California appeals court upheld the 2022 conviction but threw out his original 16-year sentence<\/a> because the judge had considered his New York convictions that were later thrown out as an aggravating factor.<\/p>\nAfter shuffling between state prison, where he tested positive for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and New York City\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 that necessitate a wheelchair to get in and out of court, his lawyers said. Two years ago, he underwent emergency surgery to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.<\/p>\n
Haley, 49, is a former entertainment producer now working in advertising.<\/p>\n
Born in Finland and raised in Sweden, she said she met Weinstein through a mutual connection and worked briefly as a production assistant on a reality competition show that he produced, \u201cProject Runway.\u201d<\/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
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Haley, Sokola and Mann have done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3294,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-354381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}