Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison in New York after a jury found him guilty in a retrial of sexually assaulting Miriam Haley. The former film producer, appearing in a downtown Manhattan courtroom in a wheelchair with his hands cuffed to his seat, had pleaded not guilty to the charge of first-degree criminal sexual act.
Haley told the court that Weinstein abused his position and power and that the attack had devastating effects on her life and security. “It is a life sentence for me,” she said. Weinstein denied the allegations while apologizing to anyone he may have hurt by his actions.
Judge Curtis Farber said Weinstein had taken what he wanted by force and never accepted responsibility. The sentence will be followed by five years of supervised release, and Weinstein must register as a sex offender. He has been behind bars since his arrest in 2018.
The 15-year term comes after years of shifting rulings in New York. Weinstein was originally convicted in 2020 of third-degree rape involving Jessica Mann and first-degree criminal sexual act involving Haley, and he received a 23-year sentence. A New York state appeals court overturned that conviction in 2024, leading to a new trial. In June 2025, jurors again found him guilty in Haley’s case, acquitted him on a separate charge involving Kaja Sokola, and could not reach a verdict on the Mann allegation.
That deadlock helps explain why the court is now moving case by case rather than in one sweep. Prosecutors declined in late June to try the Jessica Mann charge a fourth time after a third trial ended with no verdict, leaving Wednesday’s sentence focused on Haley’s count alone. Weinstein is also due to be resentenced in Los Angeles after his sentence there was vacated, keeping the legal fallout from his convictions active on both coasts. For Haley, the punishment may not change what she described in court as a life sentence of her own.
