A US judge on Friday declared a mistrial in the new trial of disgraced cinema mogul Harvey Weinstein after a jury once again failed to reach a verdict on

Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to one count of third-degree rape, insisting through his lawyers that the sexual encounter was consensual.

The jury in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial in New York could not reach a verdict after three days of deliberations.

Harvey Weinstein’s latest rape retrial in New York ended in a mistrial Friday

The seven men and five women on the jury began deliberating Wednesday