A California fashion designer was attacked online this week after internet sleuths dug up a year-old video in which she posed alongside a Martha’s Vineyard man who has been accused in a stabbing spree along the South Shore and is suspected in a Connecticut killing. Alyona Shikhova, 30, said she shot the video with Jared Ravizza in April 2023 during a chance encounter at the Beverly Hills Hotel that lasted less than an hour and had minimal contact afterward with the 26-year-old, who allegedly stabbed six people in Massachusetts last weekend. Shikhova, a Russian immigrant who settled in Southern California about three years ago, was shocked to learn of the allegations against Ravizza after the online attacks began.
Advertisement “I started getting a lot of hate messages on Instagram first, and I couldn’t believe that it’s all real,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “They just all start texting me crazy, crazy aggressive messages that they want me to die and all that stuff.” In an Instagram story, Shikhova posted screenshots of some of the abusive private messages, which appeared to blame her in some way for Ravizza’s alleged crimes.
Public comments left on the post included, “u okay with this sicko stabbing kids????” The encounter between Ravizza and Shikhova was first reported by the New York Post . The six-second video that sparked the furor was shot April 14, 2023, at an outdoor lounge area at the hotel and shows Shikhova and Ravizza walking an imagina.