Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Supreme Court.
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A month after a Manhattan judge declared a mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s third rape trial, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that he would not pursue the same charges against the media mogul a fourth time.
Bragg said that he had discussed the matter with Jessica Mann, the actress and hairstylist who alleged that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, and she said she didn’t want to testify in the case again.
The most recent mistrial involving Mann’s charges was the second time a jury was unable to reach a verdict in her case, and her third time testifying about her sexual encounters with Weinstein in graphic testimony in front of a trial jury.
“In accordance with our survivor-centered approach to prosecutions, we informed the court that we will not retry the remaining count of rape in the third degree,” Bragg said in a statement. “To be clear, we believe Ms. Mann’s account and her credibility as a witness. This has been an extraordinarily taxing ordeal for her, and she has never wavered while testifying in front of two grand juries and three trial juries over the course of eight years. We thank her for her honesty and her tremendous bravery.”
Weinstein’s legal counsel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Weinstein was first convicted in a New York state trial in early 2020 of third-degree rape involving Mann, but the New York Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 2024, ruling that the judge had improperly allowed testimony from women who were not directly a part of the case. The jury then deadlocked in a 2025 retrial over Mann’s charges.
In the New York trial last year, Weinstein was convicted of forcing oral sex on former “Project Runway” assistant Miriam Haley in 2006 and not guilty of assaulting Polish model Kaja Sokola.
Bragg said he reached the decision in light of the conviction on the charges involving Haley, and that his office recommended that Weinstein be sentenced to 20 years in prison in that matter.
“I want survivors of sexual violence in Manhattan to know that we believe you, and we will fight for you. We stand with survivors, today and every day,” Bragg said.