The actress who was the victim of the rape in 2013 for which Harvey Weinstein was jailed yesterday has appeared one day after his sentence.
Evgeniya Chernyshova, now 43, was previously known only as ‘Jane Doe 1’, an unnamed Italian actress whom Weinstein attacked in Beverly Hills ten years ago.
Today, in an interview with the hollywood reportershe is speaking for the first time.
Weinstein was sentenced yesterday for an additional 16 years after a trial in Los Angeles. He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York.
I’m tired of hiding. I want my life back. I am Evgeniya, I was raped. This is my story.
Evgeniya Chernyshova, now 43, was previously known only as ‘Jane Doe 1’, an unnamed Italian actress whom Weinstein attacked in Beverly Hills ten years ago. She is shown in 2013 during the trip where Weinstein attacked her.
Weinstein is shown in court in October 2022. He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York, but has now been given an additional 16 years behind bars.
‘Part of me is fearing for my future. But I’m proud of myself. If I keep hiding, I can’t do anything. I’ll be there with my pain,’ he said.
Chernyshova told the court how Weinstein raped her in 2013 after showing up uninvited at her hotel room at the Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel.
Chernyshova grew up in Siberia but had moved to Italy and was living there with her husband at the time of the attack.
She was in Los Angeles on a business trip when Weinstein attacked her. She still lives in Los Angeles, where she runs a flower shop.
After showing up at her hotel room, he told her through the door: ‘Hi, I’m Harvey Weinstein. Open the door. We need to talk. I’m not going to fuck with you, I just have to talk to you.”
They had met only twice before; once in Rome, and earlier that day at an event.
Weinstein showed up at her hotel room and she let him in.
‘And that’s what I’ve regretted for the last 10 years: opening this door.
Chernyshova, left, in 2013, and right, more recently. She has decided to come forward now after enduring the “hell” of remaining anonymous and not being able to connect with Weinstein’s other victims.
Chernyshova told the court how Weinstein raped her in 2013 after showing up uninvited at her hotel room at the Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel.
‘He just walked right through me and went straight to the chair. He said, “We’re just talking. It’s okay. Why are you so nervous?”
‘Something clicked, like a change in his eyes. I realized something was wrong,” she said.
He opened his pants and I became hysterical. I kept showing him pictures of my children, trying to convince him that “I have children, please don’t do that.”
But he did what he did. He assaulted me in the bedroom, then dragged me to the bathroom and there he raped me.
“I felt very, very dirty and like I had to die,” she said.
After the rape, Chernyshova and her husband separated. She has since died. She later moved to the United States with her children.
‘I hated myself. He was thinking all the time, “There were a lot of beautiful women and stars there, and he chose you. So it was you who did something.”
‘I was depressed, I was not mentally stable. He was crazy.
In 2017, his Maria, now 21 but 16 at the time, told him that she had been sexually assaulted by a boy at school.
Jurors remained deadlocked over sexual assault allegations brought by the masseuse, who broke down in court earlier this month when she recalled how Weinstein groped and masturbated in front of her in a bathroom after one of their dates in 2010.
Screaming through tears at times during her passionate testimony, the 48-year-old wife of California’s most prominent politician testified that Weinstein raped her when she was 31 and was trying to build a career as an actress and producer. Jurors voted 8-4 in her favor but were unable to reach a verdict.
Jurors also remained deadlocked on rape and sexual assault charges brought by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who claims Weinstein sexually assaulted her during a 2005 meeting, telling her to ‘relax, this is going to kill you. it will make you feel better.’ ‘
She begged him to let her go to the police, but the teen resisted, saying she “wouldn’t understand” what she was going through.
‘I told him that he would never really be able to understand me. And she told me that she does understand, because she has been raped,’ said Maria, who agreed to be identified.
They made a pact that they would both denounce their abusers.
She had begun consulting with a lawyer when The New York Times published the first story of Weinstein’s abuse of women in Hollywood.
Chernyshova chose to remain anonymous throughout the trial in an effort to protect her children’s privacy.
Now, she says that she wishes she had introduced herself sooner.
‘I did it because I was embarrassed and humiliated. I thought it was a good decision to protect my children.
“But it was a horrible decision for me because they have isolated me from everyone. It’s not okay to go through this hell alone,’ she said.
He watched Weinstein’s trial in New York from afar, waiting for his own day in court, which came this year.
Testifying was the “worst experience of his life,” he said.
“The techniques of the defense attorneys, how they harass and humiliate you, it’s brutal,” he said.
“I was afraid of Harvey Weinstein, that he would hurt me, or send someone to hurt me, or ruin my career, or make my life hell,” Lauren Young said during an emotional testimony.
Weinstein’s lawyer asked him why he posted a photo from the film festival after the rape showing him smiling with Al Pacino.
‘He wanted to make me look unbelievable. “You don’t go out, you don’t smile, you have to die. If you were raped, you have to die, that’s all. There is no life after.”
Chernyshova’s testimony led to her claim being the only one out of four to be convicted.
The jury acquitted Weinstein of another charge and failed to reach a verdict on the other two.
She says that she believes in all the women who testified and sees her conviction as a victory for all of them.
Weinstein, at his sentencing, accused her of lying.
‘This is an invented story. Jane Doe 1 is an actress, and she brought tears,” she told the court.
The once-powerful media mogul, 70, was found guilty of rape and two other counts of sexual assault at a Los Angeles trial in December after previously being sentenced in 2020 for sex crimes in New York City. .
