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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Timothy A. Clary\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n
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NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Jurors deadlocked in Harvey Weinstein \u2019s rape retrial Friday, forcing another mistrial in a #MeToo-era case that has gone to trial three times so far.<\/p>\n
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While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo. Prosecutors were pondering whether to try the case a fourth time, after some jurors said outside court that nine out of 12 wanted to acquit Weinstein.<\/p>\n
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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch\/New York Post via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n
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Jessica Mann arrives for Harvey Weinstein’s trial in criminal court, in New York, Monday, April 27, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Steven Hirsch \/New York Post via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n
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Jessica Mann arrives for Harvey Weinstein’s trial in criminal court, in New York, Tuesday, April 28, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Weinstein, 74, showed little reaction as he was ushered from court, but his attorneys said later that he was pleased with the outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s not the win that he wanted, but it\u2019s a win, and we\u2019re going to keep fighting,\u201d attorney Marc Agnifilo said, adding that the defense believed it has “outstanding\u201d prospects if the case is retried.<\/p>\n
The majority-male Manhattan jury weighed whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein\u2019s lawyers argued that the encounter was consensual. It happened in 2013 during a fraught relationship between the then-married Weinstein and the decades-younger Mann.<\/p>\n
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Deliberations began Wednesday. On Friday, after the jury sent two notes in 90 minutes saying it was stuck, Judge Curtis Farber declared a mistrial.<\/p>\n
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Some jurors said they were struck by gaps in what Mann recalled, particularly when defense lawyers were questioning her.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe prevailing thought was that the witness had a lot of inconsistencies in her story,\u201d said juror Josh Hadar, 57. He favored acquittal: \u201cI don’t come to that easily, but it just seemed that there was enough reasonable doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another juror, Sarae Perez, 25, noted that she studied feminism and is well versed in #MeToo, but she also couldn’t overcome uncertainties about Mann’s account.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were places where we couldn\u2019t trust her word for it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Accuser’s reaction: ‘I deserve justice’<\/p>\n
Mann said in a statement that the mistrial \u201cdoesn\u2019t in any way detract from the truth I told.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI deserve justice, which is why I stand up and face unbearable public scrutiny in the name of a greater good,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hailed Mann’s \u201cperseverance and bravery\u201d and said in a statement that prosecutors will consult her about next steps. They’re due to say next month whether they will retry the case.<\/p>\n
How the case returned for a third trial<\/p>\n
As an Oscar-winning movie producer and studio boss, Weinstein was one of Hollywood\u2019s most powerful figures and a significant Democratic donor before the long-suppressed sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against him cascaded into public view in 2017. The revelations galvanized the #MeToo movement \u2019s demands for accountability for sexual misconduct, made Weinstein a pariah, bankrupted the studio and ultimately led to criminal charges against him in New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
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He was convicted of some and acquitted of others. Yet Mann\u2019s allegation lingered. Weinstein was convicted of the charge in 2020. Then an appeals court overturned that verdict, and jury deliberations broke down at a 2025 retrial. That paved the way for this year\u2019s retrial.<\/p>\n
Weinstein has said he was unfaithful to his then-wife and \u201cacted wrongly, but I never assaulted anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The accuser’s account <\/p>\n
Mann, now 40, met Weinstein at a Los Angeles party in early 2013, when she hoped to build a handful of acting credits into a big career. She said his pushy intimate overtures discomfited her at first, but she acceded to them and decided to develop a relationship with him.<\/p>\n
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However, she said she made it clear she didn\u2019t want sex on March 18, 2013, when he unexpectedly got a room at a Manhattan hotel where she was staying with a friend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said \u2018no,\u2019 over and over, and I tried to leave,\u201d she told jurors during five days of intense testimony. She said Weinstein slammed the door, grabbed her arms and ordered her to undress. Scared, she gave up protesting, she said and alleged that he ultimately raped her.<\/p>\n
Weinstein\u2019s lawyers highlighted an introspective, private note that Mann wrote herself two days later. While saying nothing about the alleged rape, the note discussed her conflicted feelings about becoming \u201cemotionally attached\u201d in a nonexclusive relationship with a man she didn\u2019t name. She testified that she hadn’t needed to write down the alleged rape.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they choose to make their names public, as Mann has done.<\/p>\n
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Weinstein’s defense<\/p>\n
Weinstein didn\u2019t testify. In his lawyers\u2019 telling, Mann was a willing partner in a close, supportive relationship with a show-business insider who opened doors for her, but she turned on him once he became an outcast.<\/p>\n
In the months and years after the New York encounter, Mann kept seeing and communicating with Weinstein, emails and testimony showed. At times, she pulled away to pursue another relationship; at others, she turned back to Weinstein, who validated her acting dreams and comforted her when her father was terminally ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love u. Anything u need,\u201d Weinstein wrote.<\/p>\n
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He helped Mann land a movie audition \u2014 it went nowhere \u2014 and a hairstyling job. She asked him for help with such things as a car problem, though she declined cash that he tried to send when she couldn\u2019t make rent.<\/p>\n
In one of her last emails to Weinstein, in February 2017, she wrote: \u201cI love you, always do. But I hate feeling like a booty call.\u201d When he responded by suggesting she was \u201cjoking\u201d and should stop using his company email, she said it was a joke and apologized.<\/p>\n
Eight months later, news reports about other women’s allegations prompted her to go to the police.<\/p>\n
Mann never sued Weinstein, but after his 2020 conviction, she filed for and got about $500,000 from a sexual misconduct settlement fund set up during his company\u2019s bankruptcy. His lawyers didn’t mention the payout at this trial.<\/p>\n
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Associated Press journalists Ed White in Detroit and Joseph B. Frederick in New York contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan criminal court on Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (Timothy A. Clary\/Pool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3015,78292,6431,90330,78293,91408,75,84,83,31035,9,24,63,833,834,2376,3065,2336,829,2337,831,2338,27231],"class_list":["post-233195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-curtis-farber","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-harvey-weinstein-rape-retrial-jury-deliberations-metoo","tag-jessica-mann","tag-josh-hadar","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-marc-agnifilo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30031-ap-california-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233195","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=233195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}