Harvey Weinstein

Evgeniya Chernyshova, the Jane Doe whose testimony prompted a guilty verdict, on Harvey Weinstein's conviction and why she no longer chooses anonymity.

“I finally have a voice and I can speak,” she says. “This is a made-up story,” Weinstein said, while seated in a wheelchair and wearing a gray L.A. “I felt very, very dirty and like I have to die,” she says. In October of 2022, Chernyshova took the stand as Jane Doe 1 for three days of testimony in Weinstein’s trial, which she calls, “the worst experience of my life.” She couldn’t sleep during that period, and was regularly vomiting from the stress. “And that is the thing I have regretted for the last 10 years — that I did open this door,” she says. “I was hating myself,” Chernyshova says. “And she told me that she does understand, because she has been raped.” When mother and daughter realized that they shared this painful bond, Maria says, it was devastating. She didn’t feel she was in danger, she says, she felt embarrassed, and she wanted him to stop, so she opened the door. “I heard somebody talking loudly in the background, and then he took the phone and said, ‘It’s Harvey and we have to talk,’ And I was like, ‘What?’ So confused. She was the first of 44 witnesses the prosecution called to testify in the trial, and she is the only person the court allowed to deliver a statement at Weinstein’s sentencing on Feb. “A lot of people think it’s just ice there and white bears,” she says of her home. “Part of me, I’m fearing for my future,” she says of speaking publicly now.

Harvey Weinstein, a former Hollywood mogul, who became a symbol of the widespread sexual misconduct by powerful men that sparked the #MeToo movement, ...

Harvey Weinstein is the first known public figure against whom the #MeToo movement started.

Evgeniya Chernyshova has previously only been referred to as 'Jane Doe 1', a nameless Italian actress who Weinstein attacked in Beverly Hills ten years ago.

'I told her that she would never really be able to understand me. She later moved to the US with her children. Jurors also remained deadlocked in regards to rape and sexual assault charges leveled by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Jurors voted 8-4 in her favor but could not reach a verdict After the rape, Chernyshova and her husband separated. I was out of my mind.' 'He just walked through me and went directly to the chair. She was in L.A. Chernyshova, left, in 2013, and right, more recently. I’m not going to f**k you, I just have to talk to you." He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York but has now been given an additional 16 years behind bars He was already serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York.

The former Hollywood producer is already serving a 23-year sentence for a separate conviction in New York in 2020 for similar sex crimes.

The woman he was convicted of raping cried in the courtroom as he spoke. His attempts to appeal the New York conviction so far have failed, but the state’s highest court has agreed to hear a further appeal. He was extradited to an LA prison in July 2021 to face trial there. The name Jane Doe 1 was given to the woman he was convicted of raping in a hotel room in February 2013 during a film festival. The 70-year-old is already serving a 23-year sentence for a separate conviction in New York in 2020 for similar sex crimes. “Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman.

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California's first partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom released a raw video discussing her own trauma after rapist Harvey Weinstein was sentenced.

Then, when a victim later comes to terms with what’s happened, we say that version of events must be a lie. I tried all sorts of therapies, trying to make sense of it all, trying to heal the physical manifestations of trauma. We break women by ignoring the very cells of our DNA, and it passes down from generation to generation.” This after defense attorney Mark Werksman called her “just another bimbo who slept with Harvey Weinstein to get ahead.” [sexual violence](https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article268170172.html) have one hell of an ally in the newly unshackled [Jennifer Siebel Newsom](https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article270223847.html), feminist documentary filmmaker and wife of California Gov. [former king of Hollywood Harvey Weinstein](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/us/harvey-weinstein-sentence-los-angeles.html), was sentenced to 16 more years in prison, “ [I never asked to join this club. jury found Weinstein guilty on three counts — forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object — all of the same woman, identified as Jane Doe 1. When I told my own mother that I’d been raped, decades after the fact, she at first insisted that that couldn’t be the case. He had broken me into a million pieces.” It’s that someone in her position is saying it, out loud and on such a big platform, that makes it a departure. Not because all of this happened to her; many if not most women have multiple stories along these lines. Only she was allowed to give a victim statement in court, where she said his crimes against her had left her feeling “heartbroken, empty and alone” for many years.

The charges stemmed from an assault on a former model and actress, identified in court as Jane Doe 1, at a Los Angeles hotel 10 years ago.

Defence attorneys argued that the women willingly had sex with Weinstein because they believed he would advance their careers, part of what they said was a widespread “casting couch” culture in the film industry. He was extradited from New York to California in July 2021 to face trial in Los Angeles. The movement, which went viral on social media in 2017, seeks to break a culture of silence that has long allowed such conduct to go unchallenged. Addressing the court through tears and a trembling voice near the end of Thursday’s hearing, the woman said she had been a “very happy and confident woman” until Weinstein raped her. Weinstein professed his innocence and implored the judge, “I beg your mercy,” moments before she pronounced his sentence. “This is a made-up story.

Evgeniya Chernyshova is speaking out after the disgraced Hollywood film producer was sentenced to 16 years in prison for raping her.

She was staying at the Mr. But it was a horrible decision for myself because I’ve been cut off from everyone. This is my story,” the former actor and model told There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.” Everything changed after the defendant brutally assaulted me. “I want my life back.

Paris did not speak up about the incident, which happened in 2000, because Weinstein's behavior was “a known thing” that people turned “a blind eye” to.

He was just like that and people were like, ‘OK, just turn a blind eye.’” “I went into the bathroom and then he followed me,” she said. And literally you would scream and cry, they would hold you down, four of them, men and women, and literally just be putting fingers … “I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. Hilton recounted: “I was like, ‘I don’t want people getting mad at me for saying anything,’ because it was just a known thing. Weinstein ended up being forcibly removed from the bathroom, with Hilton adding: “Security came and literally carried him away and he was like: ‘This is my party,’ going nuts.

