New York prosecutors on Thursday dropped a cost of third-degree rape towards Harvey Weinstein, after two juries had been unable to succeed in a verdict on the allegation.
In a press release, the D.A.’s workplace stated that the accuser, Jessica Mann, didn’t want to testify at a fourth trial of the disgraced mogul.
“To be clear, we believe Ms. Mann’s account and her credibility as a witness,” Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg stated in a press release. “This has been an extraordinarily taxing ordeal for her, and she has never wavered while testifying in front of two grand juries and three trial juries over the course of eight years. We thank her for her honesty and her tremendous bravery.”
Weinstein was convicted final yr on a separate cost of sexual assault towards Miriam Haley, a former “Project Runway” manufacturing assistant. Prosecutors stated Thursday that they’ll ask Decide Curtis Farber to condemn him to twenty years in jail on that cost.
Weinstein was initially convicted of assaulting each Mann and Haley in 2020, however that verdict was overturned on a 4-3 vote by the state’s highest court docket in 2024. On the June 2025 retrial, Weinstein was convicted once more of assaulting Haley, however the jurors couldn’t attain a verdict on Mann’s allegation that he had raped her at a Manhattan lodge in 2013.
Prosecutors tried once more in Might, however the jury once more couldn’t attain a unanimous verdict, leading to a mistrial. Weinstein’s protection relied on a sequence of pleasant textual content and e-mail exchanges between Mann and Weinstein, arguing that they had been concerned in a consensual relationship.
“Harvey is relieved by today’s outcome,” stated his spokesman, Juda Engelmayer. “We believe this is the result that should have been reached from the outset, had the grand jury been presented with the full scope of the emails, text messages and other private communications.”
Weinstein, 74, was initially sentenced in 2020 to 23 years in jail for the assaults on Haley and Mann, and has been in custody ever since. His legal professionals will ask Farber to impose a decrease sentence, arguing that he has been a mannequin inmate.
Weinstein can also be serving a 16-year sentence on a separate rape conviction in Los Angeles.
