Fashion designer accused of sex crimes
A federal indictment unsealed today accuses a fashion designer, Anand Jon Alexander, of luring 20 teenage girls and women to L.A., then sexually assaulting them. The charges against Alexander, 33, include 54 felony and five misdemeanor counts, including forcible rape, sexual battery by restraint, lewd acts upon a child, sexual penetration by a foreign object, using a minor for sex acts, forcible and attempted forcible oral copulation, assault with intent to commit a felony, possession or control of child pornography and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He is accused of having committed the between November 2002 and March of this year. His attorney, Anthony Brooklier, said, “We think that there was collusion. We think this is made up whole-cloth, the entire case." Alexander, who is being held in custody without bail, is set to be arraigned Oct. 25.