Australian woman who accused NY party circuit twins of sexual assault found dead in Sydney

By Debra Kamin January 16, 2026 — 8.09am Save Log in , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Kate Whiteman, the Australian woman whose accusation of sexual assault against twin brothers Oren and Alon Alexander opened the floodgates for dozens of similar allegations from women across the globe, was found dead near Sydney late last year. She was 45. Her death, which has not been previously reported, was confirmed by a spokesperson for the NSW coroner and is under investigation. Oren Alexander in court in Miami, Florida, in late 2024. Credit: Bloomberg A cause of death has not been officially determined, the spokesperson said, but investigations are prompted only when there are doubts about whether the death was the result of “natural causes”. Whiteman sued Oren Alexander, a high-profile real estate agent, and his twin brother, Alon, in March 2024. She said she met the brothers, regulars on the New York party circuit, at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012 and they forced her into an SUV as she was leaving. They drove her to the Hamptons, she said, where she was assaulted at Sir Ivan’s Castle, a party mansion in the Southampton town of Water Mill. Her accusations were followed the next day by a lawsuit from Rebecca Mandel, who accused the brothers of drugging and then assaulting her at a party in Manhattan in 2010. Mandel described consuming a drink – her first of the evening – that Alon had handed to her before her memory went hazy. Oren’s twin brother, Alon Alexander. Credit: Bloomberg But in the lawsuit, she recalled Oren forcefully penetrating her while Alon held her down. She said they then switched places and the assault continued, according to the lawsuit. The brothers have denied all allegations. Their lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Whiteman’s death. Advertisement Evan Torgan, Whiteman’s lawyer, declined to comment. Text messages and compromising photographs between Whiteman and the brothers had been leaked to The Daily Mail , which ran a story in July with a headline claiming that “raunchy nude-filled sexts threaten to blow the case wide open”. A Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department image of Alon, left, and Oren Alexander. Credit: AP Oren Alexander had been one of the top-earning real estate brokers in New York alongside his older brother Tal Alexander, who was his partner first at the brokerage Douglas Elliman, and then at Official, a boutique luxury brokerage the two founded in 2022. They regularly smashed real estate records, including with the 2019 sale of a nearly $US240 million penthouse – at the time, the most expensive residential sale in US history. Alon Alexander, who worked as an executive at his family’s private security company, was his brothers’ regular sidekick at social events and private clubs from Mykonos to Miami. Charismatic and...

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