Harvey Weinstein will, as his defense team admitted in a Hail Mary plea this week, die in prison.

Until then, may he rot.

As Justice James Burke said to Weinstein at sentencing: “This is your first conviction, but not your first offense.”

To anyone who still believes that Weinstein is a scapegoat for a #MeToo culture run amok, consider just some of the documents, one thousand in all, unsealed by the court yesterday.

Here’s Harvey — as almost everyone still calls him, like he’s some harmless, collegial old codger — secretly tracking down accuser Annabella Sciorra’s private email and cell number in August 2017, two months before he was exposed as a rapist, in a clear attempt to intimidate her.

Here he is in July 2017, hiring private investigators to dig into people on his vast so-called “red flag list” — people he worried were talking to reporters, including Sciorra.

An email, in part, to his crisis manager on October 26, 2017, in response to questions posed by Ronan Farrow regarding Sciorra’s claims: “This was consensual or deny it.”

Huh? It can only be one or the other.

Yet after all this strategizing, after desperate form-letter emails to such titans as Ron Burkle (he of “Air F—k One” infamy), Jeff Katzenberg, Mike Bloomberg, Lloyd Blankfein, Ron Meyer, Steve Rattner, Bernard and Delphine Arnault, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and Ted Sarandos — slugged, Freudian-slip style, as “Hail Mary dics” — after hiring ex-Mossad to stalk and spy on his victims, further victimizing them — Weinstein stood in court at sentencing and gave his greatest performance yet: As a bumbling old man who merely misread some signals, who never really had any power, and who was finding this brave new world, in which women say “no,” so very confusing.

“First of all, to all the women who testified, you may have given the truths … I have a great deal of remorse for all of you,” he said. “We are going through this crisis right now” — meaning #MeToo — “in this country. The movement basically started with me” — there’s the real Weinstein, never missing a moment to self-aggrandize — “now there are thousands of men being accused.”

He described his experiences with his accusers as “wonderful” and said he “wasn’t about power.”

Rape is all about power.

Donna Rotunno, Weinstein’s lawyer, seemed to be trolling the justice system and all right-thinking people when, moments later, she called Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence “obnoxious” and “obscene,” words most applicable to her client and her own victim-blaming of sexual assault survivors.

New York City is glad to see the back of her.

Weinstein’s sentence, just six years shy of the maximum, takes into account “prior bad acts” as documented in yesterday’s unsealing. In these pages, prosecutors cited incidents they could not raise at trial, including a rape accusation going back to 1978 and the litany of women, well over 80 in total, who have relayed remarkably similar stories of predation and assault over the years, in various cities, states and countries.

Of his guilt here, there is no doubt.

But yesterday’s document dump also proves that Harvey Weinstein, his pleas in court to the contrary, is a psychopath and a sadist who has never squandered an opportunity to harm someone.

There are some real gems here, the testimony of over 100 people who describe him, in the prosecution’s summary, as a “vindictive, abusive individual who has destroyed much more than he has created in his years on this earth.”

To wit:

In 1998, Weinstein stole a friend’s social security number and used that to apply for and get a United States passport.

He bragged about having people killed.

He forced his assistant out of a car and left him on the side of the road. He abandoned this same assistant in a foreign country and threatened to harm him physically.

He threatened to “cut off” another man’s “genitals with gardening shears” — and knowing what we do about Weinstein’s own deformed genitalia, it’s not hard to see where he got that idea.

One witness, a former longtime employee, told prosecutors Weinstein possessed “zero compassion” nor “empathy” and was a “despicable, demeaning, coercive, threatening” boss who would “make you do things you don’t want to do.”

Another former employee told prosecutors that back in the late 1980s, Weinstein “threw a table full of food on top of him” during a morning meeting at the Cannes Film Festival.