Paris Hilton has claimed that Harvey Weinstein followed her into a toilet and began banging on the stall door when she was a teenager.

I valued myself and the relationship I had with God. ‘Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman. And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, “I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?” And I just wouldn’t open it. I don’t know that woman and she doesn’t know me. He was just like that and people were like, “Okay, just turn a blind eye.”’ I maintain that I am innocent,’ he said, via the publication. ‘He said, unfortunately, Paris Hilton is trying to get in on the current new cycle using his name with yet another creative story. Jane Doe One can turn on the tears. He never yelled at her and never followed her. ‘And security came and literally carried him away and he was like [shouting], “This is my party,” going nuts. ‘I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. You can come up to my room and read scripts.” And I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.’

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Evgeniya Chernyshova, known in the Harvey Weinstein trial as "Jane Doe #1," tells her side of the story.

[the sentencing](https://www.avclub.com/harvey-weinstein-sentenced-to-16-more-years-in-prison-1850150015), “I feel free, and a heavy weight and burden has been lifted off my chest. The road to the Los Angeles trial was slow going, and when it finally happened in 2022 Chernyshova described it as “the worst experience of my life.” She said, “The defense lawyers’ techniques, how they And I want to say this—this is not only my victory, this is our victory.” “I told her that there was only one condition that I was gonna be able to [report my case], and that’s if she also came forward with her case,” the former model explained. Known throughout the trial as “Jane Doe 1,” the survivor, Evgeniya Chernyshova, revealed her identity in a new interview with [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-jane-doe-victim-reveals-identity-1235333076/). [multiple women](https://www.avclub.com/california-governor-wife-harvey-weinstein-rape-trial-1849785224), the disgraced producer was only convicted in connection to the assault of one woman in particular.

On Friday, Jane Doe 1 finally revealed her identity to the Hollywood Reporter. She is Evgeniya Chernyshova, a 43-year-old mother of two who was born in Siberia, ...

I will never get that back,” she told The Times in a statement after the verdict was read, still identifying herself as Jane Doe 1 after her three days of painful testimony in his trial. She told The Times in 2017 that once he was in her room, Weinstein repeatedly bragged about his power and influence and told her not to fight him. “He then dragged me to the bathroom and forcibly raped me.” When he left, she said, he told her she was very beautiful and that she could work in Hollywood. ... He deserves to experience the same shame, humiliation and fear as I did.” “He grabbed me by the hair and forced me to do something I did not want to do,” she said in 2017. After sentencing the disgraced former producer, Judge Lisa Lench ruled that Weinstein could not serve his New York and L.A. Later that night she returned to her hotel and changed into a robe, only to have Weinstein call up from the lobby “without warning” — she hadn’t told him where she was staying — and demand to know her room number. That was followed days later by a similar piece from the [New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories). When they were in Rome, he had invited her up to his room, but she declined, she told The Times. She and her husband separated, and he has since died. [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html) published the first investigation of Weinstein. At some point she moved to Southern California; she now runs a floral design business in Beverly Hills, according to an interview published Friday by

Both cases were highly publicized and exposed many of the issues with sexual assault reporting, investigating and convicting.

The same year, he was charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and two federal indictments after that, per [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/23/entertainment/rkelly-chicago-child-porn-sentence/index.html). “It seems clear that prosecutors are going to keep taking these cases and that people accused and convicted of sexual violence are going to serve long prison terms. [2017 Buzzfeed](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-told-police-r-kelly-is-keeping-women-in-a-cult#.eujv3ZGkD) article revealed further allegations of sex crimes Kelly was performing on underage girls without their consent. [the Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/us/harvey-weinstein-sentence-los-angeles.html). ... He deserves to experience the same shame, humiliation and fear as I did,” per The sentencing further manifests the disgraced Hollywood director will spend the rest of his life in prison for the heinous crimes, I have lost my dreams due to Robert Kelly. [the Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/arts/music/r-kelly-sentenced-federal-child-sex-crimes.html). Kelly was accused of sexually abusing his 14-year-old goddaughter and produced three videos of himself doing so. He received a 20-year prison sentence that he will serve mostly concurrently with a 30-year sentence for a racketeering and sex trafficking conviction, Both cases were highly publicized and exposed many of the issues with sexual assault reporting, investigating and convicting. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein both received additional sentences on Thursday for convictions related to sexual assault crimes.

Harvey Weinstein's defense team is finalizing their appeal for his L.A. conviction, which resulted in a 16-year sentence.

He was convicted on the three counts relating to Jane Doe #1 — so, it’s feasible to see where Weinstein’s defense team was hopeful in strategizing for a new trial, given that the jury did not find Weinstein guilty of the other women’s charges. “She sued him for money,” Jackson said at the sentencing, arguing that the lawsuit constitutes “new evidence” that impeaches her credibility, and told the judge the defense was “disallowed” from asking about her “financial motive.” The jury found Weinstein guilty, but in a split verdict he was also acquitted on one charge and the jury could not come to an unanimous agreement on the three remaining charges. “They would never have voted to convict if they knew the truth.” Jackson said the purpose of introducing the text messages into evidence was not for “promiscuity,” but to establish her whereabouts the night she testified she was raped. Lench said that she considered the text messages and did not believe them to be relevant evidence for the jury. The defense has said they have text messages that would impeach her credibility, and that the jury would not have convicted if the defense had been allowed to introduce those messages between her and the festival organizer.