Harvey Weinstein has been charged with raping and sexually assaulting two women and sexually assaulting two others.
A jury found Weinstein guilty of one count of rape after 44 witnesses in Los Angeles gave evidence for a month.
He was found not guilty of restraining another woman.
The jury was also unable to reach a verdict on charges related to two other women.
Currently serving two years of a 23-year sentence in New York on rape and sexual assault charges, Weinstein He has been behind bars during his latest trial.
The Los Angeles trial was widely considered iconic – but given that producers are Granted leave to appeal his conviction in New York.
The 70-year-old has been charged with crimes against four witnesses who testified.
Three of the women — a model, a model/actress and a massage therapist — testified anonymously.
Filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom, has waived her right to anonymity.
A jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges related to Newsom.
Four other women unrelated to the allegations also told the court that Weinstein sexually assaulted them.
Here are key moments from the trial:
defense
Weinstein’s lawyers said during the trial that the prosecution case rested entirely on asking them to trust women who had evidence that they were not trustworthy.
In his closing statement, Alan Jackson said: “‘Take my word for it.’ Five words sum up the prosecution’s entire case.”
Weinstein’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, argued that the prosecution case was “looking in the dark.”Photo: Associated Press
He argued that everything else prosecutors put forward was “smoke and mirrors”.
Mr Jackson urged jurors not to look at the drama and emotion of the four women’s testimony, but to focus on the factual evidence.
He said jurors were asked to “believe us because we’re crazy and believe us because we cried,” adding: “Well, anger doesn’t prove the truth. Tears don’t prove the truth either.”
Mr Jackson said the story of Weinstein being accused of sexually assaulting two women on consecutive days in 2013 “simply didn’t happen”.
Defense lawyers also said the alleged rape and battery of two other women in 2005 and 2010 were “100% consensual” encounters, which the women engaged in for professional advancement and were later “eager to relabel” as involuntary of.
“These are the women Harvey had a transactional relationship with and transactional sex,” he said.
Mr Jackson argued that when the events took place in 2005 and 2010, the women were willing to trade sex for favors or status, but in the #Me too The New York Times and The New Yorker lamented the explosion of coverage around Weinstein in 2017.
“They played the game. They now unequivocally hate it,” he said. “But then? Before the prank on Mr. Weinstein started in 2017?”
He emphasized the importance of the judge’s instruction that if jurors find that anything materially said by a witness is untrue, they should consider disbelieving everything the witness said.
prosecution
Prosecutors closed the case calling Weinstein a “predator” and a “degenerate rapist.”
Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez highlighted similarities between the plaintiffs’ testimony.
“They all described the same behavior from the same person,” she said.
After arranging a meeting with a woman at a hotel, he would find ways to get them to his suite, where he would go from “charming and flattering to aggressive and demanding”.
Ms Martinez said: “For this predator, the hotel was his trap.
“Confined within these walls, the victim was unable to escape his massive body.
“People can’t hear them screaming or see them cringe.”
She urged jurors to complete Weinstein’s fall from grace by convicting him in California.
She said: “It is time for the accused to end his reign of terror.
“It’s time to bring Kingmaker to justice.”
Prosecutors call Weinstein a ‘predator’ and a ‘degenerate rapist’
“I was in tears and a little bit hysterical”
Weinstein’s first accuser, a model and actress who was at a film festival in Los Angeles when she was raped by a producer in 2013, told the court he knocked on her hotel room door and she let him in .
She said Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on a hotel bed. “I was in tears and kind of hysterical,” she said. “I kept saying ‘no, no, no’.”
She said she was physically afraid of Weinstein because Weinstein weighed 100 pounds or more than she did, and considered running, hitting or biting him.
She said she had stopped physically resisting when Weinstein took her to the bathroom and raped her, though she still protested verbally. “I would freeze up, like my body wouldn’t work.”
He was found guilty of three offenses including rape.
woman testifies a second time
Only one woman who gave evidence during the New York trial testified in Los Angeles. The aspiring screenwriter model met with Weinstein to discuss a script she was working on in 2013, the court heard.
She described Weinstein as a “monster” and said he took her into the bathroom, quickly removed his suit, took a brief shower, and walked out to prevent her from leaving.
“I’m disgusted,” she said. “I’ve never seen such a big guy naked.”
She said she leaned against the sink and turned away from him. He then unfastened her skirt and fondled her with one hand while masturbating with the other, the court heard.
The jury did not reach a verdict on that count.
Masseuse tells court ‘I’m in shock’
A massage therapist accused Weinstein of sexually assaulting her in 2010, when she was 28, when he hired her to come to his hotel room for treatment.
While she was washing her hands in the bathroom after the massage, she said Weinstein came in, blocked the door and started masturbating in front of her.
She began to cry as she told the court: “I was terrified.” Weinstein blocked the door, pushed her against a wall and groped her breasts before finishing, the court heard.
“I was in shock. I felt like I was frozen, I felt paralyzed,” she said.
The jury found Weinstein not guilty of sexual assault.
Filmmaker cries as he recounts alleged rape
Jennifer Siebel Newsom.Photo: Associated Press
Siebel Newsom, 48, told the court in an emotional deposition that she was 31 when she was allegedly attacked by Weinstein at a business meeting in 2005. She sees it as a business meeting trying to build her career.
After two-and-a-half hours on the witness stand, she told the court in tears that she unexpectedly found herself alone with the Hollywood mogul in a hotel suite.
Asked to describe how she felt after Weinstein came out of the bathroom in a robe and started touching her while he masturbated, she said: “Horror! Horror! I’m shaking. I’m like a rock, I’m cold. It’s me Worst nightmare.”
Ms Siebel Newsom said she told Weinstein “that’s not why I’m here” as she physically tried to back off.
A jury did not reach a verdict on those counts.