Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 15 Years for 2006 Assault on Miriam Haley

• Harvey Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 23, to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley in 2006.
• A jury convicted him in June 2025 at a retrial, after New York’s highest court overturned his 2020 conviction.
• He still faces resentencing in Los Angeles, where a separate 2022 conviction carried 16 years.

Fifteen more years. Harvey Weinstein, 74, was sentenced Wednesday (Sept. 23) in a Manhattan courtroom for forcing oral sex on former Project Runway production assistant Miriam Haley in his SoHo apartment on July 10, 2006.

The former Hollywood producer was brought in in a wheelchair, his hands cuffed to it. Judge Curtis Farber added five years of supervised release and ordered him to register as a sex offender. Prosecutors had asked for 20 years.

What did Miriam Haley say at the sentencing?

Haley read a victim impact statement for about 10 minutes. She said Weinstein “abused his position and power” and that the assault has had “a devastating effect on my life and security.” She has now testified against him at two trials.

“It is a life sentence for me.”

— Miriam Haley, in court

She described the trials as a second ordeal: “It has often felt like I was the one on trial.” She said she “certainly didn’t think I’d be standing here again six years after the [first] conviction.”

Weinstein again denied the charge. “I am not a perfect person, but I am a person who has made mistakes,” he told the court, adding that he “sincerely” apologized “to anyone I may have hurt by my actions. But I have to reiterate my innocence.” He also said: “I am not a violent man.”

Farber answered before handing down the sentence: “You took what you wanted by force, and you have never accepted responsibility.”

Why was Harvey Weinstein retried?

Because his first conviction didn’t hold. In April 2024, New York’s Court of Appeals threw out his 2020 verdict, ruling that the trial judge had let women testify about accusations that were not part of the charges. The case went back to trial court.

The case, in order:

• 2017: The New York Times and The New Yorker publish accusations against Weinstein, helping launch the #MeToo movement.
• 2018: He is arrested in New York.
• 2020: A jury convicts him of raping Jessica Mann and of the criminal sexual act against Haley; he is sentenced to 23 years.
• Dec. 2022: A Los Angeles jury convicts him of rape and two counts of sexual assault from 2013; in February 2023 he is sentenced to 16 years.
• April 2024: New York’s top court overturns the 2020 conviction.
• June 2025: At the retrial, he is convicted of the act against Haley, acquitted on model Kaja Sokola’s accusation, and the jury deadlocks on Mann’s.
• June 2026: After a third trial on Mann’s accusation also ends without a verdict, prosecutors decide not to try it a fourth time.
• Sept. 23, 2026: Sentenced to 15 years.

More than 80 women have accused Weinstein of sexual assault or harassment. He denies all of it and says his sexual encounters were consensual.

When will Harvey Weinstein get out of prison?

Not soon. He has been in custody for more than six years, and he is held at Bellevue Hospital’s prison ward until he is moved to a state prison. In court, he called his conditions on Rikers Island “torturous.”

The Los Angeles sentence is the open question. An appeals court vacated his 16-year term there, so he must be resentenced; Farber said it is up to California whether that time runs at the same time as New York’s or on top of it. No date has been set.

“Today was about the survivors,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said after the hearing. More celebrity court cases are in our Celebrities section, including the lawsuit behind Jennifer Eckhart’s case against Ed Henry and the restraining order in Dolly Parton’s estate fight. Everything on Weinstein is on his page.

— Bruno Monteiro

Sources: People v. Weinstein, New York State Supreme Court, Manhattan, sentencing of Sept. 23, 2026, as reported by NBC News (Daniel Arkin, Adam Reiss), Variety (Antonio Ferme) and ABC News; statement by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg; New York Court of Appeals decision (April 2024); Los Angeles County Superior Court conviction (Dec. 2022) and sentence (Feb. 2023). Photos: frames from NBC News, Sept. 23, 2026.