Harvey Weinstein jailed for 15 years for sex crime against his assistant

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a former production assistant, Miriam Haley, at his Manhattan apartment in 2006. According to Live Mint, this conviction came after a retrial in 2025, where a Manhattan jury again found Weinstein guilty of a first-degree criminal sex act involving Haley.

Weinstein was initially convicted in New York in 2020 of sexually assaulting Haley and raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. However, New York's highest court overturned that conviction in 2024 and ordered a new trial. In the 2025 retrial, Weinstein was convicted of sexually abusing Haley but acquitted on a separate charge involving former model Kaja Sokola.

The 15-year sentence follows the maximum sentence of 25 years for the charge. Weinstein has repeatedly denied sexually assaulting or raping anyone. This sentencing marks another chapter in the legal saga closely associated with the #MeToo movement.

Brief written by urgent.news from ABC News AU, Live Mint, National Post, CBC News, PBS NewsHour — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.