Harvey Weinstein retrial jurors dish on dramatic deliberations, trash ‘sneaky’ foreman’s closed-door moves after surprise mistrial

Harvey Weinstein’s retrial jurors dished on the behind-the-scenes drama that led to their bombshell verdict — including allegations that one of them was “bought” by the convicted sex pest and that a “sneaky” foreman set a deadline for the deliberations.

Jurors on the 12-person panel who spoke to The Post denied Juror No. 1’s claims that he had been “threatened” by a fellow jury member — an accusation that ultimately led to the judge declaring a mistrial on one of the charges against Weinstein Thursday.

“Everything he did was sneaky,” Chantan Holmes-Clayborn, Juror No. 10, said outside Manhattan Supreme Court after the trial ended, expressing remorse about not being able to reach a verdict on the final count.

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Another panelist, Juror No. 7 — who had initially alerted the court about “playground” bullying happening behind the scenes last week — claimed to The Post that “there were accusations being thrown (by) the jurors that they were bought out by Weinstein.”

The juror did not specify which other jurors were accused and there was no indication that they mean the foreperson.

Justice Curtis Farber had asked the foreman Thursday morning if he was able to continue working with the rest of the panel to decide whether Weinstein, 73, was guilty of raping former actress Jessica Mann inside a Midtown hotel room in 2013.

“No, I’m sorry,” the juror said.

Weinstein, who has often been reserved to moderate expressions from his black wheelchair, clapped three times when Juror No. 1 refused to head back into deliberations — prompting Farber to declare the jury deadlocked.

“Sometimes jury deliberations become heated. I understand this particular deliberation was more heated than some others. That’s unfortunate,” Farber told the panelists.

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The jury — comprised of seven women and five men — did convict Weinstein Wednesday on first-degree criminal sex act, a charge that will likely send him to prison for the rest of his life. He was acquitted on a second count of the same charge.

The Post has reached out to the foreperson for comment.

The foreperson’s decision to refuse to keep weighing the lesser count of third-degree rape Thursday morning capped eight days of dysfunctional deliberations that seeped out of the jury room.

Juror No. 1 had told the judge that a fellow panelist verbally threatened him, saying, “I would meet you outside one day.”

But other jurors who spoke after the trial described the foreperson’s concerns as “overblown.”

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According to Holmes-Clayborn, the foreperson “lied” about being threatened and was “making up stories.”

She said that other panelists were willing to work through their differences and continue their work — but the foreperson apparently told them at some point that he would quit deliberations if it didn’t move fast enough.

“He just let us know that, ‘Listen by 2 p.m., y’all better vote. If y’all don’t, if y’all don’t deliberate, it’s over,” Clayborn claimed.

“So, we’re just disappointed,” she added. “You don’t tell a juror by 2 p.m. I want to get out of here so y’all better have a vote.”

Juror No. 12, who did not want to be named, also said that deliberations weren’t as bad as the foreperson reported.

Clayborn revealed that the panel was able to reach an immediate verdict to convict Weinstein of criminal sex act for assaulting Miriam “Mimi” Haley, a former TV production assistant, at his SoHo loft in 2006.

They also quickly decided to acquit Weinstein of the same charge on the accusations made by Polish model Kaja Sokola, whom Clayborn said “nobody believed.”

Sokola testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her at a Tribeca hotel in 2006, days shy of her 20th birthday.

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The circus-like ending to the dramatic trial did come with another act — when Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg said prosecutors will retry Weinstein for the third time on Mann’s accusation.

Weinstein’s attorney, Arthur Aidala, asked for the charge to be dismissed, but the judge set a hearing for July 2 to schedule a trial date.

Aidala, in a statement, denied the whispers reported by Juror No. 7 about someone on the panel being “bought.”

“Any claim that Mr. Weinstein did anything so grossly improper such as paying off a juror is patently false and is why we insisted on a thorough and immediate investigation by the Court,” he said. “This preposterous allegation is an example of why the Court MUST set aside this obviously tainted verdict.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg explained that his decision to retry the case for the third time was for “survivors” and Mann’s decision.

“Harvey Weinstein is going to be held accountable for his conduct as to Ms. Haley, and he’s facing a very significant term of imprisonment for that,” Bragg said at a press conference. “But the jury was not able to reach a conclusion as to Jessica Mann, and she deserved that.”

Mann said in a statement that she will go to bat for prosecutors and testify for a third time against Weinstein.

“I will never give up on myself and making sure my voice – and the truth – is heard. I have told the District Attorney I am ready, willing and able to endure this as many times as it takes for justice and accountability to be served. Today is not the end of my fight,” Mann said.

Weinstein faces a sentence of up to 25 years in prison for the conviction of first-degree criminal sex act. The rape charge he faces carries a potential sentence of up to four years in prison.

The Miramax perv has also been sentenced to 16 years in California for raping an Italian model at a film festival in 2013.

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He was initially found guilty at trial in 2020 of criminal sex act and rape and given a 23-year prison sentence — but New York’s highest court tossed the conviction last year.

Weinstein’s attorney, who labeled the disgraced Hollywood mogul as the “posterboy of the #MeToo movement,” said they will appeal the conviction.

“We have very powerful evidence that there was gross juror misconduct at this trial,” Aidala said.