Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault retrial in Manhattan finished their first day of deliberations Thursday, as they mull whether the disgraced Hollywood heavyweight leveraged his power to sexually assault three women.
Weinstein, 73, is on trial in Manhattan Supreme Court for criminal sex act and rape, after his landmark 2020 #MeToo conviction was overturned last year.
Jurors heard the stories of three accusers over the course of the eight-week trial — former TV production assistant Miriam Haley, Polish model and aspiring actress Kaja Sokola, and one-time actress Jessica Mann.
Mann and Haley testified at Weinstein’s 2020 trial, which ended in a 23-year prison sentence before the state’s highest court ruled that Judge James Burke should have never allowed the testimony of