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Detective: You can lower your hand, thank you.

[tense music playing]

Miller: The brothers had a playbook.

Reporter: Using their power and money to prey on women.

Officer: Sir, step in.

[sirens wailing]

Sometimes monsters, they don't look like a monster.

Marx: The Alexander brothers

were these three brothers who grew up

with really extraordinary privilege.

Two of them became amongst the most successful

real estate brokers in the United States.

Read: Even as young 25, 26, 27-year-olds,

they're setting records all over the country.

Reporter: He's way too young to be doing

as much business as he's doing, but he does.

Marx: And they did business with these titans of industry.

Read: They knew where to go to find high-flying clients,

getting into the hottest clubs.

They seemed to know how to be in every room.

[engine revving]

Walsh: But over the years,

everybody heard rumors.

Rumors about a potential dark side.

Walsh: Behind the scenes, it's horrific.

It's corrupt.

It is absolutely twisted.

- [Oren laughs] - Wow!

That's some Discovery Channel shit right there.

Nobody can predict the type of stuff,

the little moves that they make.

One of them shoved me into oncoming traffic.

They were violent.

They were aggressive. And there was no way out.

Stern: They wanted me to help them cover up

what they were doing, and get away with it.

I never, ever, ever, ever thought

that there would actually be repercussions.

Reporter 1: Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander

indicted on three counts of sex trafficking.

- Reporter 2: Sex trafficking. - Reporter 3: Sex trafficking.

Read: Three brothers, allegedly working together.

It's shocking.

[tense music]

- Producer: We good? - Cameraman 1: Speeding.

Cameraman 2: Speed. Rolling.

Producer: So, I want to start with the sort of basics.

Cameraman 1: Lexi, interview. Take one.

Cameraman 2: On the slate. Take one.

[slate clicking]

Producer: Why do you think it's important to tell the story

of the Alexander brothers?

Hmm.

That's a really big one.

When I think about

why I want to tell a story,

I don't want to ever read about

s-- something like this happening again.

It's not just a moment of indiscretion.

It's two and a half decades.

It's important because we have to do it.

This is uncomfortable. I'm sweating my ass off.

You're not paying me.

If everything I say goes on here,

I'm sure I'll get yelled at.

There were just so many parts of the story

that I wanted to understand.

How this behavior started, and what perpetuated it.

[dramatic music playing]

[camera shutter clicking]

Walsh: Oren, Tal, and Alon, the Alexander brothers,

present their lives like an all-American story.

It's like, no, no, we're not--

we're not predators out in the world.

We're like-- we're just, like, a tight family.

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 growing up.

So we've been very close, um, since day one.

Walsh: Oren recognized at an early age

that he could use the media

to create this mythology around himself and his brothers.

Oren: A lot of times we hear and often are referred to

as lucky, you know, beginner's luck.

But the fact is, we've been doing this now

for over a decade.

We've closed three record-breaking transactions,

totaling over half a billion dollars.

We've been able to grow a network

that's unprecedented.

I mean, there's not a person

or a client that we, uh, can't get to.

[suspenseful music playing]

We have this incredible footage of Oren, Tal, and Alon

in their early 20s, for a pilot for a show

that's never been seen by the public before.

Let us introduce you to my twin brother.

- Hey! - Alon: What's up?

Walsh: Oren and Alon are identical twins.

They are both tall, handsome, muscled men...

[chuckles] ...uh, who, um, are--

are attached, basically, at the hip.

So, this is my brother Tal's room.

Walsh: Tal is the eldest of the three.

He's maybe a little bit shorter.

Read: Tal had already moved to New York

and had started his own rental business.

Tal: Welcome to Penthouse A, the Park Imperial.

This is a truly wow apartment.

I felt like Tal rattled off numbers, transactions.

Tal was the decision numbers guy.

About 50% of the transactions that I did

over $10-plus million were all done off-market.

Tal had a reputation of-- of just being tougher,

um, and maybe less charismatic.

Tal is more obsessive with, um, fine clothing.

You know, if you look at his wardrobe, it's all Hermès.

