Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant.
In a victim-impact statement in court, Miriam Haley said the assault had had a “devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away”.
Appearing in court in a wheelchair, Weinstein denied the allegations but apologised to “anyone I may have hurt by my actions”.
Weinstein has already spent several years jailed in New York, where he has faced three trials over rape and abuse allegations. He was convicted in a seperate sex-crime case in Los Angeles.
This is the second time he has been given a prison sentence in the Miriam Haley case. Weinstein was first convicted and sentenced in 2020, but New York’s highest court overturned the conviction in 2024, along with another involving actress Jessica Mann. The court ruled that Weinstein did not get a fair trial.
Weinstein, 74, is currently being held in a prison ward at New York’s Bellevue Hospital for a series of ailments reported during his incarceration.
Once the high-flying producer behind Miramax, the studio that produced hits like Shakespeare in Love, Weinstein fell from grace in 2017 after the New York Times and the New Yorker revealed multiple women’s allegations of sexual assault stretching back decades.
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Harvey Weinstein was once the high-flying producer behind Miramax
The accusations against him sparked the #MeToo movement, but New York prosecutors have had to navigate a twisting path in securing convictions and sentences.
