Three brothers, including two prominent luxury real estate brokers, have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a sex trafficking case involving allegations of drugging and raping women over several years.

Tal Alexander, 40, and twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 39, were found guilty in March of luring women to parties and luxury properties, where prosecutors said they sexually assaulted them.

Sentencing took place in a New York court, where Judge Valerie Caproni condemned their conduct.

“Your conduct was monstrous,” Caproni said, adding that their crimes had caused devastating harm to the victims.

The judge also imposed additional 20-year sentences for other offences but ordered that the sentences run concurrently, meaning the brothers will serve them at the same time.

Before sentencing, 12 victims addressed the court, including one woman who had not testified during the trial.

Several described the psychological consequences of the assaults and urged the judge to impose the maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

Maya Miller told the court that after Tal Alexander raped her in 2014, she lost her sense of safety.

“I carry a quiet funeral within me for the person I might’ve become if this never happened to me,” she said.

Another victim, identified by the pseudonym Isa Brooks, said she lost the ability to trust herself after being raped by Tal and Alon Alexander when she was 16.

“I had no idea the danger I was in till it was too late,” she told the court.

Another woman alleged that Tal Alexander threatened her when she planned to report a rape, saying he knew where her sister worked.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Espinosa argued that the brothers deserved life sentences, citing the severity and repeated nature of the crimes.

She said they had spent years using promises of luxury to lure women, adding that the evidence presented a devastating account of the harm caused.

During the five-week trial, 11 women testified that the brothers had offered them gifts and trips to destinations including Aspen and the Bahamas before allegedly giving them drugs and sexually assaulting them.

Some of the women said they were minors when the assaults occurred.

Prosecutors alleged that the brothers drugged women’s drinks, physically restrained victims and continued assaults despite their objections and requests to stop.

The brothers continued to deny wrongdoing during the sentencing hearing.

Their lawyers had asked the judge to impose 15-year sentences, arguing that the men had become devoted fathers and that their imprisonment would also affect their families.

Tal Alexander told the court that they had adopted a “work-hard, play-hard mentality” and said he understood that his behaviour had hurt people’s feelings.

The judge, however, questioned whether rehabilitation was possible without an acknowledgement of wrongdoing.

“How can someone who never acknowledged the wrongs they did be rehabilitated?” Caproni asked.

Tal and Oren Alexander built high-profile careers selling luxury properties in New York and Miami.

They previously worked for real estate company Douglas Elliman, whose clients have included celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. In 2022, the two brothers founded their own New York-based firm, Official.

Their brother Alon worked at the family’s private security company, Kent Security.

Prosecutors said the brothers’ abusive behaviour dated back to their high school years, although the crimes examined at trial began in 2008.

The convictions and sentences mark a major legal reckoning for the brothers, whose careers had been associated with the luxury property market.