A designer and model feels “blessed” to be alive after rebuffing a creepy marriage proposal from Jared Ravizza, who now stands accused of stabbing six people in unprovoked attacks in Massachusetts last weekend.
Alyona Shikhova, 30, was holding a photoshoot for her Ashik clothing brand on April 14, at the Beverly Hills Hotel, when she came across Jared Ravizza, 26, who is also suspected of killing a 70-year-old man in Connecticut.
Shikhova told The Post Tuesday Ravizza weaseled his way onto her photoshoot before he began hitting on her, proposing almost immediately and suggesting they should have kids together.
“He said ‘I’m gonna be a good husband, you’re gonna be my wife,’” Shikhova recalled. “I think he liked me and he was used to getting what he wanted.
“I couldn’t imagine, at that moment, what he was capable of,” she added. “I am still in shock after reading about what he has done. I feel blessed to be alive. There are so many crazy people, we have to be really careful. You never know.”
Four of those Ravizza stabbed were children aged between nine and 17 who had gone to watch a movie at their local theatre.
Shikhova, an accomplished designer and graduate of Russia’s Ural Federal University, said Ravizza waltzed onto her set last month and promised he could help promote her brand with what he claimed was a huge online audience and connections to the Hamptons in New York and other glamorous places.
Although wary of the man, Shikhova took him up on his offer and allowed him to model her clothes, with the two of them appearing in one of her Instagram videos wearing matching pink hoodies with the caption, “never ever ever be basic.”
Ravizza, who sports distinctive long blond locks, then invited her to the hotel pool, and it was then the casual meeting turned unsettling and ominous.
“We’d just met and he was already proposing and promising me a lot of things right away,” Shikhova said. “It was just weird.”
Ravizza allegedly started to tout his wealth, showing her pictures of him and his father, who he said had just been on a vacation in Hawaii. The man also showed off different houses he claimed to own around the world.
“He said he had a few houses everywhere, in Malibu, the Hamptons, and other places,” she added, with Ravizza allegedly offering to help her open stores for her clothing brand in those cities.
Shikhova said she ultimately felt uncomfortable with Ravizza’s advances and left the hotel, only texting him a couple of times afterwards to reach an agreement on which photos and videos she would post of them to promote her brand.
She said she never spoke to Ravizza again, only learning about his unhinged alleged attacks after seeing his picture on the news and speaking with reporters.
“At that time he dressed like a man. He wasn’t wearing any makeup or nail polish,” Shikhova said, referencing Ravizza’s recent instagram photos where he adopted a more feminine appearance and changed his name.
“In moments like this, I just feel it’s such a gift to be alive,” Shikhova added on Instagram.
Ravizza, of Chilmark, was arraigned at Plymouth District Court on Tuesday morning on charges including one count of assault to murder, two counts of assault and battery, and indecent exposure in relation to the McDonald’s stabbings.
A judge ordered him to be held in custody for a mental health evaluation. He will also face charges in Norfolk for his alleged stabbing of the four girls in Braintree.
Connecticut State Police also confirmed Ravizza is a person of interest in the death of Bruce Feldman, 70, who was found dead inside the Deep River home they were renting together hours before the alleged stabbing spree.