Harvey Weinstein begs for leniency in rape prison sentence
Andrew Dalton
Los Angeles | A Los Angeles judge on Thursday (Friday AET) sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the 2013 rape and sexual assault of an Italian actor and model, furthering the fall of the onetime movie magnate who became a #MeToo magnet.
The prison term, along with the 23 years he received in 2020 for a similar conviction in New York, amounts to a likely life sentence for the 70-year-old.
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