Mistrial declared in Harvey Weinstein NYC Jessica Mann rape trial

Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News on May 15, 2026

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NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge declared a mistrial Friday after a jury said it was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Harvey Weinstein was guilty of raping Jessica Mann, a year after his last case also ended in a mistrial.

The seven men and five women on the jury, who began deliberating Wednesday, had initially sent out a note at 11:20 a.m., reading, “We the jury request to let the judge know that the members of the jury have concluded that we cannot reach an unanimous decision.”

In response, Justice Curtis Farber read the panel an Allen charge, directing them to keep at it and noting “it wasn’t meant to be easy.”

“When this trial began, many prospective jurors were called and questioned,” the judge said. “You, ladies and gentlemen, were selected to serve. That means of all the prospective jurors called in this case, you were the ones in whom both sides expressed confidence.”

About 1 pm, the jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked and Farber declared the mistrial. Farber said it was clear from the jurors’ notes “they are hopelessly deadlocked” and that instructing them to keep going would be coercive.

The panel has been deliberating for two days on a charge of third-degree rape. Mann, in five days of emotional testimony, recounted her claim that the Miramax founder raped her at the DoubleTree Hotel on March 18, 2013.

Mann helped secure his first conviction in 2020 that was later overturned in a split decision by New York’s highest court. A second trial ended in a mistrial.

Weinstein’s toppling in late 2017 amid an outpouring of sex crimes allegations catalyzed the global awareness campaign against sexual abuse and workplace sexual harassment, though the jury didn’t hear anything about it or from any victim but Mann.

Regardless of the outcome of the Mann case, Weinstein, 74, faces prison time for the guilty verdict reached at his 2025 trial for sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” assistant Miriam Haley, which could result in a term of up to 25 years.

Weinstein is expected to land back in California before seeing a New York prison cell. He is less than halfway into a 16-year sentence following his separate 2022 conviction in Los Angeles for raping and sexually assaulting Italian model and actor Evgeniya Chernyshova.

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