Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison after being found guilty of two counts of rape and sexual assault in his rape trial earlier this year. He will also be formally registered as a sex offender.

"This is your first conviction, but not your first offense," New York Supreme Court Justice James Burke said during sentencing.

Last month, Weinstein was found guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree against Miriam Haley, and rape in the third degree against Jessica Mann. Those charges carried a maximum combined sentence of 29 years—he could also have been sentenced to a minimum of only five years. Weinstein was found not guilty of the two highest charges: predatory sexual assault in connection to the accusations by both women and actress Annabella Sciorra. Those charges carried a life sentence.

Weinstein's team has said they will appeal the jury's decision to convict him.

The disgraced mogul's attorneys argued earlier this week that their client would die behind bars if he was sentenced to anything more than five years, calling it “a de facto life sentence.” They wrote to Judge Burke, “The grave reality is that Mr. Weinstein may not even outlive that term."

“Mr. Weinstein was constantly maligned by the media, having long since been convicted in the court of public opinion,” they wrote. “His fall from grace has been historic, perhaps unmatched in the age of social media.”

Lead prosecutor Joan Illuzzi asked the judge today to sentence him to "the maximum or near the maximum" years in prison, and for them to be served consecutively, rather than concurrently. "Harvey Weinstein is a person who appeared to have it all," the prosector said. "He got drunk on the power. He saw no authority over him, no limit to what he could take. He could take what he wanted knowing that there was very little anybody could do about it. He held all the cards and played them well...He has been using and abusing people his entire life."

Both Mann and Haley delivered victim impact statements ahead of the sentencing as well. “What he did not only stripped me of my dignity…it diminished my confidence and faith in people,” said Haley.

Mann said that Weinstein’s crimes were “crimes against humanity — they were not just crimes against me.” She continued: “Rape is not just one moment of penetration. It is forever…the impact lasts a lifetime. I ask you to give me the gift of knowing exactly where Harvey is at all times.”

Weinstein, who didn't testify during the trial, did speak to the court during the hearing, comparing himself to Dalton Trumbo, the screenwriter who was blacklisted in the 1940s for being a member of the Communist Party. He said he believed "thousands of men are losing due process" during MeToo and that he was worried about the country.

His attorneys spoke after the sentencing about their displeasure with it:

In the weeks since the trial, Weinstein was first held at Bellevue Hospital, where he underwent a heart procedure last week to remove a blockage. He was then transferred to Rikers Island to await sentencing, where he reportedly fell and may have sustained a concussion.

Court papers that were unsealed on Monday revealed what Weinstein and his public relations team were doing in the days and months after it was reported that he had used his considerable power in Hollywood to sexually assault women. That included a "a self-pitying, unpublished letter" in which he said he was suicidal, an email in which he said that Jennifer Aniston (who he believed had complained about him) should be killed, and a scathing letter from his brother Bob Weinstein which said: “Just read u been abusing women, when u were in your twenties. Numbers are up to 82. U are world class, in that area. U deserve a lifetime achievement award for the sheer savagery and immorality and inhumanness, for the acts u have perpetrated."

Weinstein also reportedly sought help from wealthy friends including Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg.

Weinstein has also been charged in Los Angeles with one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint. He faces up to 28 years in prison if convicted on those charges.