Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2006 sex crime in New York

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Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for a felony sex crime in another #MeToo reckoning.

Weinstein’s sentencing for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley followed a legal odyssey spanning more than six years after his 2020 conviction was overturned. A jury found Weinstein guilty again at a retrial last year.

Once among the most powerful figures in the entertainment industry, Weinstein was an Oscar-winning producer whose hits included “Shakespeare in Love,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Chocolat.” But his downfall came quickly after sexual assault allegations in 2017 set off the #MeToo movement.

In 2024, New York’s highest court erased Weinstein’s conviction six years ago and ordered a new trial, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren’t part of the case.

Weinstein, 74, faced up to 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. He has already served more than six years as his case has cycled again and again through the criminal justice system. Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials and spoke again in court Wednesday just before Weinstein was to be sentenced.

“Having been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has had a devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away. Making the decision to speak up will have me looking over my shoulder for years to come,” Haley said. “It’s a life sentence for me.”

“I’ve been further traumatized in exercising my right to hold him accountable. All of this traces back to his actions,” she said, adding that she thought about ending her pursuit of justice many times.

Minutes later, Weinstein apologized in court to those he may have hurt. “I do have remorse for Miriam Haley’s pain, but I have to reiterate my innocence,” he told the judge while seated in a wheelchair.

He was originally sentenced to 23 years in prison after a jury convicted him of assaulting Haley and raping an aspiring actress, Jessica Mann, in 2013.

But New York’s highest court erased those guilty verdicts in 2024, ruling that Weinstein was prejudiced by testimony from other women whose allegations weren’t part of the case.

Tried for a second time last year, Weinstein was again convicted of a first-degree criminal sex act for assaulting Haley, who has also gone by the name Mimi Haleyi. In a messy split verdict, the jury acquitted him of forcibly performing oral sex on another woman, Kaja Sokola, and could not reach a verdict on a rape charge involving Mann.

After another retrial ended in a hung jury in May, Manhattan prosecutors dropped the rape charge rather than pursue a fourth trial after Mann said she could not bear to testify again.

That decision cleared the way for Weinstein’s sentencing.

Manhattan prosecutors asked for 20 years in prison — which would keep him behind bars until at least his late 80s.

Defense lawyer Jacob Kaplan asked that Weinstein receive a sentence of three more years on top of the six years he’s already served, saying a longer sentence would make it more likely that Weinstein dies in prison.

Weinstein is in failing health and has been in the hospital six times since 2025, Kaplan said, while dealing with blood cancer, congestive heart failure, and kidney issues. He has used a wheelchair now for several years.

Weinstein has denied raping or sexually assaulting anyone. Once he’s sentenced, he can appeal.

“I will be proven innocent. That I promise you,” Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter in a jailhouse interview in March.

Weinstein is also awaiting resentencing in a separate rape case in Los Angeles. A California appeals court upheld the 2022 conviction but threw out his original 16-year sentence because the judge had considered his New York convictions that were later thrown out as an aggravating factor.

After shuffling between state prison, where he tested positive for COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and New York City’s notorious Rikers Island complex, the ailing Weinstein is now housed at a medical unit for jail inmates at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.

His health issues in recent years have included chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes and walking difficulties that necessitate a wheelchair to get in and out of court, his lawyers said. Two years ago, he underwent emergency surgery to remove fluid on his heart and lungs.

Haley, 49, is a former entertainment producer now working in advertising.

Born in Finland and raised in Sweden, she said she met Weinstein through a mutual connection and worked briefly as a production assistant on a reality competition show that he produced, “Project Runway.”

Haley said she accepted an invitation to visit Weinstein’s Manhattan apartment because it would have been odd to decline since she was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles the next day on his company’s dime to attend a film premiere.

After she and Weinstein briefly chatted on his living room sofa, he lunged to kiss her, she testified. She said she leaped up and rebuffed him, but he grabbed her, forcibly backed her into a bedroom and sexually assaulted her, ignoring her pleas to stop.

She recalled Weinstein asking, “Don’t you think we’re much closer now?” after either the alleged assault or a subsequent occasion when she says she had unwanted, but not forced, sex with him.

She also recalled telling him after the second encounter, “You know you can’t keep doing this.”

The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, which Haley, Sokola and Mann have done.

