ANAND JON ALEXANDER is a great, human being with high values and compassion. Highly talented and successful, created a pivotal position in the international fashion industry, but conned by his competitors.

Anand’s Fame

AWARDS, HONORS, & CREDENTIALS

• Apart from being the winner of the prestigious Fashion week of America’s International New Star” Designer Award in the year 2002-’03, Anand has also won several acclaimed awards, honors and credentials such as
• Asia Society Guest of Honor 2004, Asia on my mind.
• Winner of Peoples Choice Award “Best New Designer”2002, Dans Papers
• Winner of SASA 2004 Award for breakthrough in Arts and Business.
• Indian-American Kerala Cultural & Civic Center Outstanding accomplishment Award 2002
• Selected Top 12 new fashion brands of the future in the world by In Style Europe 2001-2002.
• Parsons School of Design official Jury starting 2004.
• Helping Hands Charity with M Night Shyamalan, Anand Jon & Ms Universe’03 Amelia Vega
• Selected by A Magazine as among the Top 21 Asians to watch out for in the 21st century
• Selected as one of the 25 “Faces of the Future” leaders of the new millennium by India Today.
• Selected for the prestigious NYC 2000 by Mayor Guiliani among the top 70 designers in the world
• Picked as one of the Top looks of the Millennium /NYC 2000 – Oprah Winfrey show “Oprah”
• Official International Spokesman for CARE International children’s charity
• Judge for Miss India 2002
• Judge for FEMME 2003 with FUBU & E!’s Leon Hall
• The Shakespeare Theater (Hamptons, the Peter Beard mansion) Costumes by Anand Jon ’01
• Special Host of Iceland Fashion Week (with Patricia Fields of Sex & the City/ HBO), MTV Asia, MTV.
• Selected to be the official host (co hosted by Ms Universe 2003 and Michelle Rodriguez) of the US ARMY/USO July 4th 2003 celebrations at Fort Dix, NJ.
• The Fashion Group Int’l, Member NYC 2003 selected / sponsored by Margaret Hayes, President of FGI.
• Profiled designer in Tyra Banks, America’s Next Top Model, 2003.
• Selected to co-host the first ever MTV Asia Fashion awards 2003.
• Picked on ABC & A &E “American Royalty” series as the “It Designer” who launches “It Girls” featuring Amanda &Lydia Hearst, Paris & Nicky Hilton, Ivanka Trump. Lauren Bush(other “It Makers” included Richard Johnson / Page Six, Patrick Mc Mullan and Michael Musto of Village Voice)
• Runway features debuts of Amanda Hearst, Michelle Rodriguez, Mya, Izabella Miko, Ananda Lewis, Princess Olivia of Spain, Max Tucci the Count of Florence and featured Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Lydia Hearst.
• Selected as one of the “Sexiest South Asians in America” Bibi 2004
• Selected by Newsweek as one of the most successful South Asians in the world 2004.
• Selected in the NR Eyes 50 most Influential Indians in the world (Book and TV series) 2004

With such a long list of credentials and a rising career, everything was going his way until a fateful day in 2007 when he was convicted for count of forcible rape, an attempted kiss, touching on the thigh (sexual battery) by the Los Angeles court even though the evidences were in his favor. Anand passed the lie detector test and a negative rape kit. This was a real TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE. Presently Anand Jon is kept at the Riker’s Island jail in New York waiting for his fresh trial, fighting against the odds of injustice meted to him.

 
How it started, the conviction and at present

Anand Jon, an acclaimed International Fashion designer of Indian origin had everything going for him in the right direction. Few days before he signed in the prestigious project with Wall Street which funded his company, Anand was arrested in March 2007 in Beverley Hills accused for forcible rape of one Jessy B. The sheer proof of Anand passing the lie detector test and the rape kit being negative were evidences enough to prove his innocence. But the prosecution added several other complaining witnesses to the existing case and Anand was alleged with various degrees of sexual abuse.

It is vital to note here that Anand did not flee the country when he was out on bail after the initial charges. He wanted to fight it out and prove his innocence. An incident to prove the level of conspiracy and bias against the designer was when he was falsely charged to be an illegal immigrant in the United States. He was detained again and sent to the INS jail even though he was legal. An INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) judge eventually throughout the charge stating that he was legal and should have never been in INS.

The prosecution moved the case from the Beverly Hills court and judge Elden Fox to the Downtown Los Angeles court where Anand was indicted on over fifty nine counts. His defense team asserts that these models have made up these charges and are nothing less than “wannabes” craving for publicity, fame and potentially fortune. A group of around 23 complaining witnesses were produced by the prosecution. The girls joined the bandwagon after the initial first complaint so eager with statements of alleging sexual abuse which occurred in a time period of 2001 to 2007.

If it were true, then why did the girls take so long to speak up? Not even one of the 23 so called victims had any complaints until 2007. Why were no 911 calls made by any of the complaining witnesses when that is what any assaulted person would attempt to do? All these not only prove that these are conniving charges but also gets one suspicious about the motive behind bringing down a well know celebrity.

Signs of a tainted verdict and many allegations upon jurors were evident as early as in Nov 2008. Though there was a clear scenario to declare the case as a mistrial, the trial judge repeatedly ordered for the deliberations to continue. Anand was convicted on August 31 2009 with a life sentence of over 59 years. The act came in as a shock of injustice to many when it was officially declared that there were juror misconduct and the prosecution was caught red- handed for intercepting a juror in July 2009. Appeals were made on prosecutorial misconduct where in the lead detective accepted of acts such as evidences being tampered and even destroyed which were in favor of the defense.

By the end of Jan 2010, Anand was moved to New York upon similar charges made mostly by the same complaining witnesses. A dozen plus charges were dropped by the NY prosecution, though no explanations were made as to why they dropped in it now and not in LA. Later Anand Jon was successful in beating 48 out of the 49 counts and walked out with a minor plea from New York .

There were no charges made against these women who had gotten away with perjury, defamation and cyber crime. Such is the state of injustice meted to Anand Jon. It is a clear case of violation of Human Rights.

After struggling for almost 6 years, Anand Jon Alexander was moved  into California Correctional Institution, Tehachapi in May 2013. A new Writ of Habeas Corpus has been filed in California on the 18th of December 2013.The court had instructed the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office to respond to every points that were raised in the Writ (which is yet to be responded).

After 7 and half long years Anand Jon is very confident and anxiously waiting for Justice to prevail and for his legal freedom, so that he can be back home with his mother and sister very soon, as Truth and God are with him.

Let us join hands in voicing our views against this injustice and let TRUTH behold!