Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in New York Sexual Assault Case

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday, September 23, to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former "Project Runway" production assistant, at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. The sentence, handed down by Judge Curtis Farber in Manhattan Supreme Court, comes with five years of supervised release and a requirement that Weinstein register as a sex offender, according to NBC News.

Weinstein, 74, appeared in the courtroom in a wheelchair with his hands cuffed to his seat. He has been in custody since his original 2018 arrest.

This is Weinstein's second sentencing on the Haley case. He was first convicted in 2020 alongside a rape charge involving aspiring actress Jessica Mann and sentenced to 23 years. New York's highest court threw out that conviction in April 2024, ruling Weinstein didn't get a fair trial because jurors heard testimony from women whose allegations weren't part of the case, according to CBS News and The Guardian.

A new jury convicted Weinstein again on the Haley charge in June 2025. That same jury acquitted him of a separate charge involving former model Kaja Sokola and deadlocked on the Mann rape charge. A third trial on the Mann allegation ended in another hung jury in May 2026, and Manhattan prosecutors dropped that charge the following month after Mann said she couldn't face testifying a fourth time, according to Reuters, carried by The Daily Record.

What prosecutors and Haley said

Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg asked Judge Farber for 20 years plus five years of supervision, telling the court Weinstein "has never shown an ounce of remorse and refuses to accept responsibility," according to CBS News. Prosecutors said Weinstein targeted Haley with online harassment and victim-blaming, and called a 2025 podcast interview with Weinstein "a tour de force of victimhood, deflection and conspiracy."

Haley delivered a victim impact statement describing seven years of harassment and humiliation, saying she was "publicly smeared by Weinstein, his defense team, and podcasters she suspects were paid to damage her image," according to The Guardian. She said she'd been diagnosed with PTSD and that testifying repeatedly, including before a grand jury, made her feel like "the one on trial."

"It is a life sentence for me," Haley told the court, according to NBC News.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said afterward that "today was about the survivors," adding he was "moved, as we should all be moved, by their courage and their steadfastness through what has obviously been a challenging process," per NBC News.

What Weinstein and his defense argued

Weinstein addressed the court himself, apologizing "to anyone I may have hurt by my actions" while insisting he is innocent. "I am not a perfect person," he said, "but I am a person who has made mistakes... I am not a violent man." He also described conditions at Rikers Island as "torturous," saying he is "treated like an animal, or less," and said he wants to spend his remaining time advocating for prison reform, according to Variety.

His defense attorney, Marc Agnifilo, pushed back on the scope of the case against his client, telling the judge Weinstein has only been convicted of attacking two women. "It's not dozens, it's two," Agnifilo said, according to ABC News. The defense had asked for a nine-year sentence, citing Weinstein's health, including blood cancer and heart disease, per The Guardian.

More than 100 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct since 2017, when allegations against him helped launch the #MeToo movement. He has been convicted in connection with two of those accusers and has denied the broader allegations.

Judge Farber was unsparing before sentencing. "You took what you wanted by force, and you have never accepted responsibility," he told Weinstein, adding: "You had it all. Your legacy could have been cemented with greatness. But you threw it all away by assaulting Miriam Haley," according to ABC News.

What's still ahead

Weinstein's legal fight isn't over. He was separately convicted in Los Angeles in December 2022 of rape and two counts of sexual assault involving an Italian actor and model, identified by Variety as Evgeniya Chernyshova, for a 2013 hotel-room assault, and was sentenced to 16 years. A California appeals court upheld those convictions in June 2026 but vacated the sentence, ruling the trial judge improperly treated Weinstein's since-overturned New York convictions as an aggravating factor, according to Reuters.

No resentencing date has been set in California. Farber said it will be up to California courts to decide whether that sentence runs concurrently or consecutively with the new 15-year New York term, per Variety.

Weinstein's spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, said his client "will continue to pursue his legal rights and challenge both his conviction and this sentence through the appellate process," according to The Daily Record. Barring a successful appeal, Weinstein will remain behind bars for the rest of his New York sentence, on top of whatever term California ultimately imposes.