{"id":658085,"date":"2026-06-25T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T20:19:10","slug":"new-york-prosecutors-seek-to-drop-harvey-weinstein-rape-charge-harvey-weinstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658085\/","title":{"rendered":"New York prosecutors seek to drop Harvey Weinstein rape charge | Harvey Weinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday moved to drop a third-degree rape \u2060charge against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/harvey-weinstein\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a> after the woman accusing the disgraced movie mogul of assaulting her said she did not want to testify in \u2060what would have \u2060been \u200ba fourth trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Weinstein\u2019s third trial in New York state court over an allegation that he raped \u2060aspiring actress Jessica Mann ended in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/15\/harvey-weinsteins-new-york-mistrial\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mistrial in May<\/a> after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Mann \u2060accused Weinstein of raping her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 \u200bwhile Mann resisted and \u200crepeatedly said: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Weinstein, 74, \u200chad pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree rape and has \u200cdenied assaulting anyone or having non-consensual sex. A representative on Thursday said Weinstein was relieved by the outcome and believed the charge never should have been brought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The office of the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, said on Thursday that testifying before two grand juries and three trial juries \u200chad been an \u201cextraordinarily taxing ordeal\u201d for Mann and that she did not wish to take the stand again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Bragg\u2019s \u200boffice also said it asked the court to sentence Weinstein to 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting one-time production assistant Miriam Haley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Weinstein was convicted of raping Mann and assaulting Haley at his first trial \u2060in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a> in 2020, but the state\u2019s highest court overturned \u200bthe conviction after \u200bconcluding that he did not \u200bget a fair trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Weinstein, a former film producer \u200band co-founder of the Miramax studio, has remained \u200bbehind bars \u200bsince his conviction was overturned because of his conviction in another case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">More than 80 women have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or misconduct, allegations Weinstein denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday moved to drop a third-degree rape \u2060charge against Harvey Weinstein after the woman accusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}