Overview
- The third New York trial, which opened Tuesday with opening statements, has a jury of seven men and five women and is expected to run about a month.
- Prosecutors say Weinstein used power, control and manipulation to exploit Jessica Mann and offered a film role to draw her in, and they place the alleged rape in 2013 at a Midtown hotel.
- Weinstein pleads not guilty as his lawyers argue the sex was consensual, citing years of contact and affectionate emails that continued until 2017 after other accusations surfaced.
- The charge is for rape in the third degree under New York law, which focuses on lack of consent rather than severe physical force.
- This retrial comes after a 2020 New York conviction was thrown out in 2024 and a 2025 jury split that deadlocked on Mann’s count, and he remains imprisoned on a separate 16-year California case now on appeal.