NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� started feeling chest pains in a courthouse Wednesday as jurors deliberated in the former movie mogul鈥檚 closely watched , his lawyers said, prompting the judge to end the first day of deliberations early.
Weinstein, 74, has myriad health problems, including cancer and a history of heart trouble, and he uses a wheelchair. He has been behind bars since 2020 and told a court in January that his 鈥渉ealth is deteriorating鈥� in New York’s infamously troubled jail.
The ex-producer wasn鈥檛 in the courtroom, but rather was waiting elsewhere in the courthouse, when defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said around 3 p.m. that court officers had told him that Weinstein was having chest pains.
Jurors had deliberated for less than four hours, and they had just sent a note asking to rehear part of accuser 鈥檚 testimony 鈥� a brief portion in which she said she was 鈥渟pacing out鈥� during cross-examination 鈥� and to review a lengthy prosecution timeline of emails and other evidence.
Judge Curtis Farber told jurors only that there were 鈥渦nforeseen reasons鈥� for sending them home a bit earlier than planned. Prosecutors and Weinstein鈥檚 lawyers had left the courtroom so jurors would be less likely to speculate about Weinstein鈥檚 absence.
鈥淗e wants to be here, but he鈥檚 having chest pains,鈥� Agnifilo told the judge before ducking out of the courtroom.
Jurors are due to get the requested information and resume deliberations Thursday.
Weinstein has had health problems at court before. When he was sent to jail for the first time to be checked out at a hospital for heart palpitations and high blood pressure. In 2024, he was rushed from Rikers to a hospital and to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.
Mann, 40, that she and Weinstein had a consensual relationship, but that he subjected her to unwanted sex in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013 after she repeatedly said no. Lawyers for Weinstein have maintained that the encounter was consensual, and they have emphasized that Mann continued toward him. Mann has said she was mired in complicated feelings about him, herself and what had happened and that she was 鈥渘ormalizing everything.鈥�
Her viewpoint changed in 2017, when a against the Oscar-winning Weinstein propelled the #MeToo campaign to hold people 鈥� especially powerful men 鈥� accountable for sexual misbehavior. Weinstein he 鈥渁cted wrongly鈥� but never assaulted anyone.
Some of those accusations later generated criminal convictions against Weinstein in New York and .
An appeals court his on charges that involved Mann and another accuser. At a retrial last year, jurors on Mann’s portion of the case, leading to a . He is charged with one count of rape in the third degree.
The current jury heard nearly three weeks of testimony, of it from Mann. Weinstein decided not to testify.
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted. Mann, however, has agreed to be named.
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An earlier version of this story erroneously suggested that Weinstein left the courtroom after experiencing chest pains. Weinstein was not in court at the time.
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