Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison for Los Angeles Rape Conviction

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Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 16 years in prison following his conviction in the Los Angeles rape trial that lasted five weeks.

The disgraced movie mogul's sentencing was handed down Thursday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where the 70-year-old was convicted in December.

The sentencing comes two months after the jury — comprised of eight men and four women — needed just over two weeks to deliberate.

In the end, the jury found Weinstein guilty on three of the seven counts he faced. He was found guilty on the charges of forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by a foreign object, and forcible rape of Jane Doe 1.

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