Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Sexual Assault
Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty last year of sexually assaulting a former assistant.
Miriam Haley, the accuser, delivered a victim‑impact statement describing the assault as having a “devastating” effect on her life and sense of security.
Weinstein appeared in court in a wheelchair, denied the allegations but apologized to "anyone I may have hurt by my actions."
He had already spent several years jailed in New York, where he faced three trials over rape and abuse allegations. He was also convicted in a separate sex‑crime case in Los Angeles.
This sentencing is the second time he has been given a prison sentence in the Miriam Haley case. Weinstein was first convicted and sentenced in 2020, but New York’s highest court overturned the conviction in 2024, citing an unfair trial, along with another case involving actress Jessica Mann.
He was retried and convicted again last year on a single charge of a criminal sexual act against Haley. Weinstein, 74, is currently held in a prison ward at New York’s Bellevue Hospital for a series of ailments reported during his incarceration.
The allegations against him sparked the #MeToo movement, and New York prosecutors have navigated a challenging path securing convictions and sentences. In the 2020 trial, Haley testified that Weinstein had assaulted her in a bedroom in his Manhattan apartment in 2006, when she was a production assistant on Project Runway.
Juries could not reach a verdict in charges related to Mann, and he was found not guilty in another case involving model Kaja Sokola. After testifying in the retrial last year, Haley told the BBC she felt compelled to stand up for herself and the truth.
Weinstein is still awaiting sentencing in California, where he was convicted in 2022 of raping and sexually assaulting an actress in a hotel room in 2013. An appeals court ordered he be resentenced in that case after the New York convictions were overturned.
The judge, Curtis Farber, criticized the former Hollywood mogul as he announced the 15-year sentence, stating: "You took what you wanted by force and you have never accepted responsibility."
