{"id":278386,"date":"2026-06-25T22:31:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278386\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:31:47","slug":"what-to-know-about-harvey-weinsteins-cases-after-a-rape-charge-was-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278386\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Harvey Weinstein’s cases after a rape charge was dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 New York prosecutors have dropped a rape charge<\/a> against Harvey Weinstein<\/a> instead of trying it a fourth time. His accuser supported Thursday’s decision, which puts an end to one piece of a landmark #MeToo-era prosecution.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t clear the former Hollywood honcho’s criminal record. The 74-year-old has been convicted of other sex crimes in two states and is still behind bars while he appeals those verdicts.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what you need to know about the case:<\/p>\n

Charge dropped when accuser said she couldn’t endure another trial<\/p>\n

Jessica Mann<\/a>, the hairstylist and actor who accused Weinstein of raping her in a New York hotel room in 2013, told the court in a letter that she \u201ccould no longer endure going through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

She had given extensive, emotional testimony at three trials. One produced a conviction<\/a> that later got overturned<\/a> for reasons unrelated to her testimony. Then two retrials ended in hung juries<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Mann, 40, said in her letter that she \u201cgave my all\u201d in the case, it \u201cput me through more harm than good\u201d and she wanted to close this chapter of her life.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said they believed Mann and were confident in the case, but they would drop it because of her wishes and Weinstein’s other convictions.<\/p>\n

Weinstein’s lawyers said the charge should never have been brought in the first place. <\/p>\n

He denies the allegation, and his lawyers said the encounter was part of a consensual, yearslong relationship. Mann testified<\/a> that in the early months of that relationship, Weinstein raped her after cornering her in a Manhattan hotel room, grabbing her arms and ignoring her repeated pleas not to have sex.<\/p>\n

Dismissal doesn’t affect Weinstein’s convictions<\/p>\n

Mann’s allegation was one of a number of criminal charges that evolved from a 2017 deluge of sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> against Weinstein, an Oscar-winning producer who had huge sway in Hollywood. The accusations propelled the #MeToo movement<\/a> against sexual assault and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n

Weinstein was convicted of some charges and acquitted of others at trials in New York and California. The dismissal of the Mann-related case doesn’t affect his convictions, which involved other women. <\/p>\n

Weinstein is facing sentencing in other case<\/p>\n

Weinstein, who has said<\/a> he \u201cnever assaulted anyone,\u201d is challenging his convictions. He was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting an Italian actor-model in Los Angeles<\/a> and sexually assaulting Miriam Haley<\/a>, a production assistant and producer, in New York.<\/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 and Haley have done.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, 74, is facing sentencing in September on the conviction tied to Haley \u2014 a verdict reached in at a 2025 retrial<\/a> after an appeals court reversed an earlier conviction. Haley testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her after inviting her to stop by his Manhattan apartment before a flight in July 2006. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year sentence for that conviction. Weinstein’s lawyers say they haven’t yet decided what sentence they will seek.<\/p>\n

After whatever punishment Weinstein gets in New York, he faces a 16-year sentence<\/a> in California. <\/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 New York prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein instead of trying it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[157,6431,78293,75,84,83,78291,9,24,63,421],"class_list":["post-278386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-entertainment","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-jessica-mann","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-miriam-haley","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\/278386","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=278386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}