"The first rape accuser testified under the pseudonym Katie Moore about an incident in Manhattan in 2012, when she was a 20-year-old marketing intern. Moore described a night of partying with a small group that included her friend Ainsley, Tal Alexander, Alon Alexander, and the brothers' then-friend, actor Zac Efron. Moore told the jury she collapsed at a nightclub after one sip from a drink handed to her by one of Tal's friends."
"When she came to, she said, she was naked on a bed in the two brothers' shared Manhattan apartment. "I don't want to have sex with you," she said she told Alon, who was standing at the side of the bed, also naked. "But you already did," she testified he told her, laughing, before raping her again. Jurors saw text exchanges in which Moore told her boyfriend of the alleged rape, and heard from two friends who said she told them, too."
Each Alexander brother faces sex-trafficking and rape allegations after multiple women testified they were drugged, overpowered, or filmed while barely conscious. Tal, 39, was a real-estate broker who sold multimillion-dollar properties in Miami and Manhattan; Oren, 38, worked alongside him; Alon, Oren's twin, is a former executive at the family's private security firm. All three brothers are being held without bail and face a potential life sentence. The first accuser, testifying under a pseudonym, said she collapsed after a single sip at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012 and awoke naked in the brothers' apartment, alleging rape. Jurors saw texts and heard friends' accounts; many accusers did not report the alleged assaults to police. The trial is expected to last a month.
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