Overview
- Prosecutors formally dropped the Manhattan rape charge after the accuser, Jessica Mann, said in a written letter that she could not endure further testimony.
- Mann and prosecutors cited recent health and trauma-related strain, including a reported concussion and episodes of dissociation, as reasons she would not proceed.
- The dropped charge closes the prospect of a fourth New York trial on that allegation after a long legal history that included a vacated conviction and two hung juries on the same count.
- Manhattan prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said the office believes Mann and praised her courage, while Weinstein and his attorney Jacob Kaplan continue to deny the allegation and say the case should not have been brought.
- Weinstein remains incarcerated and legally exposed: he faces a New York sentencing tied to another conviction and a separate California sentence that is under appellate review.