{"id":2135545,"date":"2025-11-04T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2135545"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:59:20","slug":"arizona-celebrity-chef-found-guilty-of-murdering-wife-kids-on-christmas-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/arizona-celebrity-chef-found-guilty-of-murdering-wife-kids-on-christmas-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona celebrity chef found guilty of murdering wife, kids on Christmas 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 Valley celebrity chef Anthony Milan Ross has been found guilty of killing his wife and children on Christmas Day in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">On Monday, a Maricopa County jury found Ross guilty on all three counts of first-degree murder in the murder of his estranged wife, Iris, and his two children, 11-year-old Nigel and 10-month-old Anora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He was also found guilty on three counts of aggravated assault stemming from the murder and 17 counts of aggravated assault on a peace officer, because when police stormed the apartment, Ross reportedly shot at officers who fired back during a hours-long standoff with Phoenix PD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Ross was well-known for making a number of local television appearances, including on 3TV\u2019s Good Morning Arizona, where he was interviewed at the Scottsdale Food Festival nearly one year before the killings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">During <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/10\/trial-starts-phoenix-chef-accused-killing-wife-kids-christmas-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/2025\/09\/10\/trial-starts-phoenix-chef-accused-killing-wife-kids-christmas-2017\/\">opening statements in September<\/a>, prosecutors described Ross as someone obsessed with being a celebrity, whose success was a facade, and whose world came crashing down when his wife filed for divorce six months before the murders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Sentencing is set for Jan. 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><i>Jason Barry contributed to this report through prior coverage.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><i>See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <\/i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\"><i>Please click here to report it<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><i>Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <\/i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\"><i>it to us here<\/i><\/a><i> with a brief description.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.azfamily.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 Valley celebrity chef Anthony Milan Ross has been found guilty of killing his wife and children on Christmas Day in 2017. 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