Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 16 additional years for LA rape conviction

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Content warning: this article discusses rape and sexual assault.Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 additional years in prison, three months after he was convicted on three counts of rape and sexual assault.The disgraced film producer is currently serving a 23-year sentence for a 2020 conviction of two counts of rape and sexual assault in New York.

With his new sentence, his remaining prison time has nearly doubled.In December, Weinstein was found guilty on three counts of rape and sexual assault against  a European model and actor who testified anonymously as “Jane Doe #1”.

He was acquitted, elsewhere in the trial, of assaulting another woman, a massage therapist, and failed to reach a verdict on whether he raped or assaulted two other women, including actor and film producer Jennifer Siebel Newsom.During the sentencing on Thursday (February 23), which had been pushed back from last month, Jane Doe #1 wept in court as she described the impact of being assaulted by Weinstein in 2013.“Ten years later, the effects of this rape are still raw and difficult to discuss.

I have been carrying this weight, this trauma. This irrational belief that it was my fault,” she said. “There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.” [via The Guardian]The woman said that the way Weinstein had looked at her in the courtroom during the trial had shown her that he was “the exact same man who raped me all those years ago”, and that he had “ripped out my soul and has no regret”.Weinstein had pleaded not guilty to all charges in both of his criminal trials and has consistently denied accusations of rape and sexual assault.