Tal Alexander, whose portfolio of luxurious actual property transactions contains a few of New York and Miami’s most eye-popping gross sales, is stepping down from the high-end brokerage he co-founded within the wake of mounting allegations of sexual assault.
His exit from Official comes two weeks after Oren Alexander, his youthful brother, additionally stepped down within the face of assault allegations.
The choice to half methods with Tal, mentioned Nicole Oge, one in all Official’s 5 co-founders, was mutual, because it additionally was with Oren.
“I feel Tal and Oren perceive that their precedence is specializing in the duty at hand for them, which is totally different from mine. Mine is targeted on our enterprise,” she mentioned.
Earlier this month, two girls alleged that Oren sexually assaulted them greater than a decade in the past. Oren’s an identical twin brother, Alon, an govt in a non-public safety agency, can be named as a defendant in each of these complaints.
In a single lawsuit, a girl says she was assaulted at a celebration mansion within the Hamptons. In one other grievance, a girl says she was drugged after which assaulted in Manhattan. In a 3rd lawsuit filed final week, a girl says that she was sexually assaulted by Tal and Alon, and that Oren watched.
The brothers, by their attorneys, deny all the allegations in all three fits.
Oren, 36, stepped down from Official days after these complaints surfaced, however Tal, 37, stayed on on the brokerage, as many friends throughout the New York actual property business questioned whether or not Official might stand up to the unfavorable publicity and the lack of two co-founders.
“Given the salacious nature of this false allegation and impression on Official, Tal and his companions have determined he’ll take a depart from the corporate to focus absolutely on clearing his title,” wrote Milton Williams and Deanna Paul, who’re representing Tal by Walden Macht & Haran LLP, in an emailed assertion.
Isabelle Kirshner, a lawyer for Oren and Alon Alexander, final week defended the brothers and described the complaints as cash grabs in a press release to The New York Instances.
“It’s disappointing [but not surprising] that plaintiffs’ counsel is resorting to their similar generic playbook — file equally fantastical boilerplate claims in opposition to supposedly deep-pocketed people with out regard to the precise information or reality,” she mentioned in an electronic mail.
When the contemporary allegation that features Tal surfaced, she added, “We’ve reviewed the allegations contained within the grievance and deny them, as they’re pure fiction.”
On Tuesday, attorneys for Tal moved the third case to federal courtroom. Within the submitting, they be aware that Tal is a resident of Florida, as are Oren and Alon, whereas the plaintiff is a resident of New York.
Tal and Oren made a reputation for themselves in big-money actual property and had been as frequent a fixture on lists of high actual property brokers as they had been in splashy tabloid dispatches about New York and Miami nightlife. The duo spent greater than a decade on the brokerage agency Douglas Elliman, the place they led a staff of high-producing brokers referred to as the Alexander Workforce.
Collectively, the brothers helped to dealer the billionaire Ken Griffin’s record-setting 2019 buy of a penthouse at 220 Central Park South, a deal closed for almost $240 million. In 2021, one 12 months earlier than they left Elliman to launch their very own brokerage, the Alexander Workforce reported greater than $1.8 billion in gross sales.
They left Elliman to create Official in 2022.
Ms. Oge, in a name on Tuesday, mentioned her brokerage remained in a powerful monetary place.
“Official shouldn’t be a person or a staff. It’s a collective of remarkable professionals across the nation who need to get again to the enterprise that they love and that they’re so good at,” she mentioned.
The brokerage, she added, “is being conflated with two people understandably very well-known in our business. However that conflation continues to do a rare disservice to the 90-plus different people, coast to coast, who’re transacting on the highest stage day in and day trip.”