Tal is definitely the most aggressive,

wilder one than all of us,

but he does have the bigger heart than all of us.

People describe Oren as more natural with people.

Oren: The biggest attribute I have is that I'm very sociable.

I'm able to go out, meet people, walk up to anybody,

"What's your name, what do you do?"

Of the three, really, Oren, um, seems to be the ringleader.

Oren Alexander presented himself

as a kind of budding Bond villain...

getting the best deals,

and being as sharky as you can be

without making too many enemies.

Alon and Oren often have come as a package,

so it's sort of hard to describe Alon.

Alon: Never a dull moment.

There is not a night here where everyone's in bed

by nine o'clock, it just doesn't exist.

It's a little difficult for me, I'm a law school student.

Read: Alon wasn't pounding the pavement

as a real estate agent like Oren and Tal.

And very early on decided he wanted to go

into the family business, called Kent Security.

Walsh: All three of them are as close as siblings can be.

Alon: My brothers are my best friends, 100%.

Growing up, our parents always instilled with us

that you're stronger together.

Walsh: The brothers grew up in this part of South Florida

that is all about money and real estate.

Shlomi and Orly, the Alexander brothers' parents,

come to Miami from Israel in the '70s.

Announcer on PA: Welcome to Miami International Airport.

Walsh: They set up this business, Kent Security,

and they start their kind of American dream.

By the time the Alexander brothers are teenagers,

Kent is a big player

in the South Florida security business.

While that's good business,

that's nothing compared to their neighbors.

And this is what provides a chip on the shoulder

of the Alexander brothers, as they see these classmates

and friends who have far more money than they have.

Read: Orly and Shlomi, from what we know,

are both really forceful personalities,

ruthlessly interested in making money.

Walsh: As one person said to me, the lesson was,

step on whoever you need to step on to get ahead in this world.

And that's the lesson that the brothers took from it.

And eventually, their father starts

building and developing homes.

I was going on the weekends with my dad

to the construction sites.

Marx: He was a nurturing dad in some ways.

He'd bring them along to the project site.

Oren: You know, some parents don't talk

business at the table.

My parents, you know, Shabbat dinners were,

you know, board meetings.

It's that kind of single-minded attitude

that the Alexander brothers take with them

when they go into business.

Read: Oren and Tal's first record-breaking deal

came straight from their father, Shlomi.

Shlomi has started to develop this amazing home,

and the perfect guy to market it is Oren.

My name is Barbara Wagner, and I'm a publicist.

I first heard about Oren Alexander in 2010,

when an executive at a real estate agency asked me

if I would be interested in trying to get a major story

about some young brokers who are up and coming,

and they've got a great property in Indian Creek, Miami Beach.

Journalist 1: If you're looking for a beachfront getaway

with plenty of sunlight and big closets,

this number on an exclusive island off Miami

could be yours.

Wagner: So, I met Oren.

He was very, very nice, handsome.

He was extremely personable.

Oren toured me around the property.

Very attractive.

We got a beautiful story in The Wall Street Journal.

It was everything that anybody would have wanted.

Journalist 2: Originally listed for 60 mil,

but it sold for the low, low bargain price of 47 million.

Wagner: It was clearly the very first taste of fame he had,

which he quickly ran away with, and started pushing himself.

I am the number one residential real estate broker

in New York City under 30.

Walsh: They launched this team, The A Team, at Douglas Elliman,

this real estate agency that is on the rise.

It's Tal, Oren, it's, you know, a package deal.

Oren: The Alexander Team travels the globe

searching for high net worth individuals

who have an appetite for luxury real estate.

They started to set records with some of their deals.

Reporter: Ken Griffin just spent $250 million

on a penthouse here in New York.

I met the Alexander brothers about 20 years ago

when all three of us were young agents.

Their ascension was, like, from nothing,

to top 20 in the company within a year or two.

If you know anything about high-end real estate,

you-- you know the Alexander, uh, Group.

[dramatic music playing]

Kallergis: I would say that I first heard rumors

about the Alexander brothers a couple years into my career.

So, I'm Katherine Kallergis, I'm a reporter.

