Takeaways From the Second Week of the Alexander Brothers Trial
The judge denied a request for a mistrial and jurors heard from a woman who accused one of the brothers of filming her when she was a minor. The sex-trafficking trial resumes on Monday.
By Kate Christobek
Feb. 9, 2026
Last Monday, defense lawyers requested a mistrial, arguing that the brothers could not receive a fair trial after their names were mentioned in documents that were released as part of the Epstein files. The brothers have not been linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019, or accused of any crimes associated with him.
...An accuser who was a minor at the time testified.
Prosecutors have also charged Oren Alexander with sexual exploitation of a minor, accusing him of filming and sharing a video of an incapacitated 17-year-old girl in April 2009.
The jury was shown the video privately during the first week of the trial. Last week, the woman in the video, now 34, said she had no memory of ever meeting Oren Alexander.
...On Monday, a woman using the pseudonym Bela Koval testified that she was drugged and raped by Oren Alexander in September 2016 at a party in the Hamptons.
She said she felt as if she had no control over her body after taking a few sips of a drink he had given her. She said she went to lie down and woke up to find him entering the room and raping her.
Another woman, testifying on Tuesday and Wednesday under the name Rhonda Stone, said she met Oren and Alon Alexander on a cruise to the Bahamas in January 2012. She said she went back to their cabin to buy MDMA. There, she said, she was offered a drink and lost consciousness.
Ms. Stone said she woke up feeling paralyzed, and remembered that the two brothers took turns having sex with her and with another woman.
...The prosecution has argued in charges that date back to 2008 that the brothers used drugs and alcohol to incapacitate women.
