“Grotesque Harvey Weinstein should be cleared of charges of raping an aspiring actress — even if Manhattan jurors are skeeved out by the convicted sex pest, his lawyer argued Tuesday.”

“Weinstein, who has been held in city and state custody since his 2018 arrest on various charges, faces one count of third-degree rape for allegedly assaulting Mann in a 2013 encounter at a Manhattan hotel.”

“The disgraced mogul was originally convicted of raping Mann and forcing oral sex on former “Project Runaway” production Assistant Mimi Haley at his first Manhattan sex-crimes trial in 2020.”

“But New York’s highest court ended up overturning that guilty verdict, so the former Miramax boss — who produced flick hits such as “Shakespeare in Love” and “Pulp Fiction” — was put on trial for the cases a second time last summer.”

“Jurors at the re-trial convicted him again of the Haley charge but could not decide on the Mann rap after a tumultuous week of deliberations.”

“Mann, now 41, plans to testify about how Weinstein allegedly forced her to have sex at the Doubletree Hotel in Midtown on March 18, 2013 — with her discovering the then-married onetime movie honcho’s gross erection-inducing drug injector needle in the trash afterward.”

“Weinstein has separately been convicted of raping an Italian model in California and was sentenced to serve 16 years behind bars in that case.”