Designer Anand Jon Alexander has been sentenced to 59 years to life for multiple sexual assaults:

Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander was sentenced Monday to 59 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting aspiring models… He was found not guilty of four felonies, and jurors could not reach a verdict on three counts… ”Mr. Alexander has showed no remorse for his actions”… The most striking image came as a bevy of beautiful women who said Alexander sexually assaulted them filled a jury box. The 13 women cried as Wesley recounted some of the crimes and they held hands as the sentence was read. [NYT]

[Judge] Wesley sentenced him to the maximum sentence for all but two of those counts, saying he showed no remorse for his actions and posed a danger to other young women. Alexander also faces charges in New York and Texas, where he has been indicted. Should he be convicted in other states, those sentences would be served on top of his California sentence [LAT]

The trial was a circus from the beginning:

… juror Alvin Dymally had contacted Alexander’s sister Sanjana. Wesley found both in contempt of court after determining Dymally appeared to want a romantic relationship with her when he spoke to her by phone twice during the trial and offered his help. Dymally also gave her a note in a courthouse cafeteria, asking her to call him… [NYT]

[Jon is] claiming that Elizabeth Roos, the daughter of… one of Jon’s former attorneys… took a job with the D.A.’s office during the trial. [LAWeekly]

Anand Jon’s sister Sanjana admitted her friend tried to smear the accusers:

… a single-page printout entitled “Prostitutes for the Prosecution”… featured more than a dozen nude or semi-nude photos of the young women who’d testified against Jon during his trial. The document identified the women by name and age — many of them were under 18 years old at the time of the photographs, which appeared on social networking sites and other online locales. Who assembled the flyer? Young asked, to which Sanjana quietly replied the name of her friend and house guest, Lauren Boyette. [LAWeekly]

Brother and sister played the race card early and often…

“I am here not only as Anand’s sister but as an Indian who is suffering because we are just guilty by colour.Being an Indian in the US, I know that we won’t get justice…” [Sify]

“In March, 2007,” he says of his Beverly Hills arrest, “I found out what it means to be brown in the USA. I was called a brown sand nigger.” [LAWeekly]

… and Sanjana painted Anand a martyr, like the American journalists detained in North Korea:

“He sketches in whatever time he gets in jail…the self-portrait… he has titled Picasso… “I want to meet Soniaji and Rahulji. When Bill Clinton can go to North Korea to free those two journalists, why can’t we?” [ToI]

“He is being framed. All the charges were levelled against him when his company was to get funding from the Wall Street…” [Hindu]

Jon’s site currently quotes Mohandas Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda while he poses Zoolander-style in a shirt of pure white:

(ht: Filmiholic)