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 imagine Ms. Mann’s account and her credibility as a witness,” Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg stated in a press release. “This has been an awfully taxing ordeal for her, and he or she has by no means wavered whereas testifying in entrance of two grand juries and three trial juries over the course of eight years. We thank her for her honesty and her super bravery.”
Mann submitted a press release to the courtroom, saying that after the most recent trial it grew to become clear to her that she “may not endure going by way of this any longer.”
“In my struggle to see justice, it has almost stolen a decade of my life and put me by way of extra hurt than good,” she wrote. “Justice now has moved away from the courts, solely into the arms of God.”
Weinstein was convicted final yr on a separate cost of sexual assault towards Miriam Haley, a former “Undertaking Runway” manufacturing assistant. Prosecutors stated Thursday that they are going to 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 courtroom 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 resort 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 immediately’s consequence,” stated his spokesman, Juda Engelmayer. “We imagine that is the outcome that ought to have been reached from the outset, had the grand jury been offered with the complete scope of the emails, textual content messages and different non-public 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.
