New South Wales Police declined to comment and referred the investigation to the coroner’s office.
Whiteman, 45, filed a civil lawsuit in March 2024 accusing the Alexander brothers of sexually assaulting her more than a decade earlier.
In court documents, she said she met the brothers at a Manhattan nightclub in 2012 and was forced into an SUV as she left. She claimed they drove her to a Hamptons estate where she was attacked.
A day after Whiteman’s lawsuit was filed, a second woman, Rebecca Mandel, filed similar claims against the brothers in a separate civil suit. Mandel alleged that she was drugged and sexually assaulted at a party in Manhattan in 2010.
The Alexanders have denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
In November, a federal judge rejected an attempt to dismiss the sex trafficking charge, paving the way for the brothers’ trial in January.
New charges against brothers
The Alexander brothers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a new charge added to a sweeping federal indictment just before their sex trafficking trial was set to begin.
Oren and Alon Alexander were charged with sexual abuse by physical disability under a superseding indictment filed Monday in federal court, NBC News reported.
Prosecutors allege the twins engaged in sex acts with a woman in January 2012 while she was unable to refuse to board a Bahamian-flagged cruise ship departing from and returning to the United States.
The new indictment was added to an 11-count indictment accusing Oren and Alon and their brother Tal Alexander of conspiring for more than a decade to drug, sexually assault and rape dozens of women in Miami, New York, the Hamptons and other luxury locations.
All three brothers remain in custody in New York City ahead of the trial’s scheduled start date of January 26.
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