Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former television production assistant Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.
Judge Curtis Farber imposed the sentence in New York after Weinstein was convicted in June 2025 of a first-degree criminal sexual act. The verdict came at a retrial ordered after New York’s highest court overturned his original conviction because of errors in the way the first trial was conducted.
Haley told the court that the assault and the legal process that followed had caused lasting damage to her life. She said she had endured years of harassment, public humiliation and attempts to discredit her since coming forward. She described the consequences of the assault as a life sentence and asked the judge to consider the continuing harm when deciding Weinstein’s punishment.
Prosecutors requested a 20-year prison term followed by five years of supervision, arguing that Weinstein had failed to demonstrate genuine remorse. His lawyers sought a nine-year sentence, citing his age and serious medical conditions, which reportedly include heart disease and a form of blood cancer.
Weinstein, now 74, expressed regret during the hearing and apologised for his actions. However, he continues to deny sexually assaulting anyone or engaging in non-consensual sex. His spokesperson said he maintained his innocence, disagreed with the sentence and intended to appeal.
The case began with Weinstein’s first New York trial in 2020. A jury convicted him of assaulting Haley and raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann, and he was sentenced to 23 years in prison. That judgment became one of the most prominent convictions associated with the #MeToo movement.
New York’s Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 2024, ruling that the trial judge had improperly allowed testimony from women whose accusations were not part of the charges being tried. The ruling did not declare Weinstein innocent but concluded that the admission of that testimony had deprived him of a fair trial.
At the 2025 retrial, jurors again convicted Weinstein of assaulting Haley. They acquitted him of a separate charge involving former model Kaja Sokola but could not reach a verdict on the allegation that he raped Mann.
Prosecutors attempted to try the Mann charge again in 2026, but that case also ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. The charge was subsequently dropped after Mann said she could not endure testifying for a fourth trial.
Weinstein also remains convicted in California of raping and sexually assaulting actor and model Evgeniya Chernyshova in a Los Angeles hotel room in 2013. He was originally sentenced to 16 years in that case, but a California appeals court ordered a new sentencing hearing after finding that the trial judge had considered Weinstein’s subsequently overturned New York convictions when determining the punishment.
The California conviction itself remains intact. It is not yet clear whether Weinstein’s California and New York sentences will be served one after the other or at the same time. Judge Farber said California authorities would ultimately determine how the two sentences interact.
More than 100 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct. The allegations against the once-powerful producer helped transform isolated accounts of abuse into the global #MeToo movement and forced a broader examination of how professional influence could be used to silence victims.
