Weinstein was sentenced in a Los Angeles court, where a jury found him guilty in December of rape, forced oral copulation and sexual penetration with a foreign object.
The charges stem from an assault on a former model and actress, identified at trial as Jane Doe 1, at a Los Angeles hotel in February 2013.
Weinstein, the powerful co-founder of Miramax Films, an American film production and distributor, will serve the sentence after completing a 23-year sentence for a countess for sexual misconduct in New York.
The allegations against Weinstein helped fuel the #MeToo movement, which has encouraged women to speak out against sexual harassment and abuse by powerful men in the media, politics and other arenas. The movement, which went viral on social media in 2017, seeks to break a culture of silence that has long allowed such behavior to go unpunished.
Weinstein, who produced “Pulp Fiction,” “Shakespeare in Love” and other hit independent films, has said all of his sexual encounters were consensual, pleading not guilty in the Los Angeles case.
The jury acquitted Weinstein of charges related to a second alleged victim and failed to reach a unanimous verdict on charges stemming from two other accusers.
One of them, documentary filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, now the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, had revealed that she was the alleged rape victim referred to in court records as Jane Doe 4.
Defense lawyers argued that the women had voluntarily had sex with Weinstein because they believed it would advance their careers, as part of what they said was a pervasive “casting couch” culture in the film industry.
In two of the cases, they claimed that the alleged sexual contact was fabricated.