{"id":278686,"date":"2026-06-26T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T07:13:08","slug":"harvey-weinsteins-new-york-rape-charge-dropped-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278686\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein&#8217;s New York rape charge dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein will not face a fourth New York trial over the alleged rape of actress Jessica Mann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors dropped the case on Thursday after his accuser said she could not bear to testify again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In May, Weinstein&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/14\/rape-retrial-of-disgraced-hollywood-producer-harvey-weinstein-begins-in-new-york-court\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:third trial over the allegation;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;third trial over the allegation&quot;}\" class=\"link \">third trial over the allegation<\/a> ended in a mistrial after the jury said it was deadlocked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The jury had been unable to reach a unanimous decision over whether Weinstein had raped Mann in 2013 in a New York hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mann appeared to support Thursday&#8217;s decision, saying in a letter that prosecutor Nicole Blumberg read to the court: &#8220;After a lot of thought and reflection, I have chosen not to proceed with a fourth trial against Harvey Weinstein. It was clear to me at this last trial I could no longer endure going through this any longer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mann added that the 8-year-old case has \u201cput me through more harm than good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blumberg told the court that prosecutors believe Mann and hail her \u201cbravery, strength, courage and inspiration\u201d to other survivors, but given her feelings about proceeding, \u201cdismissal is appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to the charge of rape in the third degree, and has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He left court with a neutral expression, returning to jail to await a September sentencing on a New York sexual assault conviction involving a different woman. Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year prison term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Once Weinstein finishes the punishment he gets in New York, he is due to serve 16 years in California, where he was convicted of raping a third woman. He is appealing both convictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein will not face a fourth New York trial over the alleged rape of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[107112,6431,78293,9,11,10,5269],"class_list":["post-278686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alleged-rape","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-jessica-mann","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-prosecutors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278686","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=278686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}