For the Third Time, a Former Actress Testifies Against Harvey Weinstein

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For the Third Time, a Former Actress Testifies Against Harvey Weinstein

Jessica Mann testified, for the third time in six years, about the day she says Mr. Weinstein raped her in a Midtown Manhattan hotel.

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Jessica Mann gave testimony in Manhattan Supreme Court for the third time.

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Kate Christobek

April 28, 2026,

3:37 p.m. ET

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One year after a woman testified in a packed courtroom against the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, she was back on the stand on Tuesday, telling a jury about the day she said he raped her in a Manhattan hotel room.

The witness, Jessica Mann, a former actress, walked in and out of the courtroom briskly, avoiding eye contact with Mr. Weinstein.

But as she delivered hours of emotional testimony, Mr. Weinstein watched her. He visibly reacted throughout her account: shaking his head, putting his head in his hands and talking to his lawyers.

Mr. Weinstein, 74, is facing Ms. Mann’s accusations for the third time after his conviction on a rape charge in 2020 was overturned. In a second trial, last June, the jury deadlocked on that count, and the judge ordered a new trial.

In her testimony in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Ms. Mann, 40, said that she was visiting New York in 2013 and had planned a morning meal with friends and the producer. He arrived early and got a hotel room over her objections, she said.

Nonetheless, she testified, she accompanied him to the room, where he injected his penis with medication that produced an erection and then

raped her

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