Weinstein hit with 16 years for rape in L.A.

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison on rape and sexual assault convictions in Los Angeles. The disgraced movie mogul is already serving a 23-year penalty from his New York trial.

Weinstein, 70, was found guilty in December on a rape charge and two counts of sexual assault involving an Italian model, identified under the pseudonym Jane Doe 1, who claimed the filmmaker assaulted her after a 2013 movie festival.

“Before that night I was a very happy and confident woman,” the accuser said during Thursday’s sentencing hearing. “I valued myself and the relationship I had with God. I was excited about my future.

Everything changed after the defendant brutally assaulted me. There is no prison sentence long enough to undo the damage.”

Jurors acquitted the Flushing-born Weinstein (photo) of charges involving another woman, and they failed to reach a verdict on counts stemming from the claims of two others. Weinstein originally faced 11 charges, four of which were dropped during the trial. He would’ve faced up to 60 years had he been convicted on the remaining seven.

Weinstein’s legal team argued Jane Doe 1 and another accuser in the trial made up their allegations, while the other two consented to their sexual encounters with him.

“I maintain that I’m innocent,”

Weinstein told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Lench during Thursday’s hearing. “I never raped or sexually assaulted Jane Doe 1.”

The accuser cried during Weinstein’s claim.

In 2020, Weinstein received his 23-year sentence after being convicted in New York on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women.

In August, New York’s Court of Appeals agreed to consider an appeal by Weinstein, likely to be heard sometime this year. The ex-filmmaker could be tried again on the Los Angeles charges that didn’t result in a verdict. Those situations need to be resolved before it’s determined where Weinstein will serve.

Weinstein didn’t testify during either trial. During the closing arguments in Los Angeles, prosecutor Marlene Martinez claimed Weinstein preyed on women under the guise of business meetings.

“For this predator, hotels were his trap,” Martinez said last year. “Confined within those walls victims were not able to run from his hulking mass. People were not able to hear their screams, they were not able to see them cower.”

Weinstein co-founded the production studio Miramax, which distributed Oscar-winning movies including “Shakespeare in Love,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Good Will Hunting.” Dozens of women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, making him a focal point of the #MeToo social movement that began in October 2017.

His sentencing Thursday came down hours after singer R. Kelly was sentenced in Chicago to 20 years behind bars for his convictions on charges of child pornography and enticement of minors for sex.

The artist, whose full name is Robert Kelly, will serve 19 of those years at the same time as his previous 30-year sentence in New York.