The high-level broker and “Million Dollar Listing” star alleged that Oren Alexander drugged her and sexually assaulted her and another unnamed man during a 2014 recruiting event at Douglas Elliman.
High-end broker and Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star Tracy Tutor has filed a lawsuit against her former broker, Oren Alexander, alleging sexual assault and human trafficking as she awaits a jury verdict in her federal sex trafficking case.
When allegations about the Alexander brothers began to surface in 2024, Tutor told The New York Times that she believed they were used at real estate cocktail receptions for top producers.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York, Tutor claims that as part of her recruitment efforts for Skylark, she flew from Los Angeles to New York on Douglas Elliman’s plane to attend a reception for top agents at Skylark. The reception was reportedly hosted by former company leaders Howard Lorber and Dottie Herman. The NYT first reported on Tutor’s lawsuit.
Mr. Inman has contacted Douglas Elliman for comment.
The tutor claims that after dinner, he drank a drink that someone did not order and then passed out shortly afterward. The tutor recently learned that she had left the table at some point during dinner, and Elliman agent Corey Weiss went looking for her, according to the complaint.
Weiss found Oren “kissing her, his shirt off, and Tutor acting ‘insane'” in a stall in the men’s bathroom, according to the complaint. The complaint then goes on to say that “on information and belief, [Oren] He was touching her intimate areas for his own sexual gratification. ”
The tutor claims that Ms. Weiss confronted Oren, realized that the tutor was out of character, took Oren back to the dinner table, and asked someone to make sure the tutor returned to his hotel room that night. Weiss herself was “upset by the interaction” and “concerned for her job security” and left the dinner without fully realizing that Tutor had been drugged, according to the complaint.
However, the tutor claims that she woke up the next morning in an unknown hotel room after being sexually assaulted. She calls Weiss and advises her to call security. A guard came into the room to help her as well as Weiss.
“Later that day, Mr. Weiss managed to recover the tutor’s purse from Mr. Oren’s assistant, who according to information and belief was a woman named Sarah Williams,” the complaint adds.
Oren’s attorney, Jason Goldman, said Tutor and his lawyers timed their “sneaky” lawsuit “to maximize media impact, despite the fact that the allegations date back more than a decade and have already been publicly aired.”
“We are confident that the jury will focus on the evidence presented in court and not on opportunistic litigation tactics,” Goldman added.
The suit alleges that Tutor never fully pieced together what happened that night and suppressed the memory. But when allegations against Oren and his brothers, Tal and Aron, began to surface in the media, “painful memories came flooding back,” Tutor’s complaint says. It wasn’t until Tutor looked back on his memories with Weiss in 2024 that he was able to remember more about what happened, according to the suit.
The suit also alleges that after Tutor was named as Oren’s victim in a 2024 New York Times article, another man, who is not named in the lawsuit, called Tutor during a family vacation and left a voicemail saying, “I’m sorry.”
The tutor is requesting a jury trial.
Closing arguments in the federal trial of Oren, Tal and Aron concluded Wednesday, with prosecutors claiming the brothers used a “strategy” to traffick and assault dozens of women over several years.
Meanwhile, the defense team argued that the plaintiffs were trying to equate “disgusting” and inappropriate behavior on the part of the brothers with a crime. The brothers continue to deny all charges against them.
The jury began deliberating Thursday and could reach a verdict in the case as early as Friday.
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