A deathly pale Harvey Weinstein on Thursday was rolled into Manhattan court — where fruitless talks unfolded about a plea deal that would let him avoid a third sex crimes trial.

The 73-year-old disgraced Hollywood producer was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair for a hearing on whether he will face trial for a third time on charges of raping an aspiring actress inside a Midtown hotel.

Judge Curtis Farber set a March 3 trial date, unless Weinstein agrees to plead guilty before then.

“I understand that your client wants additional time to think about it,” Farber told Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala, who had met with prosecutors in a back room to talk about a possible deal for around 20 minutes.

Farber had suggested that Aidala huddle with Manhattan prosecutors after the attorney griped about the decrepit Weinstein, who has various serious health ailments, languishing behind bars at notorious Rikers Island.

“He’s in the worst place you can basically be,” Aidala told the court. “I need to get him out of there as soon as possible.”

At a third trial, Jessica Mann would be set to testify again about the once-powerful studio boss allegedly raping her in 2013 at the DoubleTree hotel.

The ex-Miramax mogul is open to plea talks, Aidala claimed to the court Thursday.

But Weinstein sounded far from ready to accept responsibility for any sex crimes while delivering an impromptu speech at the end of the hearing.

“I admit my moral failings — I was unfaithful and acted wrongly — but I have never assaulted anyone,” Weinstein claimed from his seat at the defense table, where he wore a wrinkled dark blue suit and gray tie.

The convicted sex pest added that he has “taken and passed lie detector tests” about his alleged conduct with Mann — a claim likely to fall on deaf ears given that New York courts barred such speculative evidence in 1938.

Mann sobbed on the stand at the June retrial while describing Weinstein as turning into a “monster” after she told him that she did not want to have sex.

“The monster side would come out,” she testified.

Weinstein was convicted of raping Mann at his first trial, in 2020, and of forcing oral sex on former Project Runway production assistant Mimi Haley.

But the verdict was overturned in a bombshell ruling from New York’s highest appeals court.

At the retrial, Weinstein was convicted again on the Haley charge – which carries a sentence of up to 25 years in prison  – but the jury could not agree on the Mann rap.

Several wild accusations emerged during heated deliberations in the case, including one juror’s claim that another had threatened to fight him, and another juror’s claim to have heard two fellow panelists baselessly speculating that a third juror had been “bribed” by Weinstein.

The jailed former movie bigwig made a long-shot bid for a retrial based on alleged juror misconduct, but Farber swiped it down Thursday.

The chaotic deliberations did not include any “improper outside influence,” the judge ruled.

“I am disappointed in today’s decision,” Weinstein told Farber, claiming to the judge that “you witnessed the trial and saw that forces beyond my control have deprived me of my basic right to be judged fairly.”

But Farber shot back: “You had a fair trial.”

“Whatever took place in the jury room was in the normal course of deliberations,” the judge said.

A plea deal would speed up Weinstein’s sentencing date and eventual transfer to either a prison in upstate New York or in California, where he was separately convicted of rape and sentenced to 16 years behind bars. 

His camp believes that both prisons would have better conditions than troubled Rikers Island.