Harvey Weinstein won’t face trial for a fourth time on a charge of allegedly raping actress Jessica Mann in 2013 — after the accuser opted not to go through the grueling process of testifying again.
“It was clear to me at this last trial, I can no longer go through this,” Mann, 40, said in a letter read aloud during a hearing in Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday morning.
“It has put me through more harm than good,” she added of her experience on the witness stand.
Harvey Weinstein seen in court today on June 25, 2026. Steven Hirsch for NY PostJudge Curtis Farber formally dismissed the third-degree rape charge at the request of prosecutors, who decided not to retry the disgraced 74-year-old ex-Miramax boss yet again after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Mann’s allegations for the second time at a trial this May.
“To be clear, we believe Ms. Mann’s account and her credibility as a witness,” Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
“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 — who is being held without bail on Rikers Island — still faces up to 25 years in prison when he’s sentenced on Sept. 23 after a jury found him guilty of a first-degree criminal sex act for allegedly assaulting Miriam “Mimi” Haley, a former TV production assistant.
At Weinstein’s first trial — in 2020 at the height of the #MeToo movement — a jury convicted Weinstein of third-degree rape for the alleged assault on Mann inside Midtown’s DoubleTree hotel on March 18, 2013.
That conviction was overturned by New York’s highest appeals court, which ordered a new trial.
Jessica Mann entering court. Steven Hirsch for NY PostA separate jury then deadlocked on Mann’s allegations at Weinstein’s second trial in 2025, before a third jury failed to reach consensus on the charge at the third trial this year.
Mann testified all three times that she had a consensual, on-and-off relationship with a then-married Weinstein, but that the powerful “Pulp Fiction” producer allegedly forced her into having sex after cornering her in the hotel room that day.
Mann was pressed repeatedly during a brutal, multi-day cross-examination about the relationship at the most recent trial — with Weinstein’s attorneys bringing up a so-called love note written by Mann just two days after the alleged New York City attack.
“Do I love him or the idea of him? With him — easy. The idea of expanding that — fulfilling,” Mann mused in the note.
Bragg’s office is pushing for Weinstein to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, while the former Hollywood bigwig’s lawyers are expected to ask for far less time behind bars.
“Harvey Weinstein’s been in jail a long time. He’s ill, he’s not getting any younger, and we feel very strongly that he’s paid his debt to society,” Weinstein’s attorney Marc Agnifilo told reporters Thursday.






