A Manhattan court sentenced Harvey Weinstein on Wednesday to 15 years in state prison on a Criminal Sexual Act count, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said, for what the office described as his “violent sexual assault” of Miriam Haley — the sole charge on which he was convicted at his June 2025 retrial. Prosecutors had asked for 20 years.
What was imposed
The D.A.’s office’s own statement on the outcome reads, in full: “The Manhattan D.A.’s Office secured a trial conviction in June 2025 in People v. Harvey Weinstein of Criminal Sexual Act for his violent sexual assault of Miriam Haley. The People requested a sentence of 20 years in state prison. The Court sentenced him to 15 years in state prison.”
The sentence was handed down by Judge Curtis Farber. From the bench, Farber told Weinstein, “You took what you wanted by force, and you have never accepted responsibility,” according to NBC News.
The 15-year term is followed by five years of post-release supervision, and Weinstein must register as a sex offender, NBC News and CBS New York reported.
Outside court, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg Jr. said: “Today was about the survivors. Ms. Haley, her remarks were powerful, moving, and eloquent. I thank her first and foremost, and all of the survivors who came to lend their support. I’m moved, as we should all be moved, by their courage and their steadfastness through what has obviously been a challenging process.”
In court
Haley delivered a victim-impact statement. Outlets’ renderings of her remarks differ in exact wording, so this account paraphrases rather than quotes her directly: NBC News reported she described Weinstein as having abused his position and power and said the assault has had a devastating effect on her life and security, calling it a life sentence for her. The Associated Press reported she said the assault has had a devastating effect on her life and sense of security that may never go away, called it a life sentence for her, and said pursuing accountability against him has further traumatized her.
Weinstein also addressed the court. NBC News reported he said he is not a perfect person and not a violent man. The Associated Press reported he said he has remorse for Haley’s pain but maintains his innocence. The sources reviewed for this article do not report any other accuser speaking in court Wednesday. He denies all allegations of sexual misconduct and has said his sexual encounters were consensual, NBC News reported.
Why he was sentenced twice
Wednesday’s sentencing followed a retrial made necessary by an earlier reversal. Weinstein’s 2020 New York conviction was overturned by the New York Court of Appeals in 2024. At the June 2025 retrial, a jury convicted him on the count involving Haley — who testified the assault took place in his New York apartment in 2006, according to NBC News — acquitted him on a separate count involving Kaja Sokola, and could not reach a verdict on a count involving Jessica Mann. A third trial on the Mann count also ended in a hung jury, and in late June prosecutors declined to try the case a fourth time, NBC News reported.
What today’s number actually means
Weinstein’s California sentence no longer exists. A California appeals court vacated it, and no new sentence has been imposed to replace it — which leaves Wednesday’s 15-year New York sentence as the only sentence currently in effect against him.
Here is how that happened: Weinstein was convicted in Los Angeles in December 2022 and sentenced there, in February 2023, to a separate term of 16 years. In 2026, the California appeals court affirmed the Los Angeles conviction itself but vacated that sentence and ordered Weinstein resentenced, because the original term had rested on his New York convictions as an aggravating factor — and those original 2020 New York convictions were overturned by the New York Court of Appeals in 2024, well before Wednesday’s retrial and sentencing took place. No new Los Angeles sentence has been imposed, and Weinstein’s lawyers have said they intend to appeal the California conviction-affirmance further.
What happens next
California’s resentencing has not taken place, and no hearing date was confirmed in the sources reviewed for this article. As a general matter, Weinstein can appeal now that he has been sentenced in New York, the Associated Press reported. Representatives for Weinstein told Deadline that “there are serious legal issues that remain to be addressed, and today’s sentence will be reviewed as part of the appellate process,” adding that “Harvey will continue to pursue every legal avenue available to him.” This account is current as of Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, drawing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s statement and reporting from NBC News, CBS New York, the Associated Press and Deadline, all published the same day.