Designer Anand Jon Alexander Guilty 16 Counts Rape & Sex Assault (Photos)

Posted on November 13, 2008

Celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was found guilty on Thursday of raping and sexually assaulting aspiring models as young as 14 years-old. Read more on Anand Jon Alexander’s conviction below.

Anand Jon, 34, is a designer who dressed Paris Hilton and singer Janet Jackson before his arrest this past year. Now Anand Jon Alexander faces possible life imprisonment after a Los Angeles Superior Court jury found him guilty on 16 criminal counts.

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Anand Jon’s crimes involved lewd acts on a child, rape and sexual battery in assaults between 2001 and 2007 against nine would-be models aged between 14 and 21. And Anand Jon was also convicted of possessing child pornography.

Prosecutors said Anand Jon lured girls and women to Los Angeles promising them they could be models and then assaulted them.

“He humiliated, degraded and took what he wanted from them. He was a predator who took advantage of the weak people around him. He has no criminal sexual borders. If he didn’t use force, he laced their drinks,” prosecutor Frances Young told the jury.

Jon, whose full name is Anand Jon Alexander, denied the charges. Alexander’s lawyers said the girls and young women were after revenge and were lying or had “invited what happened,” and that there was little physical evidence.

The designer was acquitted of four charges and the jury could not reach a verdict on three other counts.

Sentencing is scheduled for January 13. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office said Jon was facing a sentence of life in prison, with a 67-year wait before becoming eligible for parole.

Anand Jon has been in custody for around a year due to being investigated on similar charges in New York and Dallas.

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