{"id":17914,"date":"2026-06-25T22:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17914"},"modified":"2026-06-25T22:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:32:41","slug":"what-to-know-about-harvey-weinsteins-cases-after-a-rape-charge-was-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17914","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Harvey Weinstein\u2019s cases after a rape charge was dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>By JENNIFER PELTZ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York prosecutors have dropped a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein instead of trying it a fourth time. His accuser supported Thursday\u2019s decision, which puts an end to one piece of a landmark #MeToo-era prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17912\">Leaders and celebrities react after powerful quakes hit Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t clear the former Hollywood honcho\u2019s criminal record. The 74-year-old has been convicted of other sex crimes in two states and is still behind bars while he appeals those verdicts.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to know about the case:<\/p>\n<h4>Charge dropped when accuser said she couldn\u2019t endure another trial<\/h4>\n<p>Jessica Mann, the hairstylist and actor who accused Weinstein of raping her in a New York hotel room in 2013, told the court in a letter that she \u201ccould no longer endure going through this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She had given extensive, emotional testimony at three trials. One produced a conviction that later got overturned for reasons unrelated to her testimony. Then two retrials ended in hung juries.<\/p>\n<p>Mann, 40, said in her letter that she \u201cgave my all\u201d in the case, it \u201cput me through more harm than good\u201d and she wanted to close this chapter of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said they believed Mann and were confident in the case, but they would drop it because of her wishes and Weinstein\u2019s other convictions.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Weinstein\u2019s lawyers said the charge should never have been brought in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He denies the allegation, and his lawyers said the encounter was part of a consensual, yearslong relationship. Mann testified that in the early months of that relationship, Weinstein raped her after cornering her in a Manhattan hotel room, grabbing her arms and ignoring her repeated pleas not to have sex.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17901\">Los Alamitos consensus picks for Friday, June 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Dismissal doesn\u2019t affect Weinstein\u2019s convictions<\/h4>\n<p>Mann\u2019s allegation was one of a number of criminal charges that evolved from a 2017 deluge of sexual misconduct allegations against Weinstein, an Oscar-winning producer who had huge sway in Hollywood. The accusations propelled the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein was convicted of some charges and acquitted of others at trials in New York and California. The dismissal of the Mann-related case doesn\u2019t affect his convictions, which involved other women.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Weinstein is facing sentencing in other case<\/h4>\n<p>Weinstein, who has said he \u201cnever assaulted anyone,\u201d is challenging his convictions. He was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting an Italian actor-model in Los Angeles and sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a production assistant and producer, in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted, unless they choose to make their names public, as Mann and Haley have done.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein, 74, is facing sentencing in September on the conviction tied to Haley \u2014 a verdict reached in at a 2025 retrial after an appeals court reversed an earlier conviction. Haley testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her after inviting her to stop by his Manhattan apartment before a flight in July 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year sentence for that conviction. Weinstein\u2019s lawyers say they haven\u2019t yet decided what sentence they will seek.<\/p>\n<p>After whatever punishment Weinstein gets in New York, he faces a 16-year sentence in California.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17900\">Ducks sign Ian Moore to a 2-year contract extension<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York prosecutors dropped a rape charge against Harvey Weinstein after his accuser chose not to endure a fourth trial on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What to know about Harvey Weinstein\u2019s cases after a rape charge was dropped - 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