The Jessica Mann accusations of rape are lost in a judicial maze.
Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial in NYC was declared a mistrial – again.
This was the THIRD New York trial on the rape charge involving hairstylist and actress Jessica Mann.
His original 2020 conviction was overturned by New York’s highest court in 2024 due to improper admission of testimony from uncharged accusers, which would have prejudiced the jury.
So, Weinstein had a 2025 retrial, in which prosecutors charged him with crimes against three women: the jury convicted him of one criminal sexual act count (involving Mimi Haley), acquitted him on another (involving Kaja Sokola), but was deadlocked on the Jessica Mann rape charge — leading to a mistrial.
And, believe it or not, now, in his 2026 retrial, a mistrial has been declared again.
Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s third NYC sex crimes trial https://t.co/IQX5omnAwn pic.twitter.com/pUJaPgHu8A
— New York Post (@nypost) May 15, 2026
Associated Press reported:
“Harvey Weinstein ’s rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked in the closely watched #MeToo-era case that another jury failed to decide last year.
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 after three trials.
A majority-male Manhattan jury had been weighing whether Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor. Weinstein’s 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.”
JUST IN: Harvey Weinstein’s third New York rape trial ends in mistrial https://t.co/NxdlZvYjGM pic.twitter.com/waWufPWevt
— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) May 15, 2026
On the third day of deliberations, jurors sent the Judge a note saying they ‘have concluded that they cannot reach’ a unanimous verdict.
Judge Curtis Farber instructed the group to continue deliberating, but to no avail.
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