In late 2014, I started working at The Real Deal,

which is a real estate news publication.

So, we have Oren Alexander.

[audience cheering]

The brothers were such a big name in the industry.

These are public figures for us, who we cover.

I differentiate myself from others

to make sure I add value to my clients' lives.

These rumors were

that Tal and Oren and their brother Alon had had...

a-- a questionable reputation with women.

Kallergis: Anybody who told me this kind of thing,

I would ask them, like, "Do you have any information?

Do you know anybody?"

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

Like, they knew a little more than I did.

Kallergis: We had routinely looked for lawsuits

or, like, any police records or anything like that.

But nobody ever had solid details to share with me.

Miller: So, I heard across the industry,

from multiple people,

just danger, just stay away.

And, um, in fact, a friend of mine

who was a top brok-- is a top broker,

she, with a couple of other people,

went to a nice restaurant, and Oren was sitting next to her

and sort of talking about...

sex that they could have.

Like, it was just really inappropriate,

and she was having none of it.

And she left the lunch early...

and told her friends

that she will never do business with them, ever.

[tense music]

And when I learned what they...

really did, that made it...

even more horrible.

[somber music playing]

Oren: Obviously, my brother represents

the other half of The Alexander Team,

and, you know, he's kicking ass in New York.

I-- I think we just were ranked number one in October

for the company, in Douglas Elliman.

Read: As you move up the ladder,

you would think that your behavior would

get better with more eyes on you.

It doesn't seem like that happened.

Kallergis: Dina, you had that billboard, right?

- I did, yes. - Did that bring new buyers?

Oren: I don't know many New York buyers,

uh, hanging out in Times Square,

but as long as it makes you feel good. [laughs]

[audience laughing]

I'm gonna take the high road, and try to keep it classy.

[audience laughing and cheering]

It seems like Tal and Oren, you know,

got more aggressive as they got more successful.

May the best man win. [laughs]

[audience laughs, groans]

Wagner: Whenever I had to deal with Oren,

he was very dismissive, and he would run around me.

I believe that Oren was a big phony

in being so lovely to me until he didn't have to be.

He used me.

Meier: They were the bad ones.

Like, in one case,

I was working on a building called The Wren.

It was six very expensive, luxurious properties,

the peak properties were north of $10 million.

I'd been working on the project for four years.

I had an exclusive.

[cell phone ringing]

All of a sudden I got a phone call from my developers

saying, "Hey, we're gonna fire you

to hire the Alexander brothers." I'm like-- [gasps]

Producer: So just to be clear, basically you're saying

the Alexander brothers essentially

stole a client from you.

Oh, yes, yes, a-- a big client.

Like, it was my baby, I was excited about it,

I put a lot of blood and sweat into it,

and-- and I went to the powers that be and said,

"Hey, that's-- that's not allowed,

what are we gonna do about it?"

"We're on top of it, Brian,

we're gonna call the lawyers, we'll get it.

Who was it that stole it?"

"It's the Alexander brothers."

[sighs] "There'll be other projects, Brian,

there'll be other projects.

Let's not-- let's not go after that one."

I believe one of the main reasons

that the Alexander brothers

had this incredible rise in business

is because their connection with Howard Lorber.

I think Howard Lorber's title was CEO

of Douglas Elliman, but Howard Lorber

didn't need a title, his title was Howard Lorber.

He was the boss, he carried the company.

Read: He was a big player

in the business world in New York.

I think everybody at Douglas Elliman knew that Howard

was kind of like a real estate father figure.

Oren and Alon, you work very hard...

but then you play very hard...

but the playing very hard

doesn't seem to cost you anything.

[guests cheering]

Everybody knew that they liked to party,

and they themselves told anybody

who was listening that they liked to party

with a lot of women all the time, every night.

[somber music]

[VCR whirring]

I like variety in my life, and being with the same girl

two nights in a row just doesn't do it for me.

The guy who goes out and meets two, three

girls a year, and then

you're telling me he falls in love?

He hasn't really seen what's out there.

This footage of Oren, Tal, and Alon

in their early twenties was filmed in 2011

for a pilot for a show, um, about wealthy one-percenters

in New York City, dating, and it's incredibly revealing.

