Harvey Weinstein case judge denies mistrial bid after juror says he's bullied in deliberations

Julian Roberts-Grmela and Leonard Greene, New York Daily News on Jun 6, 2025

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NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge in Harvey Weinstein’s rape and sexual assault retrial denied his motion for a mistrial Friday after a juror said he was being bullied and berated by other members of the panel.

Jurors ended the day without a verdict and are scheduled back in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday morning.

Weinstein’s lawyers said the treatment of the juror was enough to shut down the six-week trial, but the judge urged the members to keep on deliberating.

Just before a lunch break on the second day of deliberations, a 25-year old juror asked Judge Curtis Farber if he could be dismissed from the highly watched trial because he believed the process was not “fair and just.”

The juror told Farber that he was being shunned for having opposing views from other members of the jury.

The juror also said he heard other jurors discussing the case on the elevator and outside the courthouse. He described the tension with jurors as “playground stuff.”

“Is someone being bullied? Is someone being made fun of? Is someone being threatened?” Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala said in court. “There is some degree of taint going on.”

Aidala praised the juror for having the “courage” to come forward.

But Farber said that the discussions the juror described did not rise to the level of misconduct, but were typical, heated deliberations by a jury.

“It may be that his youth makes him particularly uncomfortable,” Farber said.

The fallen movie mogul and Miramax studio co-founder is accused of raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013 and assaulting two other women in 2002 and 2006.

More than 80 women, including actresses Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd, have accused Weinstein of sexual assault, harassment or other misconduct.

He faces up to 25 years in prison for two counts of criminal sexual acts and up to four years for one count of rape.

A Manhattan jury convicted Weinstein, 73, of rape and sexual assault charges in 2020 at the height of the #MeToo movement. But a state appeals court threw out the conviction in 2024, citing errors by the trial judge.

Weinstein is already serving a 16-year prison sentence after a California jury found him guilty of rape in December 2022.

Weinstein has denied all the charges against him. He has said any sexual encounters have been consensual.

“I have regrets that I put my family through this, that I put my wife through this, and I acted immorally,” Weinstein said in a telephone interview with FOX 5’s “Good Day New York” on Friday. “I put so many friends through this and hurt people that were close to me by actions that were stupid, you know what I mean? But never illegal, never criminal, never anything.”

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