Harvey Weinstein sentenced, again: A guide to disgraced mogul's convictions and prison time

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Set us as preferred Harvey Weinstein’s winding legal saga took a new turn this week, one that reaffirmed that the former Hollywood kingmaker — whose alleged history of sexual assault and abuse sparked the cross-industry #MeToo reckoning — will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.Weinstein, 74, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison for a felony sex crime tied to allegations from former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam “Mimi” Haley.

After a retrial last year, a majority-female jury found the disgraced Hollywood mogul and co-founder of the defunct Weinstein Co.guilty of sexually assaulting Haley in 2006 at his New York apartment.

Haley described the lasting and “devastating” effects of Weinstein’s assault as she addressed the court during Wednesday’s sentencing.“Making the decision to speak up will have me looking over my shoulder for years to come,” she said.

“It’s a life sentence for me.”Weinstein said he has “remorse for Miriam Haley’s pain,” but maintained that he’s innocent.The New York sentencing this week was not the first time Weinstein received a lengthy prison sentence for sex crimes.

Since the damning sexual assault and harassment allegations against Weinstein first entered the legal spotlight in 2017, the Oscar-winning producer has faced convictions for rape and sexual assault over the course of trials — and retrials — from 2020 to 2025.Weinstein has already served more than six years in New York, leaving him with about nine years left on that sentence.

A pending resentencing in California — he was sentenced to more than a decade for a 2013 rape — could keep the mogul behind bars for life, the Associated Press reported.Here’s a look back on Weinstein’s previous convictions and the prison sentences that followed.

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