Overview
- Australian authorities said Kate Whiteman, 45, was found dead near Sydney late last year, according to the New South Wales coroner.
- A coronial investigation has been opened because officials have not determined whether the death resulted from natural causes.
- Whiteman filed a civil suit in March 2024 alleging Oren and Alon Alexander assaulted her after meeting them at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012 and taking her to a Hamptons estate.
- Federal prosecutors arrested Oren, Alon and Tal Alexander in December 2024 on an 11-count sex-trafficking conspiracy, and they remain jailed in Brooklyn with trial set for Jan. 26 in Manhattan.
- A superseding indictment filed this week added a sexual-abuse-by-physical-incapacitation charge tied to an alleged January 2012 cruise ship incident, and Oren and Alon pleaded not guilty.