Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape | Jessica Mann | Lauren Marie
Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for sex crimes in a landmark #MeToo case that ended with six of his accusers sobbing and hugging each other from the front row of the courtroom.
The disgraced Hollywood producer, 67, was sentenced on Wednesday in Manhattan criminal court following his sexual assault and rape convictions last month.
Weinstein was sentenced 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.
Judge James Burke, who oversaw his trial, ordered Weinstein to serve the sentences consecutively and sentenced him to five years post release supervision for each charge. It is not clear when he will be eligible for parole.
Weinstein, who maintained a blank face throughout and did not visibly react, was wheeled out of the courtroom as soon as the sentence was handed down as his accusers sobbed and hugged each other.
Just moments earlier, Weinstein broke his courtroom silence with a rambling statement in which he said he felt 'remorse for this situation' but said he was perplexed by the case and the #MeToo climate in which it unfolded.
He did not apologize to his victims.
'I feel remorse for all of the men who are going through this fight,' Weinstein said, adding he was worried about 'thousands of men' being denied due process in the #MeToo era.