Overview
- A New York judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
- The sentence stems from a retrial ordered after the New York Court of Appeals vacated his 2020 conviction in 2024 because of improperly admitted testimony, and a jury in the retrial convicted him only on the charge tied to Haley.
- Prosecutors had asked for 20 years but Judge Curtis Farber imposed 15 years; Haley gave an emotional victim impact statement describing long-term trauma while Weinstein, citing age and health, again denied the assault.
- Weinstein also faces a separate 16-year sentence from California for a different 2013 case that remains subject to appeals, and officials have not yet decided whether the New York and California terms will run concurrently or consecutively.
- The case helped shape the #MeToo movement and the new sentence reinforces multi-jurisdictional accountability for alleged serial abuse even as legal challenges and questions about total time to be served continue.