My brothers met the chef at a dinner party,

and, uh, she ended up sleeping with both of them,

and she was so satisfied,

she actually gave us a 50% discount.

- One on the lips? No, just-- - No. [laughs]

[party guests laughing]

Oren: I get a text message from a chick at 4:00 a.m.

She says, "I-- I need a realtor now."

I thought it was like a code word for, "Come fuck me."

I said, "I give full service, you know,

you don't just buy an apartment,

you get the works, completo."

You can't say where, um, Oren's workday ended

and his partying began.

[low hum of chatter]

Oren: I like to have an agenda when I go out.

My goal is to hunt a client and hunt a female.

Read: The brothers called themselves playboys,

but it seems like they didn't just go after

women for themselves.

It was a distinct part of their business strategy.

The biggest key in New York City, I don't care

how much money you have, show up to a place

with two, three hot girls, and everyone

wants to talk to you, and every door is open for you.

That's why buyers and sellers want to give me

the business, because they want to hang out with me.

There was so much crossover between their attitude

towards their business, and their predatory instincts.

Oren: I'm constantly talking to...

20 to 25 different girls via text message a day.

It's almost become a full-time job.

Walsh: In terms of clients, their specialty, of course,

is sort of, like, the recently divorced, super-rich guy.

These recently divorced, super-rich guys are happy

to be out partying with these, uh,

super-good-looking young guys,

who are surrounded by, you know, beautiful women.

There's these messages that we have access to that give

a lot of insight into how the brothers operated.

They thought of themselves as hunters.

And women were their prey.

This one says...

There are these messages as the brothers

are planning a trip to Tulum,

and they plan on bringing women.

Here's Oren...

"Just wanna make sure we get a good ROI."

ROI, of course, "return on investment", quota.

Women are the business. It's-- They are a product.

They are... apartments,

to be bought, sold, and traded.

Zettle: I'm from a small town in Oregon.

I had big dreams of being an actress,

so I moved to New York City.

Bought a one-way ticket.

[pensive music]

I was working at Bounce Sporting Club

in Manhattan.

When I met Tal Alexander,

and his brother Alon,

they were very successful and elite.

I was introduced to them by my bosses.

I'm Tal Alexander of the Alexander Team,

and here we are in the heart of Tribeca,

and I'm about to give you a tour of the crown jewel of downtown.

Tal was very charming, very suave,

very handsome, and I think I was drawn

from the beginning, like a moth to the flame.

There was just something about him.

And I think Tal was a bit smitten with me.

There was definitely some connection there.

He convinced my boss to let me get off work early,

and I went out with him and his brother that night.

And for me to even be out on a Friday night, partying,

and not working, it was exciting.

[low hum of chatter]

And then, um...

Tal invited me to the Bahamas that weekend,

and I was like, "What do you mean? Like...

I can't get off work, obviously."

And he was like, "I know your bosses,

like, I'll talk to them."

I found that attractive, yeah,

because it felt like he could move mountains.

It impressed me.

I was like, "This is a whole new world."

He said things, he made promises, like, you know...

he's gonna introduce me to all the right people.

Soon I won't have to waitress ever again.

I'm gonna, you know, be introduced to, like, the elite.

Tal: I've been involved in this great organization for 17 years.

I'd like to pledge $18,000.

[audience applauds]

Zettle: He knows everybody.

Him and his brothers did, they were so well-connected.

On behalf of some very generous friends,

Steve Witkoff, uh, $10,000.

[cheering and applauding]

Zettle: I started going to dinners

with him and his brothers.

And they had, like, billionaire friends...

and people that they did business with.

I just remember the first dinner I think he took me out on.

It was, like, probably, like, ten of us

sitting around a big table.

The twins were there, Oren and Alon.

Tal sat next to me,

and then on the other side of me

was a billionaire friend/client of his,

and he just was, like, talking up this billionaire...

making him seem really cool to me.

I was confused, but he just-- he told me, like--

he said, "Why don't you go to the bathroom

and make him happy, Lex?"

