{"id":902963,"date":"2026-09-23T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T21:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:42:15","slug":"harvey-weinstein-jail-weinstein-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-2006-sex-crime-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902963\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein jail: Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a felony sex crime<\/a> in another #MeToo reckoning.<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s sentencing on Wednesday in Manhattan for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years.<\/p>\n

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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Supreme Court for sentencing on Wednesday.\u00a0Barry Williams\/Pool<\/p>\n

His 2020 conviction was overturned by New York<\/a>‘s highest court, citing testimony from other women whose allegations weren\u2019t part of the case. A second jury found Weinstein guilty again at a retrial last year.<\/p>\n

Once among the most powerful figures in the entertainment<\/a> industry, Weinstein was an Oscar-winning producer whose hits included Shakespeare in Love, Pulp Fiction and Chocolat. But his downfall came quickly after sexual assault<\/a> allegations in 2017 set off the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, 74, is expected to appeal. He is now likely to remain behind bars until at least his late 80s. He has denied raping or sexually assaulting anyone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seated in a wheelchair, he was quickly wheeled out of the courtroom after the sentencing, while some of his accusers hugged and brushed away tears.<\/p>\n

Weinstein and his victim both spoke in court<\/p>\n

Weinstein faced up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He has already served more than six years as his case has cycled again and again through the criminal justice system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials, and addressed the court on Wednesday just before Weinstein was sentenced.<\/p>\n

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Miriam Haley, accompanied by attorney, Gloria Allred, exits Manhattan Supreme Court after Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting Haley.\u00a0AP Photo\/Michael Sisak<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has had a devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away. Making the decision to speak up will have me looking over my shoulder for years to come,\u201d Haley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a life sentence for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she thought about ending her pursuit of justice many times.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been further traumatised in exercising my right to hold him accountable. All of this traces back to his actions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Minutes later, Weinstein apologised in court to those he may have hurt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have remorse for Miriam Haley\u2019s pain, but I have to reiterate my innocence,\u201d he told the judge.<\/p>\n

Judge Curtis Farber said Weinstein was once a king in the movie industry, \u201cbut recognition for these achievements will pale in comparison to what you did\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said Weinstein is now known as \u201ca sexual predator, the literal face of the #MeToo movement\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Court for sentencing on Wednesday.\u00a0Steven Hirsch \/Pool New York Post via AP<\/p>\n

Why Weinstein is being sentenced a second time<\/p>\n

Weinstein was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assaulting Haley and raping an aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, in 2013.<\/p>\n

Tried for a second time last year, he was again convicted of a first-degree criminal sex act for assaulting Haley, who has also gone by the name Mimi Haleyi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a messy split verdict, the jury acquitted him of forcibly performing oral sex on another woman, Kaja Sokola, and could not reach a verdict on a rape charge involving Mann.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be proven innocent. That I promise you,\u201d Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter in a jailhouse interview in March.<\/p>\n

After another retrial ended in a hung jury in May, Manhattan prosecutors dropped the rape charge rather than pursue a fourth trial after Mann said she could not bear to testify again. That decision cleared the way for Weinstein\u2019s sentencing.<\/p>\n

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Miriam Haley, accompanied by her attorney, Gloria Allred, speaks to the media outside Manhattan Supreme Court.\u00a0AP Photo\/Michael Sisak<\/p>\n

Weinstein\u2019s health issues pushed the defence to ask for leniency<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Jacob Kaplan asked that Weinstein receive a sentence of three more years on top of the six years he\u2019s already served, saying a longer sentence would make it more likely that Weinstein dies in prison.<\/p>\n

Weinstein is in failing health and has been in the hospital six times since 2025, Kaplan said, while dealing with blood cancer<\/a>, congestive heart failure, and kidney issues.<\/p>\n

Weinstein is also awaiting resentencing in a separate rape case in Los Angeles. A California<\/a> appeals court upheld the 2022 conviction but threw out his original 16-year sentence because the judge had considered his New York convictions \u2014 that were later thrown out \u2014 as an aggravating factor.<\/p>\n

After shuffling between state prison, where he tested positive for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and New York City<\/a>\u2019s notorious Rikers Island complex, the ailing Weinstein is now housed at a medical unit for jail inmates at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

His health issues in recent years have included chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes and walking difficulties, his lawyers said. Two years ago, he underwent emergency surgery<\/a> to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.<\/p>\n

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Weinstein is in failing health and has been in the hospital six times since 2025. He was pictured here in 2020.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Haley describes the assault that led to Weinstein\u2019s conviction<\/p>\n

Haley, 49, is a former entertainment producer now working in advertising.<\/p>\n

Born in Finland and raised in Sweden<\/a>, she said she met Weinstein through a mutual connection and worked briefly as a production assistant on a reality competition show that he produced, Project Runway.<\/p>\n

Haley said she accepted an invitation to visit Weinstein\u2019s Manhattan apartment because it would have been odd to decline since she was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles the next day on his company\u2019s dime to attend a film premiere.<\/p>\n

After she and Weinstein briefly chatted on his living room sofa, he lunged to kiss her, she testified. She said she leaped up and rebuffed him, but he grabbed her, forcibly backed her into a bedroom and sexually assaulted her, ignoring her pleas to stop.<\/p>\n

She recalled Weinstein asking, \u201cDon\u2019t you think we\u2019re much closer now?\u201d after either the alleged assault or a subsequent occasion when she says she had unwanted, but not forced, sex with him.<\/p>\n

She also recalled telling him after the second encounter, \u201cYou know you can\u2019t keep doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley, Sokola and Mann have given permission to be identified as victims of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a felony sex…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-902963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}