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声名狼藉的电影大亨哈维·韦恩斯坦周三因性犯罪重罪被判处 15 年监禁，这是 #MeToo 运动的又一次清算。

韦恩斯坦因性侵前电视制作助理米里亚姆·哈利而被判刑，此前他经历了长达六年多的法律诉讼。2020年，他的定罪被推翻，去年，陪审团在重审中再次认定韦恩斯坦有罪。

韦恩斯坦曾是娱乐界最有权势的人物之一，这位奥斯卡获奖制片人制作的影片包括《莎翁情史》、《低俗小说》和《浓情巧克力》。但2017年性侵指控引发#MeToo运动后，他的垮台很快发生。

2024 年，纽约最高法院推翻了韦恩斯坦六年前的定罪，并下令重新审判，裁定韦恩斯坦受到了其他女性证词的偏见，而这些女性的指控并不属于本案。

现年74岁的韦恩斯坦因2006年在其曼哈顿公寓性侵海莉而面临最高25年监禁。由于案件在刑事司法系统中反复审理，他已服刑超过六年。海莉在两次庭审中讲述了她遭受性侵的经过，并在周三韦恩斯坦被判刑前再次出庭作证。

“被哈维·韦恩斯坦性侵对我的生活和安全感造成了毁灭性的打击，这种影响可能永远无法消除。决定发声意味着我将在未来的很多年里都生活在恐惧之中，”海莉说。“这对我来说无异于终身监禁。”

“我行使追究他责任的权利，却因此遭受了更大的精神创伤。这一切都源于他的行为，”她说道，并补充说她曾多次想过放弃追究正义。

几分钟后，韦恩斯坦在法庭上向那些可能被他伤害的人道歉。“我对米里亚姆·海莉所遭受的痛苦感到懊悔，但我必须重申我的清白，”他坐在轮椅上对法官说道。

2013 年，陪审团认定他袭击了海莉并强奸了有抱负的女演员杰西卡·曼恩，他最初被判处 23 年监禁。

但纽约最高法院在 2024 年推翻了这些有罪判决，裁定韦恩斯坦受到了其他女性证词的偏见，而这些女性的指控并不属于本案。

去年，韦恩斯坦第二次受审，再次被判犯有一级性侵罪，受害者是海莉（也曾用名米米·海莉伊）。在一次混乱的判决中，陪审团裁定他强迫另一名女子卡娅·索科拉进行口交的指控不成立，但未能就涉及曼恩的强奸指控达成一致意见。

5 月份，另一次重审因陪审团无法达成一致而告终。曼恩表示她无法忍受再次作证，曼哈顿检察官因此撤销了强奸指控，而不是进行第四次审判。

这一决定为对韦恩斯坦的量刑扫清了障碍。

曼哈顿检察官要求判处 20 年监禁——这将使他至少在狱中待到 80 多岁。

辩护律师雅各布·卡普兰请求对韦恩斯坦判处三年监禁，加上他已经服刑的六年，称更长的刑期将使韦恩斯坦更有可能死于狱中。

卡普兰说，温斯坦健康状况每况愈下，自2025年以来已六次入院治疗，他患有血癌、充血性心力衰竭和肾脏疾病。他已经使用轮椅好几年了。

韦恩斯坦否认曾强奸或性侵任何人。一旦被判刑，他可以上诉。

“我会证明我是清白的。我向你保证，”韦恩斯坦在3月份接受《好莱坞报道》狱中采访时说道。

韦恩斯坦在洛杉矶的另一起强奸案中也面临重新量刑。加州上诉法院维持了2022年的定罪，但推翻了他最初的16年刑期，因为法官将他后来被撤销的纽约定罪作为加重情节考虑在内。

在疫情初期，韦恩斯坦在州立监狱（他在那里的 COVID-19 检测呈阳性）和纽约市臭名昭著的雷克岛监狱之间辗转之后，如今，身患重病的韦恩斯坦被安置在曼哈顿贝尔维尤医院的监狱囚犯医疗单元。

他的律师表示，近年来他的健康问题包括慢性粒细胞白血病、糖尿病以及行走困难，以至于他需要轮椅才能进出法庭。两年前，他接受了紧急手术，清除心脏和肺部的积液。

49岁的海莉曾是一名娱乐节目制作人，现在从事广告行业。

她出生于芬兰，在瑞典长大。她说，她通过共同的朋友认识了韦恩斯坦，并曾在他制作的真人秀竞赛节目《天桥骄子》中短暂担任过制作助理。

海莉表示，她接受了韦恩斯坦的邀请去他位于曼哈顿的公寓参观，因为拒绝会很奇怪，毕竟她第二天就要乘坐韦恩斯坦公司的飞机前往洛杉矶参加一场电影首映式，费用由韦恩斯坦的公司承担。

据她作证，她和韦恩斯坦在他家的客厅沙发上短暂交谈后，韦恩斯坦突然扑向她，想要亲吻她。她说她跳起来拒绝了他，但他抓住她，强行把她拖进卧室，并对她进行了性侵犯，全然不顾她求饶。

她回忆说，在她声称遭到性侵犯之后，或者在她声称自己被迫与他发生性关系之后，韦恩斯坦曾问她：“你不觉得我们现在关系更亲密了吗？”

她还回忆起第二次见面后对他说：“你知道你不能再这样下去了。”

美联社通常不会公开自称是性侵犯受害者的身份，除非他们本人同意，而 Haley、Sokola 和 Mann 都同意公开身份。