Overview
- Manhattan’s retrial admitted a March 20, 2013 note from Jessica Mann’s phone into evidence for the first time before a jury.
- The defense highlighted lines such as “I want this person to love me” and argued the note conflicts with a claim of violent coercion two days earlier.
- Earlier this week, Mann testified that Weinstein raped her in a Midtown hotel in March 2013, saying he pinned her wrists while she said no.
- Prosecutors told the court that actress Emanuela Postacchini and Mann’s friend Talita Maia are currently unreachable as potential witnesses.
- The case was reopened after Weinstein’s 2020 New York conviction was overturned in 2024, and he now faces a third‑degree rape charge tied to 2013 while pleading not guilty.