Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape and sexual assault at a Los Angeles trial.
A jury of eight men and four women reached the guilty verdict after nine days of deliberation at the second criminal trial of the 70-year-old.
Weinstein is two years into a 23-year sentence for a different rape and sexual assault conviction in New York.
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He was found guilty of rape, forced oral copulation and another sexual misconduct count involving a woman known as Jane Doe One.
The jury was unable to reach a decision on several counts, including charges involving Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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The jury said it was unable to reach verdicts in her allegations and the allegations of another woman. A mistrial was declared on those counts.
Weinstein was also acquitted of a sexual battery allegation made by another woman.
He faces up to 24 years in prison when he is sentenced.
Prosecutors and defence attorneys had no immediate comment on the verdict.
“It is time for the defendant’s reign of terror to end,” deputy district attorney Marlene Martinez said in the prosecution’s closing argument.
“It is time for the kingmaker to be brought to justice.”
Without forensic evidence or eyewitness accounts of assaults Weinstein’s accusers said happened, the case relied heavily on the stories and credibility of the four women at the centre of the charges.
The accusers included Mrs Newsom, a documentary filmmaker whose husband is Governor Gavin Newsom.
Her testimony of being raped by Weinstein in a hotel room in 2005 brought the trial its most dramatic moments.
Another was an Italian model and actor who said Weinstein appeared uninvited at her hotel room door during a 2013 film festival and raped her.
Lauren Young, the only accuser who testified at both Weinstein trials, said she was a model aspiring to be an actor and screenwriter who was meeting with Weinstein about a script in 2013 when he trapped her in a hotel bathroom, groped her and masturbated in front of her.
The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charges involving Ms Young.
A massage therapist testified that Weinstein did the same to her after getting a massage in 2010.
