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Anand Jon

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    Sanjana Alexander's Contempt Fine: $1,000 Plus 120 Hours Service

    This morning Sanjana Alexander was scheduled to receive punishment from Judge David Wesley as part of the contempt of court citations he'd previously issued to her and Alvin Dymally. She had to wait, however, while Wesley conducted a pretrial hearing involving the two alleged animal right militants ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Anand Jon Trial Juror Punished

    Alvin Dymally, the juror whose rogue conduct both before and after the Anand Jon trial seemingly threatened to upend Jon's November, 2008 conviction, has received his contempt of court punishment. L.A. Superior Court Judge David Wesley, who had presided over the fashion designer's sexual assault tri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    Anand Jon Trial: A Postscript

    Hina/WikipediaAnand Jon: The Long Goodbye?​In the end, nothing came as a surprise. Yesterday, well past the court's normal 4 p.m. closing time and following an all-day hearing, Judge David Wesley tersely rejected fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander's motion for a new trial. Wesley then sentenced ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Anand Jon Makes Last Stand

    "Excuse me, can you please move down and make room?" the young woman asked her neighbors in the packed courtroom. "We have a very famous lawyer here." By that she meant Gloria Allred, who had just arrived at 9 a.m., the time scheduled for Superior Court Judge David Wesley to either sentence celebrit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Anand Jon Hearing Continues

    Judge David Wesley recessed Anand Jon's new-trial hearing for lunch a little while ago. Jon used almost all of the morning session to passionately attack rogue juror Alvin Dymally, who had reached out to Jon's sister, Sanjana, in an apparent attempt to woo her or to offer his assistance in influenc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Anand Jon Sentence: 59 Years to Life

    After hearing fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander argue before his court for an entire day for a new trial, Judge David Wesley declared there were no new grounds for granting such a motion. Then, following emotional victim statements delivered by three of the women the designer was convicted last N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    High City Official Andrew Adelman in Rape Investigation

    The LAPD search warrant didn't mince words. It stated that shortly after a July 10 pub crawl involving Andrew Adelman​half a dozen friends and acquaintances had begun near downtown's Music Center, a woman in the group blacked out and hours later "woke up naked in bed." That wouldn't be the end of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2009

    Anand Jon Tries to Fire Lawyers; Sister Plans Protest

    Update: Judge David Wesley has granted a defense motion for a Monday hearing to permit Anand Jon to dismiss his attorneys and represent himself. Wesley indicated that he will allow Jon's request to act as his own attorney. See motion here: 582106569 (2).pdfAnand Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Anand Jon Judge: No New Trial

    After hearing both sides forcefully argue their cases for or against granting fashion designer Anand Jon a new trial this morning, Superior Court Judge David Wesley delivered his decision at 12:15 p.m.: The motion for a new trial is denied. Further, he has just cited Sanjana Jon Alexander and juror ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    Tense Moments in Today's Anand Jon Courtroom

    For 100 intense minutes this morning the defense and prosecutors involved in the Anand Jon trial argued to persuade Judge David Wesley on the motion to set aside Jon's first trial and order a new one. The defense motion has kept the fashion designer, who was convicted of 16 sex-related charges last ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    D.A.'s Office: New Anand Jon Trial a 'Grave Mistake'

    L.A. Daily has obtained a copy of the prosecution motion to be filed Monday, July 6, arguing against the granting of a new trial for fashion designer Anand Jon. The motion dismisses defense attorneys' claims that the spurned affections of one juror by Jon's sister, Sanjana, could have resulted in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2009

    Anand Jon: The Trial After the Trial

    It's going to be July 6 now before the Anand Jon case lurches into its next hearing. I say Anand Jon"case" because the actual trial ended November 13, with the celebrity fashion designer's conviction on 15 counts of sexual assault and on one rape charge. By now any reader who's even accidentally stu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    New Trial Hearing for Anand Jon Under Way

    Today was the day convicted fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander's defense presented to Judge David Wesley its case for a new trial. There is much at stake: The original proceedings resulted in Anand Jon, as the designer is known professionally, being convicted of 15 sexual assault charges and one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Endgame: Anand Jon's Lawyers Fight for New Trial

    One never knows what to expect when entering the madhouse that is the Anand Jon courtroom - known more formally in Superior Court directories as Department 102. Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer, was convicted of 15 counts of sexual assault and one rape charge last November. He was to be senten ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Anand Jon's Night Gallery

    [Update: A scheduled hearing to determine whether Anand Jon's 2008 conviction should be set aside in favor of a new trial was postponed to May 29, in order to allow defense attorneys more time to contact witnesses. Also, several images from Jon's support Web site, including those shown here, have be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Judge Denies Anand Jon Recusal Bid, Sets New Trial Hearing

    This morning Judge David Wesley heard arguments from Anand Jon defense lawyer Leonard Levine as to why the entire District Attorney's office should be recused from prosecuting a new trial that the fashion designer's attorneys are seeking -- as well as from investigating why a juror in Jon's trial ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Anand Jon's Post-Verdict Twilight Zone