In this May 25, 2018 file photo, Harvey Weinstein, center, listens during a court proceeding in New York during his arraignment on rape and other charges. Steven Hirsch Harvey Weinstein's lawyer Donna Rotunno speaks to the press outside of court on July 11, 2019. Matthew McDermott Harvey Weinstein arrives at court for the sixth day of his rape and sexual assault trial. Matthew McDermott Dawn Dunning, right, and Mimi Haley, left, arrive at court for Harvey Weinstein sentencing today. Steven Hirsch The plaintiffs' attorney Gloria Allred speaks after disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is found guilty on multiple charges on February 24, 2020. Matthew McDermott Harvey Weinstein arrives at court on January 8, 2020. Matthew McDermott Mimi Haley arrives at court today for Harvey Weinstein sentencing. Steven Hirsch Rosie Perez, left, and Annabella Sciorra, right, arrives at court today for Harvey Weinstein sentencing. Steven Hirsch Ellen Barkin flips the bird as she arrives at Manhattan Court to attend the trial of Harvey Weinstein, January 23, 2020. Steven Hirsch Harvey Weinstein arrives at court on February 6, 2020. Matthew McDermott Harvey Weinstein's walker is brought out of court after the jury found Weinstein guilty on multiple charges on February 24, 2020. Matthew McDermott Ad Up Next Close Trump addressing nation on coronavirus pandemic President Trump said Wednesday that he would talk to Americans... 11 View Slideshow Back Continue Share this: Facebook

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Yet another witness said Weinstein once punched his brother Bob so hard he was left unconscious and bleeding profusely.

Some of Bob’s emails to Harvey were also unsealed yesterday and are clear on one point: Bob, like Harvey’s two ex-wives and three adult children, immediately believed the women.

This exchange took place over November 1-2 in 2017, while Harvey was doing damage control in rehab.

Header, from Harvey:

Re: “U called into my 12 steps meeting All agreed U should not call again”

Bob: “What idiot doesn’t turn their phone off during a twelve step meeting. U are a liar. Pathological. I would never believe a word u ever say. Sure all those 82 women had nothing better to do than have consensual sex with u and then out themselves and accuse u for sexual abuse … Surprised that people are angry at you. What did you ever do wrong, except bully and abuse people your whole life and now say crap like everyone makes mistakes. U have hurt so many innocent women … The saddest part of all of this is that u will rationalize, minimize and compartmentalize it all away. U are so delusional that u even right now think this letter is good evidence for you … Yes, poor victim Harvey. Please put it in court papers, NY Times and see how people view this letter.”

Harvey: “Keep your word stay away.”

Bob: “OMG. Keep your word. Stay away. Did u listen to any woman and stay away when u abused them … F—k u Harvey Weinstein. I pray there is a real hell. That’s where u belong. I suppose being u is its own hell if you could feel it, but no chance. OJ didn’t kill Nicole Simpson and u had consensual sex with all those poor victimized women.”

Harvey Weinstein, simply put, is a common criminal who, like so many of his ilk do, thought he was the smartest person in the room. He treated his own trial with contempt, as though he were still a mogul multitasking through a business meeting, repeatedly defying explicit orders to stop texting in court.

Also: Who could he have been texting? Clearly the only people still speaking to him are his lawyers.

And in the middle of this most consequential trial, Weinstein brazenly threw a Super Bowl party with “a lot of women,” then complained to them that the #MeToo movement had “gone too far.”

The next day, as his victim Jessica Mann repeatedly broke down on the stand, so distraught that the judge eventually had her removed, Weinstein fell asleep. More than once.

You can bet he’s awake now.

“I am totally confused,” Weinstein said during sentencing.

No doubt. None of his tricks worked. He couldn’t intimidate these women from testifying. He couldn’t convince the press or general public that he was suddenly really sick. His walker became a meme, his claims of near-blindness compared to Bill Cosby’s pathetic pre-trial ploy.

Nor could Weinstein blackmail the prosecutors or judge or jury, or threaten to maim their loved ones, his lifelong m.o. Moguls, politicians and movie stars, people he admittedly cared about more than his own children, have deserted him.

Stripped of his power in a fancy blue suit, Harvey Weinstein is heading to a fate long overdue, never again able to tell anyone the word he forever ignored: “No.”