{"id":355093,"date":"2026-09-23T22:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355093\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:56:55","slug":"harvey-weinstein-receives-15-year-prison-sentence-after-new-york-retrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355093\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Weinstein receives 15-year prison sentence after New York retrial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0A New York judge sentenced former Hollywood<\/a> producer Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually assaulting a former production assistant in 2006, following the ex-movie mogul’s conviction at a retrial last year.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, 74, was convicted in June 2025 of first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting<\/a> Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment, the culmination of a six-year legal saga that saw his 2020 conviction overturned by New York’s highest court. Weinstein has denied assaulting anyone or having non-consensual sex.<\/p>\n

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Wednesday praised Haley for her testimony<\/a> and said he was moved by her courage.<\/p>\n

A Weinstein spokesman said in a statement that Weinstein maintains his innocence and strongly disagrees with the sentence imposed by Judge Curtis Farber.<\/p>\n

Weinstein was first convicted in New York in 2020 of assaulting<\/a> Haley and raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. New York’s highest court overturned that conviction in 2024, finding that he had not received a fair trial. At his 2025 retrial, jurors convicted him of a charge related to Haley, acquitted him of assaulting former model Kaja Sokola, and deadlocked on a rape charge involving Mann.<\/p>\n

A third trial on Mann’s allegation ended in another mistrial in May. Prosecutors dropped the charge the following month after Mann said she did not want to testify in a fourth trial.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, who co-founded the Miramax studio, was separately convicted in California in 2022 of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to 16 years. A California appeals court in June upheld those convictions but ordered him resentenced because the trial judge had considered his since-overturned New York convictions as an aggravating factor.<\/p>\n

Weinstein’s original conviction was a milestone for the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by powerful men.<\/p>\n

More than 100 women, including famous actresses, have accused Weinstein of misconduct. He has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0A New York judge sentenced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison on Wednesday for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,6431,2558,75,84,83,9,24,63,3018,3019],"class_list":["post-355093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime","tag-harvey-weinstein","tag-hollywood","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355093","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=355093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}