tracy tutor, a real estate broker who starred on six seasons of the Bravo series “Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, ” has filed a federal civil suit alleging sexual assault by Oren Alexander after a 2014 recruiting event in New York. Her lawsuit was filed Thursday in New York federal court as the Alexander brothers face a criminal trial now in deliberations.
Tracy Tutor’s Allegations from a 2014 New York Recruiting Event
In the papers filed Thursday in New York federal court, Tutor said Douglas Elliman paid for her to fly from Los Angeles to New York for a networking reception, and that at a dinner after the reception she took a drink she did not order and blacked out. The lawsuit alleges that a friend identified as Cory Weiss later found Tutor in a men’s restroom stall with Oren Alexander kissing her with his shirt open and that Alexander was touching her in intimate areas for his own sexual gratification.
Oren Alexander and the Manhattan Federal Trial Underway
Oren Alexander, his brother Tal Alexander, and Alon Alexander are standing trial in Manhattan federal court on sex trafficking and other sex crime charges. Prosecutors have alleged a decade-long scheme in which the brothers raped and drugged dozens of women and girls, and a six-man, six-woman jury began deliberations Thursday after five weeks of testimony. The brothers face sentences that prosecutors say could reach life behind bars; the men have vehemently denied the federal charges and other allegations.
Responses from Legal Teams and Other Civil Claims Named with Tracy Tutor
Jason Goldman, an attorney representing Alexander in civil litigation, called Tutor’s lawsuit “salacious and demonstrably false, ” and said that Tutor and her attorney Roberta Kaplan timed the filing for maximum media impact on the eve of jury deliberations. Kaplan, who previously represented E. Jean Carroll in her cases, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Tutor, who now works for Compass and who has worked as a broker in California and Texas, is listed in the court filing as one of a number of women who have brought civil suits against the Alexander brothers.
For tracy tutor, the filing lays a civil claim alongside a criminal process that is moving toward a verdict. The civil complaint details the alleged 2014 encounter and names Douglas Elliman as the firm that paid for her travel to the recruiting event where the encounter is alleged to have occurred.
Her suit adds to a cluster of civil litigation surrounding the same defendants while the Manhattan trial proceeds. Prosecutors presented five weeks of testimony before the jury began deliberations Thursday, and the civil case now proceeds on a separate track in federal court.
For now, the opening detail of this story remains the same person named at its start: tracy tutor has placed her claim in federal court. The next confirmed development is the jury’s deliberations in Manhattan, which began Thursday and will determine the outcome of the criminal trial that overlaps with the newly filed civil allegations.
