The celebrity fashion designer has been charged with assaulting four more victims.
Three weeks before we told you that Anand Jon is held for sexual assault, but now he is accused of luring young women with promises of modeling work and then raped or sexually assaulted them. The total count of charges is now at 32 involving sexual assault on 12 women ranging in age from 14 to 32. “It’s a pattern of conduct that is like a serial sex offender.” stated Deputy District A
ttorney Mara McIlvain. The 33 year-old designer was hailed as “Person to Watch in 2007″ by Newsweek magazine. Anand has pled innocent to all charges and his lawyer stated that the sex was consensual and the accusation false. He claimed the women filed the charges because Anand did not make them famous.The charges include forcible rape, sexual battery, sexual battery by restraint, sexual penetration by a foreign object,
sodomy by use of force, forcible oral copulation, attempted forcible 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. Anand is currently free in $1.3 million bond and is not allowed to be alone with any woman under the age of 30.