Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to more than two decades in prison after being convicted on first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape charges last month.
Judge James Burke sentenced Weinstein to 23 years in prison on Wednesday morning. The judge also warned him before announcing the sentence that he will have to formally register as a sex offender moving forward, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
For the first-degree count of criminal sexual act, Weinstein was sentenced to 20 years in prison with an additional five years of supervised release. He was handed three years behind bars for the third-degree rape conviction.
The case against the former movie producer was based on three allegations: raping an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013, forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006, and raping and forcibly performing oral sex on Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra in her apartment in the mid-1990s.
“Thousands of men are losing due process. I’m worried about this country,” Weinstein said in the courtroom, according to the Associated Press, arguing that men are being accused of “things that none of us understood.”
“I’m totally confused. I think men are confused about these issues,” he added.
More than 90 women — including actresses Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow, Salma Hayek, Uma Thurman, and dozens more — came forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual assault and sexual harassment. Their stories sparked the #MeToo campaign in which women began speaking up about sexual misconduct in Hollywood and other industries, holding perpetrators accountable.
Weinstein also faces charges in Los Angeles following a January indictment just after the first trial got underway.
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