Harvey Weinstein rape charge ends in mistrial after New York jury fails to reach verdict

Harvey Weinstein’s latest New York rape trial has ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on a third-degree rape charge involving former actress Jessica Mann.

Judge Curtis Farber declared the mistrial after the jury deliberated for three days without reaching consensus on whether Weinstein raped Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013.

The charge was the last unresolved count in Weinstein’s retrial. Prosecutors alleged that Weinstein sexually assaulted Mann after a complicated relationship that included both consensual and non-consensual encounters. Weinstein has consistently denied the allegation, maintaining that the encounter was consensual.

The retrial followed the 2024 decision by New York’s highest court to overturn Weinstein’s 2020 conviction, which had been considered a landmark moment in the #MeToo movement.

Weinstein remains incarcerated because he is still serving a separate 16-year sentence stemming from his 2022 sex crimes conviction in Los Angeles, which he is appealing. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has not yet announced whether it will seek to retry Weinstein again on the unresolved rape charge.