{"id":230171,"date":"2026-05-13T17:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230171\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:19:10","slug":"jury-deliberations-begin-in-harvey-weinsteins-rape-retrial-in-new-york-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/230171\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury deliberations begin in Harvey Weinstein’s rape retrial in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors started deliberating Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein<\/a> \u2019s rape retrial<\/a>, weighing an unresolved piece of a case that epitomized the #MeToo movement<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The jury is tasked with deciding whether the former movie mogul raped hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann<\/a> in a Manhattan hotel on March 18, 2013. <\/p>\n

Mann, 40, testified<\/a> that the two had a consensual relationship, but that Weinstein subjected her to unwanted sex that day after she repeatedly said no.<\/p>\n

Lawyers for Weinstein, 74, have maintained that the encounter was consensual, and they have emphasized that Mann continued seeing Weinstein afterward and expressing warmth<\/a> toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened and that she was \u201cnormalizing everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a series of sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled the #MeToo campaign to hold people \u2014 especially powerful men \u2014 accountable for sexual misbehavior. Weinstein has said<\/a> he \u201cacted wrongly\u201d but never assaulted anyone.<\/p>\n

Some of those accusations later generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and California<\/a>. <\/p>\n

An appeals court overturned<\/a> his 2020 New York conviction<\/a> on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jurors failed to reach a verdict<\/a> on Mann’s portion of the case, leading to a second retrial this year<\/a>. He is charged with one count of rape in the third degree. <\/p>\n

The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, five days<\/a> of it from Mann. Weinstein decided not to testify. <\/p>\n

The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to be named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors started deliberating Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein \u2019s rape retrial, weighing an unresolved piece…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9279,53271,157,417,4720,75,84,83,73125,9,24,63,3019,4721,421],"class_list":["post-230171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-a","tag-e","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-juries","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-n","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sexual-assault","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}