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New York's Case Against Harvey Weinstein
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The Harvey Weinstein New York case centers on allegations of sexual assault, culminating in a mistrial in 2026. As of now, Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a separate assault.
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Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 15 years in prison on September 23, 2026, for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley, a former production assistant.
19 sources · Times Colonist, Newsday
DA Alvin Bragg drops Mann rape charge
De-escalationManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that the office would no longer pursue a retrial of Harvey Weinstein on a third-degree rape charge concerning Jessica Mann, following her decision not to testify again.
12 sources · USA Today, Ndtv
Judge declares mistrial in Mann rape case
De-escalationHarvey Weinstein's latest New York rape trial ended in a mistrial after the jury was deadlocked on whether he raped actress Jessica Mann in 2013. The jury, which deliberated for three days, reported an 9-3 split in favor of acquittal.
6 sources · New York Times, CBS News
Jessica Mann resumed her testimony in Harvey Weinstein's retrial, recounting how Weinstein allegedly trapped and raped her in a New York hotel room in 2013.
20 sources · New York Times, Washington Post
Jury selection for Harvey Weinstein's third rape trial began in New York City, where jurors will decide on the charge of third-degree rape against Jessica Mann, stemming from events in a hotel room in 2013.
7 sources · CBS News, Abc7ny
Covered by 2 outlets
5 sources · Daily Mail Online, New York Times
- Origin Jan 8, 2026
The story so far
As of September 23, 2026
Harvey Weinstein has now been sentenced in New York to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley in 2006. The sentence follows a retrial in which a new jury again found him guilty on the Haley count after his 2020 New York conviction was thrown out by the state’s top court in 2024. Prosecutors had asked for 20 years; the judge imposed 15 on September 23, 2026.
The only unresolved New York charge — an allegation that Weinstein raped Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 — is no longer part of the case. After two juries deadlocked on that count, most recently 9–3 toward acquittal in May, and after Mann told prosecutors she would not testify again, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ended plans for a fourth trial in June. That charge was a lower‑level felony carrying up to four years, less than the time Weinstein has already served, and it no longer affects his custody.
What determines his future custody now are two numbers: the 15‑year New York term for the Haley assault and his Los Angeles case, where a 2022 conviction for raping an Italian actor was upheld on appeal but sent back for resentencing after the judge there relied on New York convictions that were later vacated. He will serve the California sentence after the New York term. At 74, and already more than six years into confinement, Weinstein remains in prison while his California sentence is recalculated.
This story has turned from a broad test of #MeToo‑era evidence rules into a narrower question of sentence length and sequencing. The 2024 reversal barred some pattern testimony, but a retrial still produced a guilty verdict on the Haley assault; by contrast, repeating the Mann charge twice more could not produce a unanimous jury and the witness stepped back. Those two facts explain where the case now stands: Weinstein’s prison time rests on the sustained Haley conviction in New York and the upheld Los Angeles verdict, not on the dropped Mann count.
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