The former Hollywood producer was sentenced after a retrial found him guilty of assaulting Miriam Haley. He continues to deny the allegation and is expected to appeal.
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former television production assistant Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. The sentence marks another major decision in a case that has passed through multiple trials and appeals since Weinstein’s first New York conviction six years ago.
Haley addressed the court before the sentence was handed down. She described the lasting effect of the assault on her sense of safety and the strain of repeatedly recounting her experience during the legal proceedings. Weinstein expressed remorse for her pain but maintained that he had not sexually assaulted her. He is expected to appeal.
The 74-year-old former film producer was first convicted in New York in 2020 of assaulting Haley and raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann. He received a 23-year sentence, but New York’s highest court overturned the convictions in 2024, finding that testimony about allegations outside the charges had improperly influenced the trial. The decision required prosecutors to bring the case before a new jury.
At the retrial in 2025, jurors found Weinstein guilty of a first-degree criminal sex act involving Haley. They acquitted him of a separate charge involving another woman and did not reach a verdict on the charge involving Mann. After a further trial also ended without a verdict, prosecutors dropped the Mann charge. That decision allowed the court to proceed with sentencing for the conviction involving Haley.
The New York sentence does not resolve Weinstein’s separate case in California. An appeals court there upheld his 2022 conviction for rape and sexual assault but ordered a new sentencing hearing because the original 16-year sentence had taken account of New York convictions that were subsequently overturned.
Once one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, Weinstein became a central figure in the public reckoning over sexual misconduct that helped propel the #MeToo movement. Wednesday’s sentence closes one stage of the New York case, although the anticipated appeal and the pending California resentencing mean his legal proceedings are continuing.