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Harvey Weinstein leaves court with chest pain as jury deliberates rape retrial

The Independent·Jennifer Peltz·19 days ago
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As the jury began deliberating his rape retrial, Harvey Weinstein reported feeling chest pains, his lawyers said. The 74-year-old disgraced movie mogul has an array of health problems and uses a wheelchair. Weinstein has been in prison since 2020. Jurors started deliberating on Wednesday and are deciding whether he raped Jessica Mann, a hairstylist and actor, in a Manhattan hotel on March 18, 2013. Weinstein reported feeling chest pains as court was ending early for the day after the jury awaited an answer to revisit some evidence. Jurors had been deliberating for under four hours when they sent a note requesting to re-hear one page of accuser Mann's testimony and get a copy of a lengthy PowerPoint file that prosecutors had created to put emails and other evidence in a timeline. Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo said court officers had told him Weinstein was having chest pains. No further information was immediately available.…

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