Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault

23 September 2026, 17: 00 BST. Updated 1 hour ago.

Key points

• In the 2020 trial, Haley testified that Weinstein had assaulted her in a bedroom in his Manhattan apartment in 2006.
• Weinstein is still awaiting sentencing in the California, where he was convicted in 2022 of raping and sexually assaulting an actress in a hotel room in 2013.
• Weinstein, 74, is at present being held in a prison ward at New York's Bellevue Hospital for a series of ailments noted during his incarceration.
• On Wednesday, Judge Curtis Farber criticised the former Hollywood mogul as he confirmed the 15-year sentence.
• Weinstein has already spent a number of years jailed in New York, where he has faced three trials over rape and abuse allegations.

After a jury discovered him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant, disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

In a victim-impact statement in court, Miriam Haley remarked 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 a number of 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 obtain a fair trial.

He was retried and convicted again last year on a single charge of a criminal sexual act against Haley.

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 made public multiple women's allegations of sexual assault stretching back decades.

In practice, the accusations against him sparked the #MeToo movement, but New York prosecutors have had to navigate a twisting path in securing convictions and sentences.

In the 2020 trial, Haley testified that Weinstein had assaulted her in a bedroom in his Manhattan apartment in 2006. Haley was a production assistant on the Project Runway television series at the time.

On charges related to Mann, juries could not reach a verdict, and he was discovered not guilty in another charge involving model Kaja Sokola.

After testifying in the retrial last year, Haley informed the BBC she felt compelled to take the stand.

"I just thought, I have to stand up for myself. I have to stand up for the truth, " she remarked.

Meanwhile, an appeals court ordered he be re-sentenced in the case after the New York convictions were overturned.

Weinstein has consistently denied the allegations against him, and remarked he believes he will be proven innocent.

"You took what you wanted by force and you have never accepted responsibility, " Farber remarked.

Taken together, the developments around harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.