Judge Declares Mistrial in Weinstein Rape Case

Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial in New York ended in a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked. While the former Hollywood mogul has been convicted of other sex crimes on two US coasts and remains behind bars, the mistrial leaves the New York rape charge in limbo after three trials, per the AP. 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.

An appeals court overturned his 2020 New York conviction on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jury deliberations broke down amid infighting on Mann's portion of the case, leading to this current retrial. Weinstein is charged with one count of rape in the third degree. Mann, 40, has testified that she willingly had some sexual interludes with the then-married producer, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex that day after she repeatedly said no. Weinstein, 74, has said he "acted wrongly" but never assaulted anyone.