Celeb fashion designer Anand Jon charged with more counts

Celeb fashion designer Anand Jon (right in photo)

Celeb fashion designer Anand Jon will be charged with 13 more counts of sexual misconduct today in Los Angeles County Superior Court, including three new counts of rape -- raising the total number of charges against him to 46.

TMZ has learned that six new accusers have joined the case, bringing the total number of potential victims to 18 -- all ranging between the ages of 14 and 27. Among the horrific new charges, Jon is accused of sexual penetration by a foreign object, assault with intent to commit a felony, forcible rape and forcible oral copulation.

Jon, who was featured on MTV and often hung out with stars like Paula Abdul, Paris Hilton and Michelle Rodriguez, arrived to court this morning wearing a black suit and yellow tie, his hair trimmed and combed to the side. Witnesses inside the courtroom say he "has his game face on." Jon is currently out on $1.365 million bail, but we're told that prosecutors will request that bail be raised to $2.3 million.

Jon was originally arrested and jailed in March, after three potential victims came forward to police. Since then, the accusations and number of victims have rapidly grown.

Anand's attorney, Ronald Richards, has intimated in the past that Jon is being accused by disgruntled former models.

Actor Mulroney Files for Divorce

Mulroney Files for Divorce From Keener


LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dermot Mulroney has filed for divorce, seeking to end his nearly 17-year marriage to Catherine Keener.

The 43-year-old actor cited irreconcilable differences and asked for joint custody of their 7-year-old son, Clyde, according to documents filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The couple, who appeared in the 2001 film "Lovely & Amazing," were married in November 1990 and separated in May 2005, the documents said. An after-hours e-mail to Keener's publicist wasn't immediately returned.

Mulroney's screen credits include "My Best Friend's Wedding," "The Wedding Date," and "Georgia Rule."

Keener, who has two Oscar nominations for supporting roles in "Capote" and "Being John Malkovich," has also appeared in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "The Ballad of Jack and Rose."

Sopranos movie may not happen

Sopranos Creator: Movie No Sure Thing

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- "Sopranos" fans who thought the series' open-ended conclusion was a setup for a movie may be in for disappointment: creator David Chase says it isn't so.

Chase went to France before the airing of the much-debated finale of the HBO series because he wanted to avoid what he called "all the Monday morning quarterbacking." But like a true New Jersey loyalist, he granted one interview to The Star-Ledger of Newark, which posted his comment early Tuesday on its Web site.

"I don't think about (a movie) much," he told the paper. "I never say never. An idea could pop into my head where I would go, `Wow, that would make a great movie,' but I doubt it.

"I'm not being coy," he added. "If something appeared that really made a good `Sopranos' movie and you could invest in it and everybody else wanted to do it, I would do it. But I think we've kind of said it and done it."

Chase said he would leave it to fans to interpret the show's last scene for themselves. It featured the members of the Soprano family arriving for dinner as Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" plays. Others in the restaurant include a man in a Member's Only jacket who goes to the bathroom, which some fans have interpreted as a nod to the scene in "The Godfather" in which Michael Corleone retrieves a gun from the bathroom before a shooting.

As the music and tension build, the screen suddenly goes silent and dark.

"I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting, or adding to what is there," said Chase, 61, who grew up in North Caldwell.

"People get the impression that you're trying to (mess) with them, and it's not true. You're trying to entertain them," he said. "Anybody who wants to watch it, it's all there."

Another problem with a movie is that so many characters died in the last season. Chase said he has considered "going back to a day in 2006 that you didn't see, but then (Tony's children) would be older than they were then and you would know that Tony doesn't get killed. It's got problems."

Chase also elaborated on how he decided to make the Journey classic the last music played on the series.

"It didn't take much time at all to pick it, but there was a lot of conversation after the fact. I did something I'd never done before: In the location van, with the crew, I was saying, `What do you think?' When I said, `Don't Stop Believin',' people went, `What? Oh my God!'

"I said, `I know, I know, just give a listen,' and little by little, people started coming around."

`Ugly Betty' Star Weds in Puerto Rico

`Ugly Betty' Star (left in photo)Weds in Puerto Rico !





SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Ana Ortiz, who plays the older sister of the title character in ABC's "Ugly Betty," married musician Noah Lebenzon in a weekend ceremony.

Ortiz, 36, wore a white lace gown at Saturday's ceremony, which took place in an oceanview dining room of the Horned Dorset Primavera Hotel in Rincon, on the Caribbean island's west coast, manager Wilhelm Sack said Monday.

Among the 80 guests were Ortiz's cast members from "Ugly Betty," including star America Ferrera.

"I would call it a mixture between Hollywood and Puerto Rico," Sack said. "It was very glamorous."

Ortiz was honored for her role in the series with the best supporting actress award at the 2007 ALMA Awards, dedicated to achievements by Hispanic artists.

Lebenzon, 37, is a guitarist for the rock group Everything Is Energy.

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Oh Paris Hilton...you poor thang !

Barbara Walters brought the world a glimmer of hope this morning, repositioning fallen debutante Paris Hilton as newly reinvigorated with the gifts of spiritual clarity. But even as she passes long, hard hours behind bars sketching the preliminary floor plans for the Paris Hilton Living Doll House Pediatric Recovery Center--featuring real play-servants sick children can dress up and order around as they please!--there still appears to be no shortage of judgmental commentary on the Hilton affair, and the greater question of What It All Means For Our Society. A round-up from around the web:

Jamie Lee Curtis--who, having once swapped bodies with Lindsay Lohan, has first hand knowledge of what it means to walk a mile in a Hollywood party whorelet's shoes--places the blame for Paris's predicament on bad parenting.That means you, Kathy Hilton: She thinks you're a terrible mother.

Washoe County Detention Center inmate Joe Francis wrote in a letter to TMZ that his "heart goes out to Paris," because he has learned first hand how "incarceration is not set up for high-profile people." He then goes on to list in detail his daily routine (lunches of "chicken-Caesar salads...and a Diet Coke" from The Burger Barn, a cell "nicer than my USC dorm," and four hours of leisure time a day. [TMZ]

Charlotte County Jail inmate Traci Mace on how Paris can beautify with scarce prison cosmetic resources, including coffee eye shadow and the glitter scraped off greeting cards. [ABC News]


Yall need to realize that poor Paris Hilton