Fashion & Style
OF all the things that Anand Jon wanted, what he seemed to crave most was attention: the hot glare of the catwalk. The shout-outs of paparazzi. The stares of the idle rich as he poured out of a limousine in the Hamptons with girls, lots and lots of girls, always young and beautiful and easily replaced.
What he gained, in the end, was attention, but not the kind he craved.
The dark-eyed, 33-year-old fashion designer has been released on $1.3 million bail after having been charged last month by the district attorney’s office in Los Angeles County with 32 counts of rape, sexual battery, lewd acts on a child and other ugly crimes, against a dozen women — all models — aged 14 to 23.
“It’s the pattern of a sexual predator,” said Jane Robison, the spokeswoman for the district attorney. “It’s a serious, serious case.”
Ronald Richards, Mr. Jon’s defense lawyer, said this is a case of thwarted expectations: the young women had sought to trade sex for a career in fashion. “You can’t fault a man if women throw themse
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