One of the women who accused Oren and Alon Alexander of sexual assault was found dead last year.
Whiteman was one of two women who sued the brothers under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. The Real Deal first reported the lawsuits in June 2024, which kicked off a wave of women coming forward with similar allegations against twins Oren and Alon, along with older brother Tal, that culminated in their December 2024 arrests.
Whiteman was found dead near Sydney, Australia, The New York Times reported. Her death is under investigation and a cause of death has not been determined. Her attorney, Evan Torgan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Whiteman was 45.
Whiteman sued the twin brothers under a New York provision, which allowed survivors to sue their perpetrators regardless of when the alleged attacks occurred. The law created a lookback window between Nov. 23, 2022, and Nov. 23, 2023. Whiteman initiated her lawsuit, which also named music producer Ivan Wilzig as a defendant but did not accuse him of rape, one day before the period expired.
Before the 2024 lawsuit, Whiteman had previously filed a summons in 2022 against the same three defendants, but did not file a complaint and that case ultimately did not move forward.
Whiteman met Oren and Alon in New York City around 2008 and continued to run into them in social circles, including at a nightclub in the Hamptons in 2012, according to the complaint. She alleges that Alon grabbed her outside of a nightclub and ushered her into a car with Oren, which took her to a party at Sir Ivan’s Castle, a mansion in Water Mill owned by Wilzig.
In a garage at the home, she claimed the brothers locked up her phone and forced her to change into sarong. She alleges that when she tried to run away, a security guard “dragged her back.” The twins then brought her into another room and raped her, according to the complaint.
The brothers have repeatedly denied all allegations.
They are set to go to trial later this month on federal sex trafficking charges. In multiple indictments, prosecutors have alleged that between 2008 and 2021, Oren, Tal and Alon participated in a conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. They allege that the brothers worked together to repeatedly and violently drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of women, some of whom were minors at the time of the alleged attacks.
The brothers filed a lawsuit against TRD in June alleging defamation and in part disputing coverage that excluded materials the brothers had provided to try to discredit victims.
TRD Publisher Amir Korangy pushed back on the claims in the suit, telling the Wall Street Journal, “We are confident the courts will see this for what it is—a frivolous and cynical attempt to weaponize the legal system.”
Korangy told the Times Thursday that messages, photographs and other materials the brothers accused TRD of improperly excluding were not fit to report alongside her allegations.
“The Alexanders provided those materials off the record,” Korangy told the outlet. “We couldn’t verify, and it didn’t prove they did not assault her. It didn’t merit us not doing a story on the accusations.”
This article has been updated with additional comment from TRD Founder and Publisher Amir Korangy.