And I don't think my-- my head could, like...

I could wrap around, like, what was actually happening.

I didn't--

I just remember, like...

Tal putting his hand on my leg,

like, underneath the table, and being like,

"You can do this for me or you can go the fuck home."

Zettle: So I think I wasn't processing it at the time.

It was just so scary.

And then my mind was so quick

to craft these delusions, like, you know,

"Oh, he just wants me to make him jealous...

and at some point, he's gonna love me."

I went into that restroom-bathroom, and...

I followed orders.

Um... yeah.

And then when I got back to the table,

they, like, popped a bottle of champagne,

and I just remember...

the twins clapping.

One of the girls at the table became my friend over time.

Later she told me that, like--

she's like, "Lexi, you had one drink at that dinner.

And then we got back to that billionaire's apartment,

and you were just gone.

You were just inebriated."

She goes, "Lexi, there's no way they didn't drug you that night.

No way."

And I don't know. Like, I just have flashes of that night.

I remember being in the-- the bedroom

with this billionaire client of Tal's, and...

him undressing me...

and Tal standing in the corner

undoing his zipper, and...

then he masturbated in the corner

while watching me with the client.

It's just such a weird thing.

Like, it's just so bizarre that your mind can't wrap--

you can't wrap your head around it. Like, there's...

Nobody can predict the type of stuff,

the little moves that they-- they make, the little plays.

Like, first of all, at that point,

it's not one person in the room with me, it's two men.

It's two against one.

If I did wanna run or scream or do something about it--

not that I could 'cause I was so out of it,

I don't even think my body could function--

but even if I did, it's two against one.

What am I gonna do?

I think Tal was very happy with me.

He probably closed a business deal after that.

He probably sold this billionaire another apartment.

Like, who knows what type of business was happening

because Tal and his brothers

were entertaining these people...

and giving them something that, you know,

they weren't getting in their regular life.

I couldn't actually acknowledge the fact that he betrayed me,

harmed me, loaned me out to a business client.

I remember him making threats at several points, saying that,

like, he would ruin me if I really walked out of his life.

So I was scared to death.

I don't think I've even begun to, like,

really admit what happened to me

or, like, process that he's actually a monster.

Walsh: Who enabled them?

Who protected them?

It's not as if they were out there partying on their own.

They were surrounded by, you know, adults.

Like, how does that-- how does that happen?

Marx: It's really hard to get under the hood

to understand inside the company what was known by whom and when,

but clearly senior executives inside Douglas Elliman

knew that the brothers were very interested in sexual conquest.

In 2011, we got this extraordinary email

from a man that seems to be Oren's boss, and he writes:

"Congrats, Oren. Nonstop networking."

It says, "Can bang more than one girl at a time.

Ability to adjust quickly if doing a 2 on 1.

Won't take no for an answer from any hoe."

I don't think a head of HR would necessarily be happy

with that kind of email,

and yet, from what we know, no action was ever taken.

Read: Unfortunately, this behavior toward women

only scratches the surface

of allegations.

I'm perfectly okay with being considered a playboy.

I don't think it's a derogatory word.

I think everyone wants to be that.

Read: The Alexander brothers' playboy image

wasn't exactly unique or unheard of.

In the 2010s, there was a popular celebration

of macho hedonism.

At the same time, we have this rise

of the celebrity broker thanks to

Million Dollar Listing.

I remember when I was on it. I was on it for eight seconds.

My first episode. It was eight seconds.

I had, like, three words to say.

I think my price might be

a little bit high for what you're selling.

People would stop me in the elevator.

What Million Dollar Listing did

was made real estate agents sexy,

made the industry sexy.

Johnston: The Alexander brothers really cultivated an image.

What does it mean if you're a playboy or a womanizer?

I'm Dr. Joni Johnston,

a clinical and forensic psychologist

and private investigator.

I just became very interested in understanding,

so I began doing so much research

and finding as much as I could about the Alexander brothers.

They talked openly about being, like, womanizers,

and they had a reputation for that.

Johnston: And so it was easy, I think, for other people

to excuse some of the warning signs.

M.S.: Oren, I met in April of 2014.

