BREAKING NEWS: Rapist Harvey Weinstein, 67, is sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes in landmark #MeToo case as six of his accusers hug each other and sob from front row of Manhattan courtroom
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced in New York to 23 years in prison for sex crimes in landmark #MeToo case.
The disgraced Hollywood producer was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years on the criminal sex act charge for forcibly performing oral sex on production assistant Mimi Haleyi in 2006.
He was sentenced to three years for third degree rape for the attack on Jessica Mann in 2013.
The judge ordered Weinstein to serve the sentences consecutively and sentenced him to five years post release supervision for each charge.
Weinstein, who maintained a blank face throughout, was wheeled out of the courtroom as soon as the sentence was handed down as his accusers sobbed and hugged each other.
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes in landmark #MeToo case
Jessica Mann, the woman Weinstein was convicted of raping, and Mimi Haleyi, the woman he’s accused of sexually assaulting, arrived in court on Wednesday ahead of his sentencing