Alex Da Silva, Choreographer For So You Think You Can Dance, Arrested For Sexual Assault

 Forty-one year-old dance instructor Alex Da Silva was arrested in Los Angeles yesterday for the sexual assault of four of his students. According to police, he is accused of having lured the women to his homes in North Hollywood and Van Nuys and getting them into his bedroom where he raped them.

Da Silva won the World Salsa Dancing Championships in 2002 and 2007 and has worked for the So You Think You Can Dance competition since. He also taught at the Edge Performing Arts Center in Hollywood and the Mayan Club in downtown Los Angeles and is known as a choreographer to the stars having taught such famous personalities as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, P. Diddy, Will Smith, and Vin Diesel.