Live Harvey Weinstein Guilty Verdict: Updates and Reaction

“For the women who testified in this case, and walked through traumatic hell, you did a public service to girls and women everywhere, thank you,” Ms. Judd wrote on Twitter.

“Harvey Weinstein is now a convicted rapist,” the Italian actress and director Asia Argento, another early accuser, wrote on Instagram under a picture she posted of herself with another woman. “Two survivors cry and celebrate. Thank you God.”

The actress Rosanna Arquette, another accuser, wrote on Twitter, “Gratitude to the brave women who’ve testified and to the jury for seeing through the dirty tactics of the defense.”

Mr. Vance, the district attorney, said at a news conference immediately after Mr. Weinstein was remanded that the producer had “finally been held accountable for the crimes he committed.”

“The women, who came forward courageously and at great risk, made that happen,” Mr. Vance said. “Weinstein is a vicious serial sexual predator who used his power to threaten, rape, assault, trick, humiliate and silence his victims.”

Mr. Vance then listed the names of the six women who testified during the trial — Dawn Dunning, Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, Annabella Sciorra, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young — as well as two of the prosecutors, Meghan Hast and Joan Illuzzi.

“Eight women who have changed the course of history in the fight against sexual violence,” he said. “These are eight women pulled our justice system into the 21st century by declaring that rape is rape and sexual assault is sexual assault, no matter what.”

He added: “To the survivors of Harvey Weinstein, I owe, and we all owe, an immense debt to you.”

In 2015, Mr. Vance declined to prosecute Mr. Weinstein after an Italian model accused the producer of groping her breasts during a business meeting at his office in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood.

Weinstein is also facing charges in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles case is based on the accounts of two unidentified women, who have accused him of attacking them — just a day apart — in February 2013.

One of the women, an Italian model and actress, has told prosecutors that Mr. Weinstein raped her in the bathroom of a Beverly Hills hotel after she met him at a film festival.

The next day, the other woman has said, Mr. Weinstein invited her and another woman to his room in a West Los Angeles hotel after meeting them in the restaurant downstairs. There, prosecutors said, Mr. Weinstein trapped his victim in a bathroom, grabbed her breasts and masturbated.

Weinstein was facing five charges in Manhattan.

Six women testified at trial that he had sexually assaulted them, though Mr. Weinstein had faced criminal charges in connection with only two of them. The others were allowed to testify to establish a pattern of behavior.

Ms. Mann and Ms. Haley both acknowledged that they continued to see Mr. Weinstein after the alleged assaults and later had consensual sex with him, testimony that complicated the prosecution’s case.

One of those witnesses was Ms. Sciorra, who says she was raped by Mr. Weinstein nearly 30 years ago in her Manhattan apartment. She was called to support the charges of predatory sexual assault, which require proving that a defendant attacked at least two victims. The jury ultimately did not convict Mr. Weinstein on those counts.

The three other women were permitted to testify to bolster the prosecution’s contention that Mr. Weinstein engaged over time in a pattern of sexually abusive behavior.

None of the four women’s accounts could be formally charged as crimes on their own because the alleged attacks were too old to prosecute under New York’s statute of limitations.

Prosecutors had described Mr. Weinstein as a clever predator who kept his victims close to control them, using his power over their careers in the film industry as leverage.

But defense lawyers had said the women had willingly had sex with Mr. Weinstein to further their careers and only years later, after he had been accused in news reports of sexual harassment, began to remember their encounters with him as nonconsensual.

Here’s a timeline of the path toward a verdict.

Accusations of sexual misconduct and assault against Mr. Weinstein have swirled for decades in New York and Los Angeles. The trial in Manhattan was only the latest step in a lengthy saga.

Mr. Weinstein had avoided prosecution in connection with an alleged groping incident in 2015, and was indicted in New York in 2018 only after scores of women came forward to accuse him in the media.

In all, six women testified against Mr. Weinstein at his trial:

Annabella Sciorra testified that after a dinner party in the winter of either 1993 or 1994, Mr. Weinstein barged in to her Manhattan apartment and raped her. The alleged attack was too old to be prosecuted separately as rape under New York law.

Jessica Mann testified that Mr. Weinstein injected his genitals with an erection medication and raped her in a hotel room in Midtown Manhattan. He was charged with first- and third-degree rape, and predatory sexual assault involving her allegations.

Dawn Dunning accused Mr. Weinstein of touching her genitals in a hotel room in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood.

Tarale Wulff testified that Mr. Weinstein pulled her into a secluded stairwell in a lounge in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood and masturbated.

Lauren Young told jurors that the producer pulled down her dress, groped her breasts, masturbated and ejaculated onto the floor in a hotel room in Los Angeles.

Ms. Young’s account, like those of Ms. Dunning’s and Ms. Wulff’s, were allowed in an effort to show the producer’s history of abuse, prosecutors said.