DISGRACED MOVIE MOGUL Harvey Weinstein, who was at the centre of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former production assistant.<\/p>\n
Weinstein (74) forcibly performed oral sex in 2006 on Miriam Haley, one of dozens of women who have made accusations against the \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d and \u201cShakespeare in Love\u201d producer.<\/p>\n
Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in 2020 for the sexual assault, but it was overturned on appeal in 2024. A jury found him guilty again in 2025 after a retrial in New York.<\/p>\n
He made a last-ditch plea for leniency Wednesday as he addressed a packed Manhattan courthouse, where Haley sat in the audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a violent man, have some mercy,\u201d said Weinstein, who wore a dark suit with a red tie and sat in a wheelchair, which he is bound to due to health issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sincerely apologise to anyone I have hurt,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors had sought 20 years in prison for Weinstein, while his lawyers warned that a longer sentence would likely see him die in prison.<\/p>\n
Haley told the court that she had suffered a \u201clife sentence\u201d and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after Weinstein assaulted her.<\/p>\n
She said that Weinstein \u201cabused his position of power\u201d and that she \u201cfelt embarrassed that he thought I was so insignificant that he dared to do something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Me Too movement<\/p>\n
Weinstein once ruled Hollywood as a kingpin powerful enough to make or break projects and careers.<\/p>\n
But investigations by The New Yorker and The New York Times exposed a raft of abusive behaviour and prompted an avalanche of allegations from more than 80 people.<\/p>\n
Weinstein is also to be resentenced in California for the 2013 rape and assault of an actress in a Los Angeles hotel room, after an appeals court in June upheld the conviction but vacated his 16-year prison term.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a New York judge in May declared a mistrial in a separate case after jurors failed to reach a verdict on allegations he sexually assaulted actor Jessica Mann.<\/p>\n
It was the third time Mann had taken the stand against Weinstein after a 2020 guilty verdict was overturned due to mishandling of witnesses, and a 2025 case ended in mistrial after a jury-room feud.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors later said they would not pursue a fourth trial in Mann\u2019s case.<\/p>\n
Weinstein underwent a spectacular fall from his position astride the world of show business when the first allegations against him exploded into public view.<\/p>\n
This snowballed into the global #MeToo movement and a reckoning that rocked the world of entertainment, with multiple men called to account for abusing their positions to exploit young women in the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DISGRACED MOVIE MOGUL Harvey Weinstein, who was at the centre of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,63415,3211,61,60,32902,269232,4320,51180],"class_list":["post-634135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-me-too-movement","tag-miriam-haley","tag-new-york","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}