Anand Jon, Fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander will be sentenced in a Los Angeles court today on charges of sexually assaulting several young models.

The 35-year-old designer, once a friend of celebrities including Paris Hilton and Michelle Rodriguez and designer to A-List clients like Mary J Blige and Janet Jackson, was convicted in November of 14 counts of forcible rape after being arrested in 2007.

The prosecution says Alexander (who goes by Anand Jon) flaunted his designer status to lure the aspiring models to his place in Beverly Hills, Calif.. often surfing the internet for potential victims. While he promised a fancy photo shoot awaited the girls at his pad, he instead attacked them.

At today’s court sentencing, the models are set to speak, while The Huffington Post reports Jon faces 3 terms of 53 years and six months to life in prison.

On the flip side, the defense claims the women are seeking revenge against the India-born designer after they didn’t land modeling gigs, while Alexander’s sister, Sanjana, has set up a support site at AnandJon.com and is calling it all a case of racial profiling.

“Being an Indian in the US, I know that we won’t get justice,” she says on the site. She has also plead to the Indian government for help and threatened to go on a hunger strike.

In an odd twist of events, Sanjana herself will have a hearing in September due to accepting notes and calls from one of the jurors on the case, who was eventually kicked off the trial.

Alexander has also been indicted in New York on charges stemming from nine women.

Janet Jackson 2009 American music awards, Michael Jackson won four posthumous awards, Taylor Swift took home top honors and Adam Lambert brought some controversy to Sunday night’s American Music Awards in Los Angeles.

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American singer Janet Jackson is said to be planning a tribute to her late brother Michael at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on September 13.

Janet, 43, who collaborated with her brother on 1995 track Scream, has promised to be the highlight of the show in New York with a set dedicated to the tragic King of Pop.

She is reportedly in rehearsals with 20 backing dancers, as well as famed choreographers Frank Gatson Jr. and Travis Payne, who worked with the Thriller hitmaker.

“There won’t be a dry eye in the house,” Contactmusic quoted one of the dancers involved in the show, Kriyss Grant, as having told TMZ.com.

Other performer set to take the stage at Manhattan’s famed Radio City Music Hall include Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Green Day and Pink.