Harvey Weinstein's long-running New York sex crimes case just hit a conclusion: a 15-year prison sentence. A Manhattan judge handed down the term Wednesday after a jury in June again found the onetime Hollywood powerhouse guilty of a first-degree criminal sexual act against former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley, who testified that he forcibly performed oral sex on her in his New York City apartment in 2006. In a victim impact statement read to the court, Haley called the impact on her life "a life sentence." Weinstein, 74, arrived in court in a wheelchair and continued deny the allegations, saying he is "not a violent man" but "a person who has made mistakes." Judge Curtis Farber chided Weinstein for having "never accepted responsibility."
The sentencing "came after a protracted series of trials, appeals, and courtroom proceedings," per NBC News: Weinstein was originally convicted of the same charge involving Haley in 2020, when he was also found guilty of third-degree rape involving former aspiring actor Jessica Mann. He was handed 23 years, but that conviction was overturned in 2024 after New York's highest court ruled that the jury was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren't part of the case, reports the AP; he was retried. Jurors tried and failed twice more to reach a verdict on the charge related to Mann; she said she could not endure a fourth trial. Weinstein remains incarcerated amid separate Los Angeles convictions and a pending resentencing there.
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