Evgeniya Chernyshova is a Siberian woman based in Los Angeles, California, United States. As a child, she aspired to be an obstetrician but after winning a local beauty contest, she got a modeling contract.

Chernyshova and her late husband have one son and two daughters together. They lived in Italy before moving to the U.S.

Aside from being a certified doula, Chernyshova also runs Bottega Bouquet, a floral design business in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 1994, she started modelling.
2. In 1999, she gave birth to her son.
3. In 2001, she gave birth to her first daughter.
4. In 2006, she gave birth to her second daughter.
5. In 2009, she played Elizabeth in the television film “Triggerman“, which starred Terence Hill and Clare Carey.
6. In 2010, she played Annelke in the TV film “The Last Paradise“, which starred Massimo Ghini, Elena Sofia Ricci and Diane Fleri.
7. In 2011, she played Irina in “Baciati dall’amore” Season 1 episode 5.
8. On February 17, 2013, she attended the 8th Los Angeles Italia Film Festival at the Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Harvey Weinstein, then 61, introduced himself to her at the time unaware that they had met before at an entertainment industry gathering in Rome, Italy. Later that day, he allegedly went to her room at the Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles while she was alone and sexually assaulted her.
9. In 2016, she played Spider Woman in the short film “The Nice Guys: Meet the Nice Guys“, which starred Shane Black, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling.
10. In September 2017, she found out that her first daughter was sexually assaulted by a boy in high school. She encouraged her daughter to tell police about the assault. In October 2017, her attorney Dave Ring brought her to the detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department where she reported how Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 2013.
11. In January 2020, Weinstein was charged with her rape.
12. In October 2022, she took the stand as Jane Doe 1 for three days of testimony in Weinstein’s trial. On December 19, 2022, she was driving to pick out a Christmas tree near her home in Los Angeles when she got a message from Ring telling her that Weinstein was found guilty of three of seven charges.
13. On February 9, 2023, she filed a civil case against Weinstein seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for sexual battery, false imprisonment, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress. She was 43 years old when he was sentenced on February 23, 2023 in Los Angeles to 16 additional years for forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and penetration by foreign object. She was the only person the court allowed to deliver a statement at his sentencing that day.