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Harvey Weinstein isn’t a saint.
After all, he was a big-time Hollywood kingmaker, aren’t they all scumbags? As you likely know, Harvey’s rein of sexy terror ended during the #MeToo explosion. Things got so bad for him, even his defenders had a hard time making him sound human. And that’s exactly why people have been following these cases against him. The evil Hollywood devil, facing down his tortured casting couch victims, surely this would be a slam dunk, right?
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After all, when one man is already so hated, totally ruined, and has been turned into the public face of #MeToo in Hollywood, the pressure to convict him on everything becomes enormous.
But for some odd reason, that’s not happening.
Once again, in a retrial against Weinstein, prosecutors were unable to score a win. Yet another charge against the former Hollywood bigwig has ended in a mistrial, this time over Jessica Mann’s rape allegation. And according to one female juror, the split was rather interesting… all the women voted not guilty, and three men voted guilty.
That interesting split reveals a lot. The women on the jury heard the testimony and didn’t buy the rape charge. Three men did… so after years of nonstop “believe all women” lectures, the women in the room were apparently the ones saying, “not good enough.”
It’s also interesting that when many of these #MeToo rape and assault claims are actually put in front of a jury, things get really fuzzy.
A majority-male jury spent three days deliberating the rape charge against Weinstein. Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and aspiring actor, said the rape happened at a Manhattan DoubleTree hotel in 2013. Weinstein’s defense argued that the sexual encounter between Mann and the then-married Weinstein was consensual.
Weinstein was initially convicted of assaulting Mann in 2020, but that verdict, along with another charge, was overturned in April 2024. In a second New York trial last summer, Weinstein was convicted of forcing oral sex on Miriam Haley and acquitted of the same regarding former model Kaja Sokola. The jury was hung on a third charge of raping Mann.
On Friday, a few hours into the third day of deliberations, jurors sent Judge Curtis Farber a note saying they “have concluded that they cannot reach” a unanimous verdict. Judge Farber instructed the group to continue deliberating. Jurors returned to their closed-door discussions and emerged more than an hour later with another note, reading, “We feel that no one is going to change where they stand.”
This isn’t the clean “believe all women” story America was force-fed for years.
Sure, Weinstein has been convicted on some charges. We’re not trying to pretend he’s innocent or that Hollywood isn’t crawling with snakes. But the actual courtroom record is much more complicated than the public story we’ve been told.
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As of right now, Harvey Weinstein stands convicted in two jurisdictions:
California: convicted in 2022 on rape and sexual assault-related charges. That conviction still stands and carries a 16-year sentence.
New York: after the original 2020 conviction was overturned, he was retried and convicted on the Miriam Haley criminal sexual act charge. He was acquitted on the Kaja Sokola charge and a hung jury on Jessica Mann.
New York: in 2026, a jury was once again hung on Jessica Mann trial.
Criminal trials aren’t supposed to decide whether someone seems piggish enough to punish. They’re supposed to prove specific allegations beyond a reasonable doubt, and that seems to be a problem for the prosecution.
One juror flat-out said prosecutors failed to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, and every woman on the panel voted to acquit.
Another juror told me she did not believe prosecutors proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt. According to the juror, all the women on the panel voted not guilty, while three men voted guilty in the Harvey Weinstein retrial. pic.twitter.com/CzV8con9ru
— Lauren Conlin (@conlin_lauren) May 15, 2026
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So, women on the jury heard the testimony, watched the witnesses, looked at the evidence, and weren’t convinced. Meanwhile, three men voted guilty. Maybe those guys believed the prosecution. Maybe they felt the cultural weight of the case and voted “guilty” to avoid getting doxxed and canceled.
Whatever the case may be, the split says a lot.
Because we were all told that any skepticism about high-profile sexual misconduct claims was immoral. But when in court, #MeToo feelings won’t always carry the case. Hopefully, the evidence does… and in the Mann charge, the evidence clearly wasn’t enough to move the women on the jury.
Women and the media turned Weinstein into the ultimate monster. Maybe he earned a lot of that. But the courtroom record shows something a lot more layered and complicated. A couple of allegations were proven, several weren’t, and some keep failing, over and over, to produce a unanimous verdict.
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Sometimes trials reveal that the story was never as simple and easy as the #MeToo mob wanted it to be.
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