{"id":233214,"date":"2026-05-15T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T22:19:45","slug":"harvey-weinsteins-third-new-york-rape-trial-ends-in-mistrial-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233214\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein\u2019s third New York rape trial ends in mistrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Harvey Weinstein\u2019s third trial in New York over allegations he used his Hollywood clout to prey upon and sexually abuse women ended \u200cin a mistrial on Friday, after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a charge he raped the aspiring actress Jessica Mann.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Weinstein, 74, was a top film producer until sexual misconduct allegations led to his downfall and fuelled a wider social movement that encouraged women to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse by \u2060powerful men.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The case, brought by the Manhattan district attorney\u2019s office, centred on allegations that Weinstein \u200craped Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 while Mann resisted and repeatedly said \u201cNo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree \u200crape and has denied assaulting anyone or having non-consensual sex.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His lawyers have \u2060argued that Mann \u2060fabricated the rape allegation after regretting that her consensual romance with Weinstein failed to advance her film career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former actress Jessica Mann appears in Manhattan criminal court to testify against Harvey Weinstein in April. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ad173900-c078-45a4-a0fc-f57587913c56_742ce4d7.jpg\" title=\"Former actress Jessica Mann appears in Manhattan criminal court to testify against Harvey Weinstein in April. Photo: AFP\"\/>Former actress Jessica Mann appears in Manhattan criminal court to testify against Harvey Weinstein in April. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At his \u200cfirst trial in New York in 2020, Weinstein was convicted of raping Mann and assaulting one-time production assistant Miriam Haley \u200cin 2006. \u200c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein\u2019s third trial in New York over allegations he used his Hollywood clout to prey upon and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2136,78292,6431,78293,40355,75,57754,84,83,81221,78291,9,24,63,3018,5474,15766,91481,750],"class_list":["post-233214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-california","tag-curtis-farber","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-jessica-mann","tag-kaja-sokola","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-district-attorneys-office","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-miramax","tag-miriam-haley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rape","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-sexual-misconduct","tag-third-degree-rape","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233214","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=233214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}