Michael Stern’s JDS Development Group replaced Official, the brokerage co-founded by Tal and Oren Alexander brothers, as the sales and marketing firm for 888 Brickell, the Dolce & Gabbana-branded condo project in Miami.
One Sotheby’s International Realty is taking over sales of the planned condo-hotel tower at 888 Brickell Avenue, sources said. The Real Deal reported in June that JDS planned to replace Official after lawsuits alleging Oren and his brother Alon raped and sexually assaulted women were widely reported by TRD and other publications.
Later, Tal Alexander was accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in an alleged group attack orchestrated by Oren. The brothers, who deny the claims, have since stepped down from Official, a boutique brokerage backed by the white-label firm Side.
Miami-based One Sotheby’s is led by owners Mayi and Daniel de la Vega.
The 1,049-foot supertall will mark the first Dolce & Gabbana-branded residential building. It will include 250 rooms and suites. Owners will be able to put their units into the hotel’s rental program or live in them. Units will have up to three bedrooms.
The project will also have six food and beverage outlets, including a restaurant on the ground floor; two bars in the lobby and a pool club restaurant and bar. Studio Sofield is designing the building and Italian design firm M2Atelier is designing the interiors.
Official co-founder Nicole Oge said in a statement the firm wishes the new sales team “nothing but success.”
Official was also leading sales for Michael Shvo and Deutsche Finance’s Rosewood-branded Raleigh condominium project in Miami Beach. Shvo cut ties with Official in late June. Anna Sherrill, who had joined Official in May to lead sales of the Raleigh, returned to One Sotheby’s and her team is now in charge of selling the project.
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Official’s other co-founders, Richard Jordan and Andrew Wachtfogel, are leading the firm with Oge. The brokerage held onto the sales contract for Jonathan Landau’s Indian Creek Residences & Yacht Club, a planned eight-story, nine-unt building in Bay Harbor Islands.
The FBI is investigating the rape and assault allegations by the Alexander brothers, the Wall Street Journal reported. An FBI child exploitation and sex trafficking task force is reportedly speaking with women who allege they were assaulted by the brothers or witnessed the alleged attacks.