Victim wanted to drop Alexander brother's sex assault case, defense attorneys say

Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald on Oct 21, 2025

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MIAMI — Attorneys for one of the Alexander brothers is asking the judge to sanction the lead prosecutor because new witness testimony indicates the victim wanted to drop the case, according to court documents filed Monday night.

In the 95-page motion filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, attorneys Edward O’Donnell and Joel Denaro — who are representing Oren Alexander — accused state prosecutor Natalie Snyder of not disclosing the victim’s wishes to not move forward with the case and shielding the victim from testifying in a deposition. The lengthy motion includes snippets of a deposition of the victim’s friend, who testified the victim told her she was withdrawing her case.

The attorneys requested Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lody Jean to sanction Snyder. They also seek to bar prosecutors from calling the victim as a witness if she fails to appear for a deposition within the next 10 days.

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office told the Herald Tuesday that the victim agreed to be deposed, indicating that she intends to move forward with the prosecution.

Oren Alexander, 38, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at his Miami Beach home on Oct. 25, 2021. The victim reported the assault to Miami Beach detectives in September 2024. Additionally, he is facing a charge of raping a woman in Miami Beach in 2017.

He and his twin brother, Alon Alexander, have also been charged with sexual battery on a woman at a New Year’s Eve Party in 2016 in Miami Beach. The twins have pleaded not guilty to the state charges and to federal sex trafficking charges in New York. Their older brother Tal has also pleaded not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges. The three brothers are being held in a federal detention center in Brooklyn.

In the alleged attack on Oct. 25, 2021, the victim’s friend told Oren’s defense attorneys earlier this month that she spoke to the victim after she received a subpoena to testify. The friend, according to the deposition transcript, told her, “I withdrew my case; I don’t know why they’re reached out to you.”

Snyder, the prosecutor, also stated the victim was unavailable for a deposition until January because she lived abroad, the court filing says. However, the victim’s friend testified that she ran into the victim in Miami Beach on Oct. 4.

Alexander’s legal team had set the victim’s deposition for Oct. 8.

“It should be noted that neither Assistant State Attorney informed the undersigned that the witness, whom they claimed could not be deposed until January because of her work schedule, was in Miami Beach just four days earlier and possibly still in Miami,” the document says.

In the filing, the defense claimed the criminal cases against the Alexander brothers stemmed from the State Attorney’s Office collaborating with lawyers who were representing the accusers in civil suits. Snyder, according to the filing, called attorneys for other victims after their stories were reported in the media.

A hearing on the motion is set for Nov. 4.

The Alexander brothers’ legal woes began in 2024 as women came forward and filed civil lawsuits saying they were sexually assaulted by the twins and their older brother Tal. More than two dozen women in New York and South Florida have sued them for damages.

State and federal prosecutors say Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander used their fame and wealth to lure women to their Miami Beach and New York homes and on trips to other cities, even out of the country. The three brothers were arrested in their Miami Beach homes in December.

The women, prosecutors say, were often drugged before they were raped. During a federal hearing in New York, a witness told the judge more than four dozen women who prosecutors consider credible have come forward with allegations about the brothers.

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