Weinstein sentenced to 16 years for L.A. rape

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench on Thursday sentenced disgraced former film producer Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison for raping a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel in 2013. Weinstein already is serving a 23-year sentence in New York for his 2020 conviction for sexually assaulting other women. Lench ruled he can't serve the sentences concurrently, essentially assuring that Weinstein, who is in poor health, will spend the rest of his life in prison. The L.A. jury found him guilty of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, and sexual penetration with a foreign object. The woman, identified as Jane Doe 1, had called for the longest sentence possible, saying no sentence would be "long enough to erase the damage."