Harvey Weinstein’s Rape Retrial Ends in Mistrial After Jury Deadlocks | E! News

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]After being tried for a third time on charges of rape, Harvey Weinstein's latest [music] legal case once again ended in a mistrial May 15th after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision. This according to multiple reports. [music] Weinstein is accused of allegedly raping actress and hair stylist Jessica Mann in a New York City hotel room in 2013. [music] His lawyers claim the encounter was consensual, something Jessica denies saying she resisted [music] and repeatedly told Weinstein no during the incident. Jessica first told her story to a jury in 2020 [music] when Weinstein pleaded not guilty. He was later found guilty of third-degree rape and one count of criminal sexual act in the first degree [music] receiving a 23-year prison sentence. That conviction was overturned however four years later [music] after New York's highest court determined improper testimony had been allowed at trial. The case was retried in 2025 [music] but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the third-degree rape charge related to Jessica's [music] accusations. Per NBC News, the jury foreperson told the judge he was unwilling to return to deliberations [music] amid reported tensions. The jury did find Weinstein guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree related to the 2006 alleged assault of former production assistant Miriam Haley while finding him not guilty of the same charge related [music] to his alleged assault of Kaya Sokola. Although the retrial didn't resume until spring 2026, Weinstein remained [music] behind bars after being sentenced to 16 years in prison in a separate California case in 2022 for rape, [music] forced oral copulation, and third-degree sexual misconduct. Since the beginning of the Me Too movement in 2017, [music] Harvey, who was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer in 2024, has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 80 women. He has continued to maintain the encounters [music] were consensual and denied any wrongdoing. E! News has reached out to attorneys for Weinstein for comment but has not heard [music] back.