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LOS ANGELES - A celebrity fashion designer accused of raping or sexually assaulting 12 aspiring models has been charged with attacks on six more victims.
Los Angeles prosecutors have charged Anand Jon, who appeared on the popular television show America's Next Top Model, with 46 counts involving 18 girls and women between the ages of 14 and 27, all with ties to the fashion industry.
Prosecutors say Jon is a serial sex offender who lured women and girls with promises of modelling work.
According to a December profile of Jon in Newsweek - which touted him as a "person to watch" in 2007 - the designer has dressed such celebrities as Paris Hilton and Janet Jackson, was planning to launch a new line of jeans and was developing a reality TV show about his life.
- REUTERS
