A second accuser in the Manhattan sex trafficking case against three well-to-do brothers from Miami on Thursday testified about being violently raped at one of the Alexanders’ frat house-style parties and seeing women around her sip drinks and drop to the floor.
The disturbing account came from “Maya Miller,” a registered nurse from Nevada who took the stand under a pseudonym. She said her online chatting with Tal Alexander, the eldest of the brothers on trial, led to an invitation to the Hamptons in August 2014, when she was 23 and an aspiring model.
The witness said the deluxe getaway quickly grew uncomfortable, describing how her friend and another female guest became weak in the legs after a drink as the brothers prowled the halls of the Sag Harbor mansion.
Tal, 39, and his twin brothers Oren and Alon, 38, are facing a litany of charges in the case alleging they operated a twisted sex trafficking scheme from at least 2008 through 2021, in which dozens of women were brutalized. Federal prosecutors say it was long routine for the siblings to recruit women to rape and sexually assault after spiking their drinks, if not employing “brute force” to carry out the assaults.
The brothers maintain their innocence and are being detained without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
After feigning to keep up with her hard partying hosts — secretly disposing of drinks put in her hand — the Nevada nurse said she saw a blond woman she believed was a guest of Oren passed out by the pool, and that the friend she brought appeared to be knocked out after just half a glass of wine.
The witness said Tal followed when she took her friend to bed, hopping in between the two women and appearing especially curious about whether Miller had been drinking. She told the court she was “100% sober” but lied so as not to appear like a “party pooper.”
Some time later, Miller said, she was tossing and turning with nerves when Tal returned to the bedroom with another man. Upon realizing she was awake, Miller said, one of the men exclaimed, “Oh, s—t!” before they left.
Miller alleged the attack came the next morning after Tal learned she and her friend were leaving early. After criticizing her as ungrateful, she said Tal followed her into the bathroom as she went to take a shower and appeared to be turned on by her distress.
“He got sexually aroused while he was looking at me while I was crying,” Miller testified, saying she then froze as he pulled down his trunks, got into the shower, and bent her over.
“He proceeded to rape me in the shower,” Miller said. “I remember trying to scream, but it felt like there was a frog in my throat.”
The witness said the assault was so vicious that she experienced vaginal bleeding for two days.
“When he was cleaning himself up, he looked at me and said, ‘You wanted it,’” she told the court.
On cross-examination, attorneys for Tal and Oren sought to cast doubt on Miller’s account, questioning why she expressed thanks to Tal after the trip, didn’t report the assault to the police or seek medical attention for her injuries. Miller said she felt ashamed, disoriented in a new city and full of fear.
On both direct and cross, said said she feared Tal and his ability to “make a phone call” and end her nursing career.
“The look he gave me, what he did to me, has put a lot of fear into me,” she said, describing the episode as an instance of “pure control.”
Prior to their December 2024 arrests, Tal and Oren had built reputations as some of the most successful real estate agents in the U.S., having started out at Douglas Elliman and later launching their firm Official Partners. Oren featured in Forbes’ “30 under 30” in real estate in 2011, by which time the outlet reported he’d sold more $100 million in homes. Prosecutors presented emails to the jury showing Tal corresponding with Miller from his Douglas Elliman email address in the leadup to the Hamptons trip.
During her opening statement on Tuesday, defense lawyer Teny Geragos sought to cast the women who have come forward against the Alexander brothers as being opportunists motivated by money. Many lawsuits remain pending against the brothers, though neither of the two women the jury has so far heard from — Miller and a woman who alleged Alon raped her in 2012 — has sued or otherwise sought compensation.
Miller on Wednesday said she chose to report the assault after seeing news coverage about the brothers’ indictment in 2024, when former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams urged women who believed they’d been victimized by the Alexanders to contact the FBI.
“I am 34 years old now and know who I am,” Miller said. “I want somebody held accountable for what they’ve done to me.”
The trial continues Monday.
