Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant.

Victim Miriam Haley delivered an impact statement in court, saying the assault had had a "devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away."

Weinstein appeared in court in a wheelchair. He denied the allegations but apologised to "anyone I may have hurt by my actions."

Weinstein has already spent six years in prison while facing three trials in New York over rape and abuse allegations. He also holds a separate conviction for sex crimes in Los Angeles.

He was originally convicted and sentenced in the Haley case in 2020. In 2024, however, New York's highest court overturned that conviction, ruling that Weinstein had not received a fair trial. He was retried and convicted again for Haley's assault last year.

The 2020 trial heard testimony from three women: Haley, actress Jessica Mann, and model Kaja Sokola. Haley testified that Weinstein had assaulted her in a Manhattan apartment in 2006, and a jury found him guilty on that charge.

"I just thought, I have to stand up for myself. I have to stand up for the truth," Haley said of her decision to testify.

In that same trial, the jury found Weinstein not guilty of assaulting Sokola. No verdict was reached on an additional charge of rape related to Mann.