Harvey Weinstein’s New York Sentencing Set for September 23

Harvey Weinstein, the 74-year-old former film producer, will be sentenced on September 23 for a felony sexual assault involving former production assistant Miriam Haley. Manhattan prosecutors have asked that he receive a 20-year prison term. The sentencing will conclude the latest chapter of his criminal proceedings in New York.

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Weinstein was first convicted in New York in 2020 for multiple sex crimes, including the assault on Haley, and received a 23-year sentence. An appeals court overturned that verdict in 2024, ruling that his trial had been unfair, and ordered a new trial. In a 2025 retrial, a jury again found him guilty of a single count of criminal sexual act against Haley, while other charges resulted in acquittals or deadlocked juries. A separate case involving actress Jessica Mann ended in a mistrial after jurors could not reach a verdict; prosecutors later announced they would not pursue a fourth trial.

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• Alvin Bragg – Manhattan district attorney, whose office moved to dismiss the remaining charge against Weinstein and is not seeking a retrial.

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• Justice Curtis Farber – The judge who ordered the new trial after the 2024 appeal and will preside over the September 23 sentencing.

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• Miriam Haley – The production assistant who testified that Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in his SoHo apartment in 2006.

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The September 23 sentencing will close Weinstein’s New York criminal case, which has spanned two states. He remains incarcerated in New York while a separate resentencing is pending in California for a 2013 rape and assault of an actress in a Los Angeles hotel room; an appeals court upheld that conviction but vacated the original 16-year term. The outcomes of both sentences will determine the total time Weinstein will serve for the series of convictions that helped ignite the #MeToo movement.

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