Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Supreme Court during his retrial in New York City on May 15. Pool photo by Timothy A. Clary/UPI | License Photo
June 25 (UPI) -- New York prosecutors will not retry disgraced film producer and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein on an unresolved rape charge related to actress Jessica Mann.
Prosecutors dropped the charges Thursday, more than six years after Mann, 40, first testified that Weinstein, 74, raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013. Weinstein's initial conviction for the charge was overturned in 2024, followed by two mistrials.
The D.A.'s office said Mann did not wish to go through a fourth trial.
"To be clear, we believe Ms. Mann's account and her credibility as a witness," Manhattan D.A. 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."
