He moved to New York and joined Parsons The New School for Design making the transition from fine art to fashion.
[5] Upon graduating from Parsons, where the Associate Dean was Tim Gunn, Jon launched his debut collection "Amazone" in 1999.
[6] As Jon's brand gained popularity with his Kama Sutra Indo chic fusions, he was sponsored by Giorgio Armani.
[9] In 2006 Jon founded a denim design company Jeanisis Fashion Inc., and the same year he received capitalization from the Joseph Stevens & Co. Inc. investment firm.
[15] The prosecutors accused Jon of luring women and girls to his apartment under the pretext of securing modeling jobs.
[13] On November 13, 2008, he was convicted on one count of rape of an adult woman and multiple other charges including unlawful conduct and contributing to delinquency of minors.
12 had discussed the case with his tenant and told her he felt the girls on the stand all seemed to have the same or similar stories, and that he was under the impression they had all collaborated.
Defense attorneys then presented a tape with their conversation, along with phone records, proving that the juror had falsely testified.
[45] Anand Jon's path to freedom was catalyzed alongside the first of a kind California Racial Justice Act (applicable stating 2024) when the International Justice Alliance delegates met with then Assembly Member Dr. Shirley Weber who has then become the California Secretary of State.
[46] The record shows how the L.A. prosecutor "demonized Anand Jon's Indian-Jewish culture, meditating cross legged, Kamasutra and foreign (Hebrew) symbols" and further inflamed the jury by portraying Anand Jon as an outsider, who was "above the laws of the United States" "targeted white women".
The International Justice Alliance delegation included influential activists, filmmakers, students and exonerees such as Amy Ralston Povah,[47] founder of the CAN-DO Foundation who noted "correcting an injustice".
"[49] The disturbing racism in the case was referred to in the Racial Justice Act, assembly member Ash Kalra.
"In our research, we found the misconduct of the Beverly Hills police and prosecutor in People v Anand Jon Alexander utterly shocking" said former Assembly member Patty Lopez who passed the AB1909 law (2018) holding prosecutors criminally liable for withholding favorable evidence.
[50] The Parsons School of Design (New York City) BA graduate Anand Jon was among 30 selected for the first of a kind Cal State HUX masters degree for the incarcerated starting fall 2023.
[51] Jon was transferred to San Quentin Prison where a $380 million transformation into a Norwegian model rehabilitation center is underway under Governor Newsom's vision to reduce crime, racism and recidivism.
[20] Jon has been involved in charity projects such as Universe Aids awareness tour to India with his sister Sanjana.