Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years in New York
Judge Curtis Farber sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison on September 23 in New York for his 2006 assault on Miriam Haley, plus five years of supervision and sex offender registration.
Harvey Weinstein, 74, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Judge Curtis Farber handed down the sentence on Wednesday, September 23, in a Manhattan courtroom, according to NBC and TMZ. The former Hollywood producer stood trial for first degree criminal sexual act against Miriam Haley, a former production assistant on the reality show “Project Runway,” in an assault that took place in 2006.
Along with the prison term, Farber ordered five years of supervision after Weinstein’s release, as well as mandatory registration as a sex offender. Weinstein arrived in the courtroom in a wheelchair and again denied sexually assaulting any of the women who have accused him.
The judge did not mince words. “You took what you wanted by force, and you never accepted responsibility,” he told Weinstein in court, according to NBC and TMZ. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said after the sentencing that the day belonged to the survivors. “Today was about the survivors,” Bragg said, according to TMZ. Miriam Haley herself addressed the court before the sentence was handed down. “For me, this is a life sentence,” she said, according to NBC.
Serbian outlet B92 reports that prosecutors had sought a 20 year sentence, while the defense asked for a lighter punishment, arguing Weinstein had already served more than six years behind bars in connection with this case. Other sources we reviewed do not confirm that figure.
Why is this a second trial over the same case?
Weinstein was first convicted in 2020, when he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the assault on Haley and for the 2013 rape of actress Jessica Mann. New York’s appeals court overturned that verdict in 2024, citing an unfair trial, and ordered a retrial.
At the 2025 retrial, a jury convicted him again over the assault on Haley. At the same time, it acquitted him of the charge involving Kaja Sokola, while it deadlocked on the charge brought by Jessica Mann. A third trial on that count, which wrapped up this past May, also ended without a verdict, and prosecutors dropped the case after Mann said she did not want to testify a fourth time.
Weinstein also faces a new proceeding in California, where he was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2023. An appeals court there overturned that sentence and sent the case back for resentencing, while the 2020 New York conviction had already been found legally flawed.
Weinstein’s health has deteriorated in recent years. He suffers from bone marrow cancer, kidney disease and diabetes, and is being held in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital. He was one of the central figures in the wave of allegations that launched the Me Too movement in 2017, with more than 80 women publicly accusing him of different forms of sexual misconduct.
