Frances Young

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Anand Jon Verdicts: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty . . .

Victors: Deputy D.A.s Mara McIlvain (l.) and Frances Young (c.) At 11:45 a.m. today Judge David Wesley’s clerk began reading the jury verdicts Wesley had just unsealed, perused and approved. The tension in the packed courtroom had been oppressive since Department 102’s doors opened. Prosecuto ... More >>

Some Girls: Anand Jon Trial Goes to Jury

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

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 >>

The Strange and Disturbing Trial of Anand Jon

What we talk about when we talk about rape

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 >>

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?

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 >>