Jessica Mann told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday that Harvey Weinstein raped her at a Midtown hotel on March 18, 2013, pinning both of her wrists above her head as she tried to get away and saying “No” over and over.
Mann said Weinstein attacked her at the Doubletree Hotel after she met him in Los Angeles at age 27 while trying to launch her acting career. She also testified that he later raped her again in 2013 and that she passed out during the assault because he was so heavy.
The testimony came in Weinstein’s latest New York City trial, where he is facing a third Manhattan sex-crimes prosecution after his 2020 conviction was overturned by the state’s highest court and a later trial ended with a hung jury. Jurors have now heard Mann describe not only the alleged assaults but also the relationship that grew around them, which she said became consensual at one point because she believed it could lead to a loving relationship.
Mann said Weinstein told her he was in an open relationship with Georgina Chapman, and she said she was uneasy about his ties to powerful people such as former President Bill Clinton. She recalled that Weinstein would talk about how powerful he was and how his friends and enemies fared in New York, saying he “just always name-dropped everybody all the time.”
Her account also reached back to February 2013, when she said Weinstein tried to direct her into a threesome with Emanuela Postacchini at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel. Mann said she ran into a bathroom and broke down in tears after that encounter. Asked later about Weinstein’s behavior, she said, “He just treated me like he owned me,” and described one moment as a “full-on breakdown.”
The testimony matters because Mann was one of the women whose allegations led to Weinstein’s original 2020 conviction, including charges that he raped her and forced oral sex on former Project Runaway production assistant Mimi Haley. With that verdict undone and the case returned to court, Tuesday’s testimony placed the jury inside the sequence of alleged encounters that prosecutors say show a pattern, and it left little ambiguity about what Mann says happened next: she says Weinstein assaulted her again, and she says she was not dealing with a normal man but one whose power she feared and whose influence she believed could swallow her career.
That is the point of this trial for the prosecution and for Mann alike. The question is no longer whether she stayed in contact with Weinstein after the first encounter; she testified that she did. The question is whether jurors believe that contact was consent or coercion, and Mann’s answer on the stand was plain: she said she was drawn in by promises, intimidated by his reach and then raped.