    The court afterlife of the Anand Jon trial -- a post-verdict twilight filled with sentencing hearings and new trial motions -- has now stretched out longer than the trial itself. That proceeding ran a mere two months before the Beverly Hills fashion designer was convicted of one count of rape and 15 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Anand Jon Hearing Crawls Along

    Today's hearing into possible prosecutorial misconduct that occured in the months following Anand Jon's conviction on multiple counts of sexual assault crawled along this morning. Defense lawyer Ronald Richards didn't so much grill as sauté D.A. investigators Chandera Parker and Ronald Valdivia abo ... More >>

  • Columns

    April 9, 2009

    Star-crossed at Starbucks: Strange Twist at Anand Jon Sentencing

    Today's hearing into possible prosecutorial misconduct that occured in the months following Anand Jon's conviction on multiple counts of sexual assault crawled along this morning. Defense lawyer Ronald Richards didn't so much grill as sauté D.A. investigators Chandera Parker and Ronald Valdivia abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Now: Anand Jon Sentencing Hearing

    Today is the morning fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander (known professionally as Anand Jon) is to be sentenced for the multiple sexual assault charges for which he was convicted last November. All the lawyers have arrived now in Dept. 102. Defense attorneys Lenny Levine and Donald Marks have just ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Anand Jon Sentencing Hearing Starts

    Criminal Courts Building, Department 102, 9:16 a.m.Judge David Wesley has taken the bench. Everyone seems to be here except Anand Jon. Jon's sister, Sanjana, is wearing  a long, scarf-like wrap that is pale-green -- will her brother be wearing a green tie? During the trial his ties matched her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    Juror Furor: Anand Jon Case Takes Troubling Twist

    Call it the extension of March Madness by other means. Those of us reporting on the post-trial hearings of the Anand Jon case have known for more than a month that today would be the date of a hearing regarding explosive charges that the District Attorney's office had thwarted a January 7 meeting be ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 5, 2009

    Full Court Press: Dominick Dunne's Cameo at Phil Spector Retrial; Anand Jon's Explosive Evidence of Juror Shenanigans

    Call it the extension of March Madness by other means. Those of us reporting on the post-trial hearings of the Anand Jon case have known for more than a month that today would be the date of a hearing regarding explosive charges that the District Attorney's office had thwarted a January 7 meeting be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Anand Jon Trial Shock: Rogue Juror Throws Verdict Monkey Wrench

    Today lawyers for fashion designer Anand Jon sought to overturn his sexual assault verdicts and win a new trial, citing a bizarre incident that occurred during the trial that ended in his conviction last November. Although the defense attorneys' motions are under seal, they refer to an event in whic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    New Questions Raised About Anand Jon Trial

    For more than a month now there's been courthouse buzz about a development brewing in the completed trial of fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, who was convicted last November of 15 counts of sexual abuse and one count of rape. The word was that lawyers for Anand Jon, as he is known professionall ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Anand Jon Sentencing Postponed

    Department 102 began filling with D.A. and media types before 9 a.m. today, in anticipation of Judge David Wesley handing down sentence to fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander. Anand Jon, as he is known professionally, was convicted in November of 16 counts of sexual assault against seven young and ... More >>

  • News

    January 1, 2009

    On Trial: Pellicano, Scat-Porn King Ira Isaacs, Designer Anand Jon

    Verdicts are never the last word in court

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2008

    Sex, Lie Detectors and Videotape: Anand Jon Takes Polygraph Test AFTER Conviction -- Supporters Ask Rape Victim to Do Same

    As we reported here two weeks ago, L.A. fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, who was convicted November 13 of 16 charges of sexual assault upon young women and girls, including one count of rape, passed a polygraph test during a session in which he was asked two questions. Those queries, which wer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2008

    Anand Jon's Lie Detector Test

    Last month bicoastal fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was convicted by an L.A. jury of most of his 23 sexual assault charges stemming from his conduct with seven young women and underage girls between 2001 and 2007. (Charges involving two additional accusers were thrown out. An earlier version o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Bulletin: Anand Jon Verdicts to Be Read 11:30 A.M.

    A very confusing morning. It began with the anticipation that partial verdicts in the case of fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander would be read at 3 p.m. Then the reading was called off and now, moments ago, it was announced that verdicts on all counts will be read by Judge David Wesley at 11:30 a. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    Anand Jon: Guilty 16 Times

    Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander faces life in prison today following his conviction on 16 charges of sexual assault and lewd conduct with minors. He was acquitted on four charges, while the jury deadlocked on three other counts. "Mr. Alexander is a 34-year-old pedophile masquerading as a fashi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Anand Jon Trial Alert: Partial Verdicts Reached

    At 2:40 p.m. this afternoon the district attorney’s office issued the following statement: “The jury has announced that they have reached partial verdicts in the Anand Jon Alexander case. Judge Wesley told jurors to keep deliberating and that he will read the verdicts at 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2008

    Anand Jon Jury Shock

    By now the Anand Jon trial’s jurors know the quickest way to Department 102 on the ninth floor is to take the express elevators up from the lobby to the 12th floor and then catch a car down to the ninth. Today the foreman of the fashion designer’s jury did just that, along with another juror and ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Some Girls: Anand Jon Trial Goes to Jury

    Criminal trial against the fashion designer comes to a close, two months after it began

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Anand Jon Prosecution: Up in Smoke?

