Harvey Weinstein’s third New York rape trial ends in mistrial

Harvey Weinstein’s third trial in ⁠New York over allegations he used his Hollywood clout to prey upon and sexually abuse women ended in a mistrial on Friday (May 15, 2026) after a jury failed to ‌reach a unanimous verdict on a charge that he raped the aspiring actress Jessica Mann.

Weinstein (74) is expected to remain behind ‌bars due to his convictions in other cases.

Weinstein was a top ‌film ⁠producer until sexual misconduct allegations led to his downfall and fuelled ⁠a wider social movement that encouraged women to come forward with accounts of sexual abuse by powerful men.

His most recent trial centred on allegations brought by the Manhattan district attorney’s ​office that Weinstein raped Mann in ‌a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 while Mann resisted and repeatedly said “No.”

Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree rape and has denied assaulting anyone or having non-consensual sex. His lawyers have argued ‌that Mann fabricated the rape allegation after regretting that her consensual ​romance with Weinstein failed to advance her film career.

At his first trial in New York in 2020, Weinstein was convicted ⁠of raping Mann and assaulting onetime production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006. But the state’s highest court overturned the conviction and Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence after ‌concluding he did not get a fair trial.

A Manhattan jury then convicted Weinstein of sexually abusing Haley at a trial in June 2025, but found him not guilty of assaulting former model Kaja Sokola.

The jury deadlocked on the third-degree rape charge accusing Weinstein of assaulting Mann, leading Justice Curtis Farber to declare a mistrial on that count.

The retrial began in ‌April.

During their third day of deliberations on Friday (May 15, 2026), jurors sent Farber a note saying ​they were deadlocked. The judge urged them to keep trying to reach a verdict.

Farber said outside the presence of the ⁠jury that it was clear they were “hopelessly deadlocked” and that there was no reason ⁠to keep them any longer.

Weinstein was also convicted of rape in California in 2022 and is serving a 16-year prison sentence. ‌He is appealing that conviction and sentence.

The Miramax studio co-founder will face up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced for ​abusing Haley.