After the verdict was announced, Weinstein was handcuffed and is being sent to jail. He will be sentenced on Wednesday, March 11.
The case against Weinstein was based on three allegations: rape of an aspiring actress in a New York City hotel room in 2013, forcibly performing oral sex on another woman at his apartment in 2006, and rape and forcibly performing oral sex on Sopranos actress Annabella Sciorra in her apartment in the mid-1990s.
Weinstein was arrested after more than 90 women came forward and accused him of sexual harassment and sexual assault in 2017. Many of the women’s claims about the Hollywood mogul had already reached the statute of limitations and thus he could not face charges from those accusations. In addition to dismantling his career in film, the public allegations helped spur the #MeToo movement, which encouraged women to speak out about their experiences with sexual harassment or assault.