    Anand Jon Prosecution: Up in Smoke? Today jurors are on their third day of deliberations of charges that fashion designer Anand Jon committed acts of rape and sexual battery against teenaged girls and young women. The original complaint comprised 59 counts, involving 20 alleged victims. Over time t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2008

    Some Girls: Anand Jon Trial Goes to Jury

    UPDATE: The following was an abbreviated preview of a longer piece that would appear online Nov. 6, under the same headline. “I want more. I want harder evidence. I want that tampon.” So said deputy district attorney Frances Young during her closing rebuttal that finally brought the criminal tr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2008

    Seduction or Rape?

    Day 2 of Anand Jon Trial's Closing Arguments Prosecutor Mara McIlvain delivered the D.A.’s closing argument Wednesday, followed by the first of three Anand Jon lawyers with the defense’s side, presented by Donald Marks. Marks had only begun his comments when court adjourned yesterday, and picke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2008

    Anand Jon's Defense Rests

    Well, no one at Google got arrested Tuesday -- although 1,500 folks at Yahoo were laid off. Judge David Wesley was ready to issue an arrest warrant for Google’s custodian of records, since the search-engine giant hadn’t responded to defense requests to cough up email records related to Amanda C, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2008

    Anand Jon Trial: Searching Google for an Arrest

    Anand Jon defense attorney Eric Chase vented his frustration in court this morning over lack of cooperation from Google. Since October 10, he claimed, he’d been asking the Santa Monica office of the search-engine giant to authenticate emails sent to Jon by Amanda C, who has accused his client of s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Anand Jon’s Beverly Hills Cop Witness

    Defense lawyers for L.A. fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander, who is accused by nine young women of committing sexual assaults against them, continued their case this morning by calling Beverly Hills cop Nicole Cranham to the stand. The attorneys sought to show that three of Jon’s accusers (Britn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Anand Jon's Defense Begins - Sort Of

    The prosecution rested its case in chief today against fashion designer Anand Jon, who is charged with multiple sexual assaults against nine girls and young women between 2001 and 2007. The end came not with a bang but with the whimper of DNA testimony, provided by Sheriff’s Department senior crim ... More >>

  • News

    October 9, 2008

    The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jon

    What we talk about when we talk about rape

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2008

    Anus Horribilis: Vodka tumblers & women in caves

    Britny O is 18 and a dead ringer for Bettie Page, even if it looks as though she outgrew the hound’s-tooth jacket and striped slacks ensemble she wore to court today about 10 years ago. Hers was a harrowing story of how, as a 17-year-old during January and February of 2007, she’d been contacted ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    Models Begin Testifying in Rape Trial

    The first of nine alleged sexual assault victims began testifying against fashion designer Anand Jon Thursday. “Jessie B” told deputy D.A. Mara McIlvain she was an 18-year-old aspiring model from Lake Stevens, Washington, when, she was contacted on her MySpace page by Jon.

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2008

    Witness Intimidation?

    The sexual assault trial of fashion designer Anand Jon turned uglier today amid disclosures that the sister of prosecution background witness “Kristin S” was contacted over the weekend in North Carolina by an anonymous caller who told the sister that Kristin was missing, and who then asked the w ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Barely Illegal: At Anand Jon rape trial, young models testify and defense argues over age of consent

    Little women: Is 14 really the new 18?

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Goddesses & Doormats: Anand Jon’s Rape Trial Begins

    “I am my own god and I get whatever I want,” fashion designer Anand Jon is quoted in court documents as telling one of his alleged rape victims. Another girl was a 16-year-old virgin and home-schooled Mormon who, in 2003, was taking her first tentative step into secular society. She claims Jon, ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2008

    Fashion Victim: Anand Jon

    Will celebrity designer be in stripes for the rest of his life?

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Anand Jon Rape Trial Nears

    A semen-stained comforter, a tampon and a camera. These were some of the items listed on a Beverly Hills P.D. search warrant when officers raided fashion designer Anand Jon's pad in March, 2007. Later that year Jon was charged with a list of offenses more often associated with spring break at Lake H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2008

    The Best True Crime Stories of 2007

    They are the modern versions of monster stories. True Crime writers seek out such tales every day, finding them in two sentence-long police blotter blurbs, law enforcement sources lamenting the one that got away, or victims looking for justice. They pile on hours of research and interviews, buil ... More >>

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