Um, he messaged me on Facebook just randomly.

And I thought, "Oh, he's kind of handsome,

We have mutual friends. Why not?

When I get to the location,

there's a big group, like ten people already there.

So we're there, like, an hour and a half to two hours,

and then he turns my way and he says,

"Hey, we're going to an after-party.

Would you like to join?"

Acree: So I was out with my friends at a club...

and Oren was there.

I had met him one time before,

and he invited me

to an after-party at his apartment.

We get to the apartment building.

I remember, um...

the sound of my high heels on the floor.

It was very quiet.

And immediately, I...

had just this odd, creepy feeling, um,

and nothing was normal going forward.

His whole demeanor changed.

It was...

like being held hostage.

And he took my phone,

um, and he took my shoes.

And I remember him opening a closet,

and there were a pile

of women's high heels in there.

And that's when it was like,

"Oh, my God." Like American Psycho.

I couldn't leave.

I remember looking out the window at a certain point,

thinking to myself,

"If I jump out the window,

am I gonna break my legs?"

And he sexually assaulted me.

[sighs shakily]

[tense music]

M.S.: I was, like, fascinated by the mansion.

You feel like you're in a whole other place,

like you're in Italy.

And then Oren comes down the stairs,

and he said, "Would you like to come up and see the view?"

[♪]

M.S.: We go up there. It's dark.

All of a sudden, he turns me around...

and, you know, just forcefully started kissing me.

I said, "Hey, calm down.

Like, we can kiss, make out, but, like,

this is a little aggressive."

When I told him calm down, he got angrier...

and that's when he started undressing me.

I tried to push him more,

but he got very angry that he pushed me to the floor.

I remember I hit my head.

And he was saying, "Shut up, shut up, shut up."

I remember I had a dress on.

He starts pulling off my underwear...

and still yelling at me to shut up, shut up.

And then I realized that, "Wow, he's gonna rape me,"

and then I just froze. [sighs]

That time I was thinking, "Okay, maybe if I stop,

you know, fighting, he's gonna--

[inhales shakily]

He's just gonna, you know--

[sniffles, stammers]

he's gonna finish as-- you know, as fast as possible."

[sniffles]

And, you know, the pain...

[exhales]

When he pulls out, he finishes on me,

and...

[exhales] And then...

you know, the smirk on his face just changes

from this evil-- I still remember, you know,

the look that he gave me from the evil eyes, like...

it was a whole completely different guy.

And he just looked at me, he was like, "Oh, that was good."

He puts himself together and just walks out.

I felt like a piece of garbage.

Acree: You don't-- you don't want to--

you don't wanna recognize it happened.

You can't. You move on.

And the best thing you can do is just...

pretend like it never happened.

M.S.: When I got home...

I was thinking, "Should I go to the police? Should I not?

Who do I tell? Do I tell?"

I was scared.

He comes from a powerful, you know, family.

I stayed quiet a long time.

Acree: One of the hardest things for me about

this entire experience is to come to understand

why people would do that to other people,

and how people could be so intentionally cruel.

M.S.: They partied.

They lived a good life...

while me and, you know, other victims, we had to live with--

I mean, to this day, I still live with this trauma.

Read: In the 2020s,

all three brothers seemed to have settled down.

Walsh: First Alon gets married.

Then Oren.

Finally Tal gets married.

Oren's wedding at a small little Key West resort

is featured in Vogue.

Read: Settling down was certainly a shift

in their image, and you had to wonder

whether they were hoping

it would distract from their past.

"I love you today, tomorrow, and forever."

[guests cheering]

Read: Around the same time,

they opened their own real estate business, Official.

Official was pitched as the 1% of the 1% agency

for the most luxurious, exotic places in the world.

Man: Kiss her on the mouth, Alon. Yes.

Read: Trying to get to an even higher place,

an even more exclusive place in terms of clientele.

Walsh: The marketing videos for Official

are really sleek, highly produced.

They kind of look like the intro to Succession.

They brand themselves as the top real estate firm

for the richest people in the world,

people who fly private and spend summers on yachts

and live above the clouds in Manhattan and Beverly Hills.

