Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in New York Retrial

Harvey Weinstein, the former film producer whose downfall in 2017 helped launch the #MeToo movement, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison in Manhattan for sexually assaulting a former production assistant nearly two decades ago. The sentence, handed down by Judge Curtis Farber in New York State Supreme Court, closes out a New York prosecution that spanned two trials, an appellate reversal and more than six years of proceedings.

The sentence stems from Weinstein's conviction on a single count of first-degree criminal sexual act for forcing oral sex on Miriam Haley, then a production assistant on "Project Runway," in his SoHo apartment in 2006. Prosecutors had asked for 20 years; Weinstein's defense sought nine. Farber also ordered five years of post-release supervision and required Weinstein to register as a sex offender. "You took what you wanted by force, and you have never accepted responsibility," Farber told him, according to multiple outlets present in the courtroom, including NBC News.

Haley addressed the court before sentencing, saying Weinstein "abused his position and power" and describing a "devastating effect" on her life and sense of security. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, in a statement issued by his office, said "today was about the survivors," adding he was "moved, as we should all be moved, by their courage and their steadfastness through what has obviously been a challenging process." Weinstein told the court he had "remorse for Miriam Haley's pain" but maintained his innocence. A representative for Weinstein, Juda Engelmayer, said he would "continue to pursue his legal rights and challenge both his conviction and this sentence through the appellate process," according to Deadline.

A case with a long procedural history

Weinstein was first convicted in 2020 on charges involving Haley and another accuser, Jessica Mann, and sentenced to 23 years. New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals, threw out that conviction in a 4-3 decision issued in April 2024, ruling that the trial judge improperly allowed testimony about uncharged allegations that prejudiced the jury. Prosecutors retried the case; in June 2025 a jury convicted Weinstein on the Haley count, acquitted him of assaulting a third accuser, Kaja Sokola, and deadlocked on a third-degree rape charge involving Mann. A second attempt to retry that rape count also ended in a hung jury this year, and prosecutors ultimately dropped it rather than put Mann through a fourth trial.

Weinstein, 74, remains incarcerated at Bellevue Hospital's prison ward in Manhattan, where he has been treated for conditions including bone marrow cancer, kidney disease and diabetes. He is separately serving a 16-year sentence imposed in Los Angeles in 2022 for a 2013 rape conviction, which is pending its own resentencing after an appeal. It remains unclear how the New York and California terms will run relative to each other.

The case traces back to October 2017, when investigations published five days apart by The New York Times and The New Yorker detailed decades of alleged sexual misconduct by Weinstein, then one of Hollywood's most powerful producers. More than 80 women ultimately came forward with allegations against him, and the reporting is widely credited with accelerating the #MeToo movement, in which the phrase — coined years earlier by activist Tarana Burke — became a rallying cry against sexual harassment and assault across entertainment, media, politics and other industries. Wednesday's sentencing, coming almost nine years after those first reports, marked one of the last remaining chapters of Weinstein's New York legal saga, though his California case and planned appeal mean the litigation is not yet over.