Harvey Weinstein took a turn for the worse Wednesday, complaining of chest pains as a Manhattan jury began deliberating whether he was guilty of raping actress Jessica Mann at a Midtown hotel.
“I’m advised he’s having chest pains and not feeling well,” Justice Curtis Farber told spectators shortly after 3 p.m., about four hours after the panel began its deliberations.
Weinstein, 74, has experienced an array of health setbacks in recent years. There was no indication he required hospitalization based on what was said in court, and Farber had already planned on sending jurors home early prior to being notified that Weinstein was feeling poorly.
After Farber instructed them on the law, the seven men and five women on the jury got the case at 11:07 a.m., set to weigh whether the multi-convicted Miramax founder is guilty of raping Mann, 40, on March 18, 2013.
Jurors sent out their first note at 2:50 p.m., seeking the prosecution’s 180-page PowerPoint presentation, which includes a timeline of Mann and Weinstein’s relationship and the alleged assaults, and one page of Mann’s cross-examination.
The actor and hair stylist, who met Weinstein in her twenties while trying to make it as an actor in Hollywood, spent five days on the stand, frequently becoming distraught while divulging deeply personal details about her life and four-year relationship with Weinstein.
Weinstein’s first conviction in 2020 for raping Mann and sexually assaulting another woman, Miriam Haley, was overturned by the Court of Appeals in 2024 for reasons unrelated to either woman’s testimony.
Prosecutors retried the case last year, with a second Manhattan jury finding him guilty of the attack on Haley but failing to reach a unanimous conclusion on Mann, leading to a second retrial.
No matter the verdict, the disgraced “Pulp Fiction” producer won’t be getting out of prison anytime soon. He was convicted of rape and sexual assault in a separate California case in 2022 and sentenced to 16 years, and he faces up to 25 years when Farber sentences him for sexually assaulting Haley.
Weinstein has cancer and underwent major heart surgery in 2024. His health woes became apparent during his 2020 trial when he turned up to the first day of jury selection with a walker. Upon being found guilty and having his bail revoked that February, he was taken to Bellevue complaining of high blood pressure, chest pains and palpitations.
He told Farber in January 2025 that it was a “mystery” he was still alive on Rikers, urging the judge to bump up a previous trial so he could “get out of this hellhole as quickly as possible.”
Deliberations are set to resume Thursday.