{"id":232070,"date":"2026-05-14T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232070\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:50:47","slug":"harvey-weinstein-back-in-court-after-feeling-ill-as-jury-deliberates-in-his-rape-retrial-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232070\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein back in court after feeling ill as jury deliberates in his rape retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 Harvey Weinstein<\/a> returned to court and jurors resumed deliberating in his rape retrial Thursday, a day after the former movie tycoon reported chest pains<\/a> while in the courthouse. <\/p>\n

Weinstein, who’s 74 and has a history of heart trouble<\/a> and other health woes, looked pale but alert as he was brought into court in the wheelchair he has used for years. He said he felt \u201cgood, fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ex-studio boss was in a courthouse holding area Wednesday when jurors, after a few hours of deliberating, sent a note asking to rehear some of accuser Jessica Mann<\/a> \u2019s testimony and to review a lengthy prosecution timeline of emails and other evidence. <\/p>\n

After defense lawyers, prosecutors and Judge Curtis Farber convened in court to decide how to respond, Weinstein attorney Marc Agnifilo said court officers had told him Weinstein was experiencing chest pains. <\/p>\n

Weinstein wasn’t brought into court at that point, and Farber ultimately sent jurors home Wednesday a bit earlier than planned, telling them there were \u201cunforeseen reasons\u201d for the early dismissal. <\/p>\n

Jurors got the requested information Thursday, revisiting testimony that Agnifilo had highlighted in his closing argument<\/a>: a moment when Mann said she was \u201cspacing out\u201d as a defense lawyer asked why she didn\u2019t want a friend to know that anything sexual had happened between her and Weinstein. The defense was trying to suggest that she was worried about her reputation, not an alleged rape that Weinstein says never happened. <\/p>\n

Jurors returned to their closed-door discussions. Over the ensuing hours, the jury asked to rehear Mann’s testimony about the alleged rape and the lead-up to it, and to go over the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt. That’s the legal bar that evidence must clear to justify a conviction. <\/p>\n

Jurors ultimately went home for the night without reaching a verdict. Deliberations are to resume Friday. <\/p>\n

Mann, 40, has testified<\/a> that she willingly had some sexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013 after she repeatedly said no. <\/p>\n

Weinstein’s lawyers maintain that the encounter was consensual. They have emphasized that Mann subsequently continued seeing Weinstein and expressing warmth<\/a> toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened.<\/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 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 this retrial<\/a>. Weinstein 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 did not 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

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Harvey Weinstein returned to court and jurors resumed deliberating in his rape retrial Thursday, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[78292,157,6431,78293,75,84,83,31035,9,24,63,421],"class_list":["post-232070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-curtis-farber","tag-entertainment","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-jessica-mann","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-marc-agnifilo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232070","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=232070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}