout party,

and when she gets there, finds just a group of guys.

And Oren and Alon were named as boys in that group.

Ultimately, the police ended up investigating

what happened to her.

There was a lot of confusion about exactly

what this girl consented to and didn't consent to.

She went back and forth on some details.

And from what we know about her state,

I think it's really murky whether she was even able

to give consent.

Marx: What was so striking to me

when I first read this police report

was not just the horror of her experience,

but also the failure of the police officers

to really grasp what they were dealing with.

The way that they seemed to question this teenage girl

shows this disbelief that she could be telling the truth.

She was concerned that as a relatively new kid

at that school, this broader group of friends

that she'd recently made would disavow her

if some of these quote-unquote "popular boys" were getting

into trouble because of what she was telling authorities.

I just found out about this recently.

I've known her for more than half my life.

I remember she moved, and I never really knew why.

It's bad enough knowing that--

that those kind of things happened.

It's worse knowing that it happened

to someone that I know, and...

it's, uh-- it's-- it's--

it's-- it's senseless.

Read: Ultimately, the police decide that they don't have

enough evidence to keep going with a criminal investigation.

Johnston: I think to be fair-- you know, it's easy to look back

and kind of point a lot of fingers,

I don't know how much was done, but, I mean,

I think there's a lot of steps that could be taken.

Elias: I fear that there are still girls

who are never gonna come forward and they're afraid.

When you silence victims, it's easy to keep doing it.

[♪]

So senior year,

you can't graduate without going through me.

I'm their government economics teacher.

They are required courses for graduation.

And turns out, Oren, he didn't pass my class,

and so he was not gonna walk in June

with the rest of his classmates and his brother.

And he came to me and asked why he wasn't passing,

and I said, "Well, 'cause you didn't pass your test."

When I said I wasn't going to change his grade,

Oren said something like, "We'll see about that.

I can do something.

I can go over your head."

And the principal just said, "You're going to summer school."

And that's what happened.

[♪]

But he sent an email to the school board's office

basically grasping at straws.

It says, and this is a quote...

And I think this is telling.

He turned himself into a victim.

And this is something that unfortunately, uh,

people who are in power, this is what they--

if they don't get their way, then it's somebody else's fault.

It's like people who think they're above the law.

It's that same mentality where,

"I could do whatever I want,

and I'm gonna get whatever I want regardless."

Bassett: It's not surprising that as they grew older,

they, you know, continued to take advantage of

using their power and their wealth to remain blameless.

Read: About five years after high school,

all three brothers are living in New York City together,

and they're starting their careers.

But their past seems to creep up on them.

Around 2010, this anonymous blog post

suddenly appears on the internet.

It looks like the text of a Miami Herald article

describing a disturbing incident

involving Oren and Alon Alexander.

And people are talking about it.

Over and over again, we would talk to people and they said,

"Did you read the Miami Herald story?

Look up this blog post."

And we learned it was sort of like an open secret

that this story was out there.

Interviewer: Do you remember when you first saw the blog post

that appeared to be an article in the Miami Herald?

Uh, yes, very much so.

It was around 2010, 2011.

I received this email.

When I clicked on it, I had to read it twice.

It took me a second to take it in, but I got angry.

I got very angry.

Interviewer: Is the blog that you remember reading?

Not the best version of it, but yes.

- Yeah. - What does it say?

[Meier reading]

Walsh: You want me to read this?

Interviewer: Read just, like, the first two paragraphs.

Yeah. "February 2nd, 2004.

Miami, Florida...

Meier: The two were alleged

to have drugged her with Xanax...'

[sighs] "...and-- and then sexually--

um, and then sexually assaulted her."

Walsh: We couldn't even find proof

that the story was ever even published.

Read: Even though the article in the blog post

wasn't ultimately real,

it did contain details that were reminiscent

of the 2003 police report.

Walsh: It's hard to read the blog post

and not think of the police report,

'cause there's so many similarities.

There's, you know, the young classmates from Krop

going to these high school parties

where there's Xanax and drinking,

and multiple boys allegedly assault

one of their female classmates.

We don't know if this person who wrote this was referring to

this incident specifically,

or maybe it was a different incident,

or maybe an amalgamation of multiple things.

Interviewer: Who do you think

could've written something like this?

You know, someone that was sitting at home

and couldn't sleep because...

there was a 15-year-old girl crying every night?

I don't know.

