A Manhattan judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein, who was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair just after 9:30, to 23 years in prison Wednesday for rape and sexual assault
Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images A Manhattan judge sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison Wednesday for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein, who was wheeled into the courtroom in a wheelchair just after 9:30 a.m., had faced a minimum of five years behind bars to a maximum of 29.
“It scarred me deeply mentally and emotionally,” Haleyi said in a statement to the court Wednesday morning. At one point of her address, Haleyi broke into tears. “What he did not only stripped me of my dignity as a human being and a woman … it diminished my confidence and faith in people, and my confidence and faith in myself.
“He gets off asserting power … if he senses someone is hesitant, he pounces,” Illuzzi also said, citing a quote from a person who knew Weinstein and spoke to prosecutors. Prosecutors had previously said in a March 6 letter that Weinstein “displayed a staggering lack of empathy, treating others with disdain and inhumanity” and “consistently advanced his own sordid desires and fixations over the well-being of others.”
His lead attorney, Donna Rotunno, said “when you look at the allegations in this courtroom, you see one very small side of who Mr. Weinstein really is.”Rotunno claimed that “every celebrity that you could think of” was “thanking Mr. Weinstein” for his assistance prior to his fall. She said there is a saying “that he’s tied with god, the number of times people thank him.”
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