10:40AM Defamer Hollywood | Perhaps to our discredit, we had long ago relegated disgraced fashion designer/tacky Web-site proprietor Anand Jon Alexander to the quiet corners of our minds where accused serial rapists like him (59 counts, at last check) await trial. Sharon Waxman, meanwhile — who extensively interviewed AJ and pored over eight volumes of grand jury transcripts for
an article in the new issue of Los Angeles —
acknowledges that the testimony of the aspiring models he allegedly assaulted is both “damning” and “extremely weak in places,” implying that Alexander’s case may not be as open-and-closed as we’d suspected once it goes to trial in September. “Anand Jon does not appear to be a nice guy,” she writes. “But that is not a crime in any state.”
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