Interviewer: And they-- they, uh-- Yeah, take a minute.

It's fine. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.

Interviewer: No.

[solemn music]

Read: People were noticing this blog post and talking about it.

And one of those people was a woman named Katie Moore.

Marx: Katie Moore was a young woman

interning in Manhattan for the summer.

She was invited by a girlfriend to go to a party

to watch a high-profile basketball game.

And she ends up waking up in bed naked

with Alon Alexander, who was also naked.

And telling him directly, "I don't wanna have sex with you."

And his response was basically, "Too bad. You already have."

Katie Moore looked up

the identity of the man who'd attacked her.

That's Alon.

And came across a blog about him

having done something similar in high school

and the charges being dropped.

Seeing this blog post totally freaked Katie out,

so she immediately started sending it to friends.

Walsh: People in the real estate world were aware of this blog.

Oren and Tal vehemently denied that it was real.

They said it was a shakedown.

Read: It's wild that the brothers seemed to have no idea

who wrote this blog post.

But regardless, it was enough of a problem that

the brothers decided they had to make this blog post go away.

I'm Glenn Dardick.

I'm a cyber forensics expert.

Back in September of 2010,

I got a call from Oren Alexander, and he explained

that he's getting emails about a blog post.

"I need someone to find out who's sending me these emails.

Is that something you do?"

I replied "Yes."

When you get cases like this,

you have to be careful about how you proceed.

Are you dealing with somebody that's telling the truth

or not telling the truth?

Oren Alexander forwarded me an email chain.

This is the first thing he sent me in writing after we spoke.

The first email, there's a link to a Blogspot

saying, "I know, I know."

And to that, Oren replies, "Fake blog."

The response from this email is, "Really? Because you

and your brother did it three weeks ago, and there's evidence.

Go out and do what you do best tonight,

rapists, go molest some girls while you're free."

Dardick: "Acquittal isn't happening

this time around, rapist."

I do remember that part.

Walsh: At one point, they reference a victim.

"Maybe I can call her and we can converse about

the size of our bruise marks.

Mine are pretty huge."

And Oren even goes on the offensive and claims

to have found this person's IP address and know who they are.

Which he doesn't, because we haven't figured that out.

That's why he's asking me to do it.

Walsh: Oren is telling people that this blog

is absolutely bogus, trying to get it removed.

And in this email exchange, his reaction is to taunt.

I mean, it's really threatening stuff.

It's clearly an intimidation tactic.

Eventually we speak on the phone, I said,

"I cannot provide you the information that you want

in terms of who this is.

You need to get an attorney."

They need to file a case against Jane Doe,

and from there, they need to issue a subpoena to Gmail.

That would be the next step.

And that was that. I never heard back from him.

Interviewer: Whatever happened to the original blog?

The original blog?

It's not there. That's all I know.

Walsh: That blog was gone.

But what we could find was eventually a lawsuit,

Alon and Oren suing unnamed people in Florida

to get that website taken down.

There was never any official response in court

from the people who posted it,

so the server, uh, ultimately took it down.

And then around the time they're fighting to get this blog down,

blogs that have the same headline,

you know, "Where are Oren and Alon now?"

appear all around the internet

that are just glowing profiles of the brothers,

talking about their charitable work,

talking about how wonderful they are.

They're living in New York

and they're doing great deeds for the poor.

Dardick: What are the odds that somebody's gonna print

the same title of a blog post with a totally different story?

The reason someone puts something like this out

is to obfuscate. [laughs]

If you look up this title on Google,

it doesn't send you to the original blog post.

It sends you over here.

Walsh: It certainly looks like

some strange flood-the-zone counter-offensive.

This idea that, okay, we're not gonna go to

traditional media about this,

but we are gonna change the narrative.

These tactics really are a preview of what's to come

in the way that they fight any kind of allegation.

But all of these tactics really remained

hidden behind closed doors,

until The Real Deal article came out in 2024

and opened the floodgates for dozens of women

to come forward with their experiences.

And this is really the moment when it seemed like

prosecutors might actually take on the Alexander brothers.

And I was asked to actually bring people in

who would tell their stories.

Reporter: All three Alexander brothers have denied

the allegations, calling them "a money grab."

Marx: The brothers did try to push back,

and they played a very aggressive game when they did.

Stern: There were people trying to discredit the women,

to silence these women and scare them off.

I realized these people were coming after me.

I'm still scared.

The question was, were they going to face charges?