It seemed like they were poised to be on top of the world.

Marx: But in 2021,

then you have this message from one brother to the other.

Warning him.

"The only thing that can bring us down now

is a woman complaining."

Read: The brothers clearly seemed to know

that there were plenty of women who could expose them.

It was just a question of, would they come forward?

[somber music]

Kallergis: Early June 2024,

I got a call from a source of mine

who suggested that something might be

going on with the brothers.

I covered Miami and South Florida,

so I searched in Miami-Dade County public records

to see if there had been anything.

I didn't see anything, and then I called Sheridan,

my colleague in New York.

So Katherine asked me if I could look in New York.

I found two lawsuits against Oren and Alon.

Kallergis: They had been sitting in the dockets for a few months

and nobody had seen them.

Wall: Not only were the allegations horrific,

it was also,

they both alleged Oren and Alon took turns raping them.

And then the fact that they were brothers, I mean,

it is pretty shocking.

Kallergis: It was significant that we had two lawsuits

with two different women, different timelines.

These were not anonymous women. These were not Jane Does.

These were women who used their names to file.

So it's harder to say, like, this is just made up.

There was a moment where we all were like, "This is it."

We knew we had to write a story.

Nobody thought that it would get this big.

And the comment section on our Instagram account,

just unbelievable, I've never seen anything like that.

Some people said, "I know somebody who this happened to."

Some people said, "This happened to me."

One particularly haunting comment said something like,

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

Wall: They took on a life of its own.

It seemed at this point that it was gonna be

much bigger than these two women.

Shortly after, another woman filed a lawsuit,

which included allegations of being raped by Tal.

So now it was all three brothers that were involved.

Wagner: I had always heard rumors about Oren,

but the three brothers

was shocking, horrifying, disgusting,

worse than anything I could imagine,

and it just kept getting worse and worse.

M.S.: When I saw the photo, I was like,

"Wait a second, I remember him. Is that Oren?"

The thing that stood out the most was,

most of the patterns or stories, they were similar to mine.

Zettle: When that Real Deal article dropped...

yeah, my life really took a turn.

Acree: The Real Deal article brought everything back

to this place of emotion

that I had put away for so long.

Hofeldt: A lot of people know about my story.

I mean, I was very vocal about it.

Zettle: I'm like, "Oh, my God." I picked up the phone,

I was shaking as I called Evan Torgan,

the lawyer listed in the article.

My name is Evan Torgan, and I'm an attorney.

Things were never the same once that article ran

on any level whatsoever.

So we started getting e-mails and phone calls.

Hofeldt: My friend from high school messaged me,

and they're like, "They're looking for other people

that this has happened to.

You should contact a lawyer."

The shocking thing to me was how many women called.

First it was 10, then it was 20,

then it was 30, then it was 40.

Acree: I called the number, and they were like,

"Our phones have been, like, off the hook."

I didn't envision it was gonna snowball

into me having a lot of clients.

That was a very freeing moment...

when I told somebody, and they actually listened.

Acree: I had no idea what I was getting myself into,

and then it just sort of was, like, from there, like--

like...

insanity.

Torgan: It was just an incredible responsibility now.

Because it wasn't just my clients,

it was people who called me confidentially.

They wanted vindication, and they wanted justice.

They wanted society to know what had happened to them.

I just realized that this was something

that was much bigger than me.

Marx: Within a few months, there's an FBI investigation.

There's a Miami Police investigation.

Marx: And for the first time really in their lives,

there is a net closing around these men

who have skated responsibility for more than 20 years.

Stern: I think the deeper story here

is, how did they do this for so long?

I mean, so long.

Read: We're talking about three brothers in one family.

What happened to make them turn out this way?

The key is to go back to their childhood in Miami.

Elias: The boys were boasting about

having gang-banged somebody.

I was horrified.

Man: He was showing us a video on a camcorder,

and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

- [school bell ringing] - Read: A freshman girl

came into school one day hysterically crying.

The way that these kids acted, they never had any guardrails.

Bassett: It seems like for them, it spiraled

and went completely out of control.

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