Anand Jon Alexander, who’d previously featured on America’s Next Top Model as a fashion designer, was sentenced to between 59 years and life in jail for sexually assaulting seven girls as young as 14. Anand Jon Alexander might get the last laugh, however. Word is that never seeing sunlight, crapping into a metal bucket and being repeatedly stabbed by a paranoid schizophrenic murderer is so Fall 2009. That’ll teach us.
It takes a lot to appear on America’s Next Top Model and come off as even more desperately unpleasant than Tyra Banks but, by jove, it looks like Anand Jon Alexander has gone and done it. To be fair, it took a lot of effort – he had to absolutely destroy the lives of several young women to get there – but that shouldn’t detract from the glory of his prize, which happens to involve spending the rest of his natural life in prison. You may remember that Newsweek magazine once named Anand Jon Alexander as one of the top faces to watch in 2007.
Anand Jon Alexander was first arrested for rape in March 2007, and he was eventually indicted for a staggering 59 counts before finally being convicted in November of 16 counts of rape, sexual assault and other crimes. But before he was sentenced to between 59 years and life in jail yesterday, Anand Jon Alexander realised that – although he’d buttoned down his reputation as a fairly prolific rapist – he hadn’t quite nailed the paranoid conspiracy theorist persona that he’d been slaving over. Luckily, as the Los Angeles Times points out, he got there just in the nick of time: