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The conviction, on a charge of first-degree criminal sexual act, was handed down in a mixed verdict that acquitted Harvey Weinstein of a second count of the same crime.
June 11, 2025Updated 7:35 p.m. ET
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced former Hollywood mogul whose downfall spurred a global reckoning over sexual abuse and harassment of women, was found guilty in Manhattan on Wednesday of a felony sex crime for the second time in a little more than five years.
But a jury of 12 New Yorkers acquitted Mr. Weinstein on another of the charges against him, and reached no decision on a third. The panel was instructed to return on Thursday to continue deliberating on the final charge, third-degree rape.
The conviction, on a single count of criminal sexual act, was handed down despite bets by Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers that the #MeToo movement had waned enough to cast doubt on the motives and credibility of his accusers — three women who were seeking work in the film and television industry.
Mr. Weinstein had previously been convicted of sex crimes in Manhattan in 2020, but the conviction was overturned. In the retrial, he was accused by the Manhattan district attorney’s office of assaulting the women — Miriam Haley, Kaja Sokola and Jessica Mann — between 2006 and 2013. He was convicted in the attack on Ms. Haley and acquitted in the incident involving Ms. Sokola.
The partial verdict was delivered on the fifth day of deliberations, around 1:50 p.m., by a jury of seven women and five men in the courtroom of Justice Curtis Farber on the 13th floor of the Manhattan criminal courthouse.
As the foreman announced the decision, a room of observers listened intently. Mr. Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur L. Aidala, had vigorously objected to the reading of a partial verdict.
