Broker bros deal in sleaze
Last month, I wrote about the three real estate broker brothers Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander. Partners. Supersuccessful. Sell millions. Begun with Douglas Elliman, the smooth lookers then started their own hustle.
Jet-setters. The lifestyles sometimes matched the penthouses they peddled. It’s live high. Think big. Work hard. And grab your sex whether she wants it or not.
Not-nice news stories ooze out about them and they are now entangled with lawyers and lawsuits. Their Instagram accounts’ have suddenly gone private or been deactivated.
One alleged victim pledged that every penny of any verdict will go to sexually assaulted victims. Their not-nice habits were just immortalized in the New York Times and New York Magazine.
It’s multiple females suing. For rape plus what constitutes bad behavior. A subpoena’s even gone to the husband of one of the victims.
Could be — someone who knows says — that what appears now is an added situation. Harassment. That a strange man showed at the home of one of the alleged victims and — at night — banged on their door. Families being harassed. Others subpoenaed.
Lawyers request this harassment cease. Apparently the effort is to intimidate family members of the victims. There are several lawsuits. Accusations are that sex-wise these appear to be heavy-duty players. One of the alleged rape cases goes back 20 years. All three deny the whole thing.
In a pol vault
Off-B’way’s “Ghost of John McCain,” set for Soho Playhouse, needs bodies to play Hillary, Biden, Lindsey Graham.
So if you got nothing else to do — go play Hillary. The project is undergoing script changes to include a Kamala character now immortalized by Zonya Love who also plays Eva Perón.
Aaron Michael Ray has the role of something called Donald Trump’s Brain.
Let’s nobody discuss the show’s creator. Funding is probably by the Sanitation Dept.
Opening night’s Sept. 3.
Bits & pieces
Robert Tucker just sworn in as NYC’s 35th Fire Commissioner is grandson to late tenor Richard Tucker . . . Newly named Meryl Streep Center for Performing Artists will have the Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson Screening Room, Nicole Kidman Green Room and DiCaprio’s On-Camera Studio. Run by SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Courtney B. Vance is president . . . PATSY’S super marvelous great West 56th Italian restaurant celebrating its 80th year with two meals for $80.
H’wood takes trip on shrooms
Americans — living such high lives these days — comes now the acme of their elixir. A movie called “My Old Ass.” Margot Robbie, producer. Something about being on a mushroom trip and some 39-year-old somebody meets her 18-year-old self. Or something.
You’re told: “It’s about being more present and grateful. The younger self learns from the older self.” Yeah, OK, fine, but who of us personally knows anyone schlepping around with nothing to do but gather mushrooms?
This old “ass” — not mine, the movie’s — drags into theaters Sept. 13.
So this producer, offering a formerly famous movie star the role of a prostitute who lies, cheats and runs from bum to bum, then asked, “How do you feel about the role?” She said, “Please — it’s the first decent part I’ve been offered in years.”
Only in New York, kids, Only in New York.