Harvey Weinstein wants to testify – but he won't – as a matter of courtroom strategy, a spokesman for the former movie mogul now midway through a rape retrial in New York told TheWrap on Monday.

"He wants to testify, and we respect that. But the courtroom isn’t just about truth — it’s also strategy,” a spokesperson for the former Hollywood mogul said.

At one point Harvey Weinstein's lawyers worried aloud their much-ailing client wouldn't make it through his New York rape retrial alive, now they've decided the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer will conclude the case without saying a word in his own defense.