The film mogul, who is accused of raping actress Jessica Mann, is being retried after a mistrial was declared last June
2-MIN READ2-MINAgence France-PressePublished: 4:34am, 15 Apr 2026The retrial of disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein on a rape charge on which a jury was previously deadlocked started on Tuesday, although he will remain imprisoned for other offences regardless of the verdict.
Weinstein is accused of the third-degree rape of Jessica Mann, who starred in the 2015 romantic comedy This Isn’t Funny.
The judge declared a mistrial last June after the jury foreman refused to return to deliberate the case amid a jury-room feud.
Weinstein is being retried on that count in the Manhattan court, and the process of jury selection began on Tuesday after a number of rulings by Judge Curtis Farber, who said the defence had sought to delay the trial.
Jury selection to pick 12 jurors could last several days.
Weinstein’s spokesman Juda Engelmayer said before Tuesday’s hearing: “He is hopeful and expects a fair process where the facts will vindicate him.”
