Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for 2006 Sexual Assault
A New York judge handed down the sentence for assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley — closing another chapter in the disgraced mogul's six-year #MeToo legal saga, though he remains held on a separate 16-year California term.
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer whose downfall in 2017 helped ignite the #MeToo movement, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former production assistant in his Manhattan apartment nearly two decades ago.
A New York judge imposed the sentence after Weinstein, 74, was convicted at retrial of first-degree criminal sexual act for the 2006 assault of Miriam Haley, who worked as a production assistant on "Project Runway" at the time. The conviction came at a retrial held in June 2025, after New York's highest court threw out his original 2020 conviction over improper testimony from accusers whose allegations weren't part of the charged counts.
Weinstein co-founded Miramax and helped bankroll decades of Oscar-winning films before more than 100 women, including many prominent actresses, accused him of sexual misconduct starting in October 2017 — allegations that helped launch a global reckoning over workplace harassment.
A Sentence Layered on Another
Wednesday's 15-year term is separate from — and will not erase — a 16-year sentence a Los Angeles court handed Weinstein in 2022 for rape and sexual assault of an Italian model and actress. He has remained incarcerated continuously since his original 2020 New York conviction.
THE JURY DID NOT BELIEVE WEINSTEIN'S LIES — AND NEITHER DID THE COURT.
Prosecutors argued at sentencing that Weinstein showed no genuine remorse for Haley or the other women whose testimony shaped the trial, according to coverage of Wednesday's hearing. His defense team has signaled it intends to keep appealing his convictions, continuing a legal fight that has now stretched nearly a decade.
The case is the latest milestone in what Variety described as a six-year legal saga that has played out across two states, three trials and an appellate reversal. Haley, now in her 40s, has said publicly she pursued the case to ensure accountability no matter how long the process took.
With both the New York and California sentences now final at the trial level, Weinstein — who uses a wheelchair and has been treated for multiple serious health conditions since his incarceration began — is expected to remain in custody as his appeals proceed through the courts.