Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in New York state prison, adding another major chapter to a criminal case that became closely associated with the rise of the #MeToo movement.
New York Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber handed down the sentence on September 23 after Weinstein’s June 2025 conviction for a first-degree criminal sexual act against former production assistant Miriam Haley. The assault occurred at Weinstein’s Manhattan apartment in 2006. Prosecutors had requested a 20-year sentence, while Weinstein’s lawyers sought a shorter term.
The 74-year-old former Hollywood producer has maintained that he did not engage in non-consensual sex and is expected to appeal the conviction. At sentencing, Farber criticized Weinstein for failing to accept responsibility, telling him, “You had it all.”
Why Weinstein was back on trial after his 2020 conviction
The new 15-year sentence follows an unusually complicated six-year legal journey in New York.
Weinstein was originally convicted in Manhattan in 2020 of sexually assaulting Haley and raping aspiring actor Jessica Mann. He received a 23-year prison sentence.
But in April 2024, New York’s highest court overturned that conviction and ordered a new trial after finding that the original proceedings had included testimony that should not have been admitted, depriving Weinstein of a fair trial. The ruling did not declare him innocent; it erased the conviction and required prosecutors to prove their case again.
The retrial produced a different set of outcomes in June 2025.
Jurors convicted Weinstein of sexually assaulting Haley, acquitted him of a separate charge involving former model Kaja Sokola and could not reach a unanimous verdict on Mann’s rape allegation.
Prosecutors tried the Mann charge again in 2026, but a second jury also deadlocked, resulting in another mistrial in May. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office later dropped that remaining charge after Mann said she could not go through another trial.
That left the Haley conviction as the New York case for which Weinstein has now received his 15-year sentence.
Miriam Haley addressed the court before sentencing
Haley’s testimony remained central to both the original case and the retrial.
Following the sentence, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg praised her for continuing to participate in the case through years of appeals and repeated court proceedings.
“Today was about the survivors,” Bragg said after sentencing, thanking Haley and other survivors who attended the hearing.
Weinstein was one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers before allegations against him became public in 2017. His companies were connected to films including Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love and Good Will Hunting. Reporting on accusations against Weinstein became a major catalyst for the international #MeToo movement, which encouraged women across multiple industries to publicly discuss sexual harassment and abuse.
Weinstein still faces a separate California resentencing
The New York sentence does not resolve Weinstein’s legal situation.
He was separately convicted in Los Angeles in 2022 of rape and sexual assault involving model and actor Evgeniya Chernyshova and originally received a 16-year prison sentence.
In June 2026, a California appeals court upheld that conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing. The court found that Weinstein’s original California sentence had improperly taken his now-overturned 2020 New York convictions into account as an aggravating factor.
A date for the California resentencing has not yet been announced. Farber said California will determine whether the eventual California term runs at the same time as, or consecutively to, Weinstein’s new 15-year New York sentence.
That means Wednesday’s ruling closes one significant chapter of Weinstein’s New York prosecution, but not the wider legal process.
His 2020 conviction disappeared after a successful appeal. Prosecutors then took the Haley allegation back before another jury and secured a new conviction in 2025. Six years after Weinstein was first sentenced in New York, that surviving verdict has now resulted in another lengthy prison term.
