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Image credit: State of New York; Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in New York City in 2006, Reuters reported. The sentence comes more than six years after Weinstein was first convicted in New York and sentenced to 23 years in prison. That conviction, however, was overturned in 2024, after New York’s highest court ruled that Weinstein had not received a fair trial. Prosecutors tried him again in 2025. At the retrial, jurors convicted Weinstein of first-degree criminal sexual act for assaulting Haley at his Manhattan apartment. They acquitted him of a separate charge involving former model Kaja Sokola and were unable to reach a verdict on a rape charge involving actress Jessica Mann. A later trial on Mann’s allegation also ended in a mistrial. Prosecutors dropped that charge in June after Mann said she did not want to testify at another trial. Haley Returned to Court Years After the Original Conviction Haley, who worked as a production assistant, first testified against Weinstein during his 2020 trial and returned to testify when prosecutors retried the case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg praised Haley following Wednesday’s sentencing, pointing to the years she spent participating in the criminal justice process. Weinstein, 74, continues to maintain that he did not sexually assault Haley and has denied having nonconsensual sex. Judge Curtis Farber imposed the 15-year prison sentence along with five years of post-release supervision. Weinstein’s Original Conviction Weinstein was originally convicted in 2020 of sexually assaulting Haley and raping Mann. But in April 2024, the New York Court of Appeals overturned those convictions and ordered a new trial. The court concluded that the trial judge had improperly allowed testimony from women whose allegations against Weinstein were not part of the criminal charges being tried. The decision did not determine that the allegations against Weinstein were false. Instead, it found that errors during the original trial deprived him of a fair proceeding. The retrial ultimately resulted in a second conviction involving Haley. Weinstein Also Faces a California Sentence Weinstein was separately convicted in California in 2022 of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to 16 years in prison. A California appeals court upheld those convictions in June 2026 but ordered Weinstein to be resentenced. The court found that the California trial judge had considered Weinstein’s original New York convictions when determining his sentence, even though those convictions were later overturned. More than 100 women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct since allegations against him began emerging in 2017. Those disclosures became one of the catalysts for the #MeToo movement and helped draw broader attention to sexual assault, workplace harassment and the barriers survivors can face when reporting misconduct involving powerful people. Survivors of Institutional Sexual Abuse May Have Legal Options Sexual abuse can occur in workplaces, schools, religious organizations and other institutions where people in positions of power are trusted to act responsibly. If you or someone you love experienced sexual abuse in an institutional setting, you may still have legal options. Learn more in our Institutional Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Guide.

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Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years for 2006 Sexual Assault in New York

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Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years for 2006 Sexual Assault in New York

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