Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years in prison for criminal sexual act

Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant.

In a victim impact statement in court, his accuser, Miriam Haley, said the assault had a "devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away".

Appearing in court in a wheelchair, Weinstein denied the allegations but apologised to "anyone I may have hurt by my actions".

Weinstein has already spent six years in prison as the cases against him play out, and he has a separate conviction for sex crimes in Los Angeles. He has faced three trials in New York over rape and abuse allegations.

He was originally convicted and sentenced in the Miriam Haley case in 2020. But in 2024, New York's highest court overturned the conviction, ruling Weinstein did not get a fair trial. He was retried and convicted again in the case last year.

Weinstein was a high-flying Hollywood producer behind Miramax, the studio that produced hits like Shakespeare in Love, before reports in 2017 detailed allegations of sexual assault against him stretching back decades, sparking the #MeToo movement.

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