Tal Alexander’s Messages from Jail Detail Divorce Saga

Tal Alexander is trying to call the shots in his estranged marriage from a Brooklyn jail as he awaits his federal sex trafficking trial, Real Tactics Pro has learned.

A recent filing in the couple’s divorce case includes messages he sent from the Metropolitan Detention Center in which he allegedly threatens his wife, Arielle, to “think twice” about moving forward with a divorce and describes himself as the victim.

Arielle is currently fighting to divorce Tal in New York courts. Tal told Arielle that “the divorce will be a ‘war’ unless she agreed to do things his way,” according to a verbal conversation cited in Arielle’s motion to dismiss a Florida divorce complaint made by Tal.

Disgraced broker Tal and his younger brothers, twins Oren and Alon, were arrested in December on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking charges. Oren and Alon are also facing state charges in Florida of sexual battery. All three brothers have been sued in civil court by women who accuse them of drugging and sexually assaulting them.

The brothers have denied the allegations.

Tal and Oren worked as top brokers at Douglas Elliman before co-founding their Side-backed brokerage, Official Partners, while Alon worked as an executive at the family’s private security firm.

“I’m the victim”

Arielle filed for divorce from Tal on Jan. 19 in New York, where she gave birth to the couple’s first child in November and where the couple has lived since they married in October 2023. Three days after she filed, Tal submitted his own complaint in Florida.

Arielle’s attorneys are pushing for the divorce to continue in New York, where she claims the couple and their newborn child lived before Tal’s arrest.

“Tal’s efforts to control Arielle, even from behind bars, and to dictate where she and their son live based on falsities and misrepresentations, should not be permitted,” the motion states.

Even in private messages with Arielle, Tal maintained his innocence, claiming his accusers are “financially motivated.” He alleged that he was “being unfairly prosecuted” and was plotting a comeback in the event the charges against him were cleared.

“I’m the victim remember that,” Tal wrote in a message to Arielle. “Once that all comes out and when the facts come out this whole thing turns around.”

Tal Alexander’s Messages from Jail Reveal Alleged Threats

“You need to put things in perspective, don’t forget where you came from.”

Allegations in the filing that Tal used threats and intimidation echo claims from federal authorities and accusers who say that Tal used the threat of lawsuits and police reports to keep his accusers quiet. (Neither Tal, nor his brothers, have been charged with intimidation.)

An attorney for Arielle did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Days after Arielle filed for divorce, Tal told her via prison messaging that the lease on their 432 Park Avenue apartment was set to end in March and instructed her in a message to “start looking for another place ASAP.” However, Tal had previously extended the lease until March 2026, according to a copy of the agreement included in the motion.

Tal “demanded multiple times” that Arielle allow his former Official Partners colleague, Marc Riedel, to show the apartment to prospective tenants. Additionally, Riedel, now an agent with Serhant, told her she would face eviction and a potential lawsuit if she didn’t vacate the apartment, the filing states.

“Tal orchestrated the early lease termination on the Marital Residence to put Arielle in the position of having—literally—nowhere to go,” the filing states. “Tal, ever the businessman, conducted the apartment circus from his jail cell, communicating constantly with Mr. Riedel and other real estate colleagues, and potential clients.”

Riedel, who represents the apartment’s owner, said that despite the previously-signed extension, the lease was expiring. He added that Arielle refused to allow them to show the apartment and find a new tenant, as required by New York law.

“I informed the tenant of what was in the works legally and the risks as I did not want them to be hurt by this, from there it was up to the tenant,” Riedel said in a statement. “Almost immediately the tenant began allowing access.”

An attorney for Tal in a statement dismissed the filing as “irrelevant to the issues before the Court.”

“The filings are replete with falsehoods and mischaracterizations. Mr. Alexander’s sole concern remains the well-being of their son,” said attorney Danielle R. Petitti. “He will not engage in public mudslinging, no matter how inflammatory or unfounded the allegations made against him may be.”

Parental assistance

Many of Tal’s threats and actions against Arielle were orchestrated by his parents, according to the motion. Shlomy, Tal’s father, is a luxury spec home developer in South Florida, while his mother, Orly, co-founded the family business, Kent Security.

In a timeline included in the filing, Arielle alleges Orly and Shlomy, upon learning about the divorce in December, “changed on a dime.”

“They began to terrorize, harass and scare me, acting as their son’s agent and proxy from federal prison,” Arielle wrote in the filing.

Arielle hired divorce attorney Daniel Nottes on Dec. 20. She allegedly told Orly two days later that she planned to divorce Tal, and on Christmas told Orly that she had no intention of harming Tal.

“I just wanted to divorce amicably and quietly,” Arielle wrote. “When I told her, she was not understanding, told me I should be standing by my husband, and questioned my morals, among other disrespectful statements she made to me.”

In mid-January, the day before a federal trial in New York, Orly and Shlomy allegedly entered Tal and Arielle’s apartment at 432 Park Avenue without Arielle’s consent. Arielle wrote in her motion for a protective order that the brothers’ parents stole $50,000 in cash that belonged to Arielle, two Rolex watches, three Patek Philippe watches, wine, cigars and other expensive items collectively worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“None of this was done with my permission, and in fact this was all done over my telling [Orly and Shlomy] not to touch anything,” Arielle wrote.

Without the protective order, Arielle said her parents-in-law would “continue to do what they want, when they want — even if it means crossing state lines, flying to New York from Miami to trespass upon my home, and steal whatever is left after their ransacking …. not to mention their current efforts to render me and our child homeless, and terrorize, annoy, alarm and intimate [sic] us.”

On Jan. 16, two days after gaining access to the apartment, Orly contacted a broker to place the 432 Park unit up for rent and sell the furnishings at a profit, according to the filing.

TRD previously reported that Arielle vacated the apartment in advance of the lease expiring on April 1, one week after the owner of the unit served Tal with a nonpayment notice for allegedly failing to pay rent for March.

The unit, asking $55,000 a month, is under contract, according to a Streeteasy listing.

The broker has touted his unit at CIM Group and Macklowe Properties’ supertall as part of his “pinnacle lifestyle” in New York City.

He started renting at the Billionaires’ Row property in 2019 and has lived in New York for 12 years, according to the filing. In his divorce filing, though, Tal claims to have been a Florida resident.

Earlier this year, Shlomy was shopping the family’s Miami Beach properties, seeking more than $50 million for Oren’s 10,000-square-foot home. Among the other properties is Tal’s half-acre waterfront lot at 2687 Flamingo Drive, which he bought for $3.1 million in 2020 but listing websites value between $6.5 million and $12.6 million.The brothers’ federal trial is set for January 2026. Prosecutors said earlier this year that they planned to expand the charges against the brothers in a superseding indictment.