The ex-producer is already serving a 23-year prison term for a sexual misconduct conviction in New York.
LOS ANGELES, USA – Harvey Weinstein, the onetime Hollywood titan who came to epitomize a culture of pervasive sexual misconduct by powerful men that ignited the MeToo movement, was sentenced on Thursday, February 23 to 16 years in prison for the 2013 rape of an actress in Los Angeles.
Weinstein, seated in a wheelchair in brown jail garb, professed his innocence and implored the judge, “I beg your mercy,” moments before she pronounced his sentence. The two-hour proceeding unfolded in the same Los Angeles courtroom where a jury in December found Weinstein guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration by a foreign object.
Addressing the court through tears and a trembling voice near the end of Thursday’s hearing, the woman said she had been a “very happy and confident woman” until Weinstein raped her. Then, “I lost my identity. I thought for sure that no one could love me. I was heartbroken, empty and alone,” she added, choking back sobs.
Defense counsel Mark Werksman asked that Weinstein get no more than three years for each of the three counts on which he was convicted, to be served concurrent to one another, arguing the charges stemmed from “one continuing sexual assault” that occurred in “one frenzied 10- to 15-minute ordeal,” rather than as three separate criminal acts.
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