‘I was so scared’: US trial witnesses allege Alexander brothers worked together to rape women

Real estate agent brothers Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander - known as closers' - are on trial in New York for sex trafficking

In their time as real estate brokers, the Israeli-American Alexander brothers - twins Alon and Oren and older brother Tal - were known as closers", the salesmen who could a get a sale over finish line, often to wealthy hedge funders who were then making hay in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

Their technique, one real estate expert explained outside the 26th floor of the federal court house in lower Manhattan last week, was based on the sense that the property salesmen were just like their clients" - young, eager and successful. Kim Kardashian and then-husband Kanye West, Jared and Ivanka Trump were clients.