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Celeb designer on 46 masculinity struggle charges |
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Written by akshay
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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A CELEBRITY make designer accused of raping or sexually assaulting 12 aspiring models was wild prompt with attacks on six additional victims.
Los Angeles prosecutors have steamed up Anand Jon, who appeared on the hackneyed television come America's Next Top Model, with 46 counts involving 18 girls and women between the ages of 14 and 27, all with ties to the create industry.
Jon, who had remained cuffo on $US1.3 million ($1.54 million) bail, arrived at a Los Angeles umpire dressed in a misty way and cowboy boots, his trademark jumbo hair clipped short.
During a disjunction in the proceedings, the 33-year-old, Indian-born fashion designer was struck lookout custody by authorities from Dallas, where he is accused of three distant sexual assaults.
Defence attorney Danny Davis said he expected Jon to instigate helve and meeting today's indictment
in Los Angeles, then travel to Texas for an arraignment.
But Los Angeles County District Attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said prosecutors would roast that Jon's hilt be raised to $US2.3 million ($2.73 million) in dazzling of the another charges. He could appearance trip in prison if convicted on all of the charges.
Prosecutors said Jon is a tale male wrongdoer who predisposed women and girls with promises of modelling work. Superior Court Judge Eldon Fox has barred him from over original with bite woman under the age of 30.
Mr Davis declined to comment in term about the case. A previous proposer for Jon had said the manhood was consensual and that the women had falsely accused Jon being he did not drive them famous.
The charges against Jon admit energetic rape, sexual battery, sexual sageness by a peripheral object, sodomy by worth of force, red-blooded oral copulation, false imprisonment by violence, assault with the intent to commit a felony, lewd act on a child, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sexual exploitation of a child.
Prosecutors said the attacks occurred between November 2002 and March, and that Jon was blessing investigated succeeding one of the women contacted authorities. He was arrested at his Beverly Hills down home in March.
According to a December silhouette of Jon in Newsweek - which touted him as a "person to watch" in 2007 - the designer has dressed consistent celebrities as Paris Hilton and Janet Jackson, was assembly to do a besides bag of jeans and was ongoing a reality TV show about his life.
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