New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced on Wednesday (September 23) to 15 years in prison in New York for sexually assaulting former production assistant Miriam Haley, marking another chapter in a legal saga that became closely associated with the #MeToo movement.

The sentence follows a 2025 retrial in which a Manhattan jury again found Weinstein guilty of a first-degree criminal sex act involving Haley. The charge stemmed from an alleged 2006 assault at Weinstein's Manhattan apartment. The charge carried a maximum sentence of 25 years.

Weinstein has repeatedly denied sexually assaulting or raping anyone.

Weinstein was initially convicted in New York in 2020 of sexually assaulting Haley and rapin...