NEW YORK — Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted on a sexual assault charge in a split verdict in Manhattan on Wednesday, a year after the verdict in his landmark 2020 trial was overturned.

Weinstein, 73, faced down three of his accusers, Miriam Haley, Kaja Sokola and Jessica Mann, over the course of an eight-week Manhattan Supreme Court trial. Each took the stand for several days to describe how the “Pulp Fiction” producer forced himself on them.

Mann accused him of raping her in 2013, while Haley and Sokola said Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on them in separate incidents in 2006.

After five days of deliberation, the seven women and five men on the jury found him guilty Wednesday of conducting a criminal sex act regarding Haley, but acquitted him on the same charge regarding Sokola. The jury had not yet reached a verdict on a charge of third degree rape regarding Mann.

The 6-foot-2 Weinstein, once a towering persona literally and figuratively in Hollywood, sat in a wheelchair throughout the trial. His health has taken a turn for the worse in recent months — he needed emergency heart surgery in September, and he was diagnosed with bone marrow cancer, according to multiple reports in October.

Before the verdicts were read, tensions in the jury room exploded into yelling and apparent threats Wednesday, with the jury’s foreman reporting that another juror told him, “I’ll meet you outside one day.”

The 73-year-old movie mogul’s lawyers demanded a mistrial, with Weinstein’s lawyer, Arthur Aidala saying, “There’s a crime going on in there, menacing and harassment.”

Weinstein himself offered a plea to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Curtis Farber, telling him, “Your honor, this is a profile in courage moment for you. We’ve heard threats. We’ve heard intimidation. We’ve heard fights. ... This is not right for me, the person that’s on trial here.”

He did not take the stand in his own defense.

Mann and Haley also testified in Weinstein’s 2020 trial, which ended in a guilty verdict. But last year, in a bombshell 4-3 decision, the New York State Court of Appeals overturned that conviction, saying the trial judge should have never allowed other women whose allegations were not included in the charges to testify against him and establish a pattern of predatory behavior.

Even though the trial testimony was limited to the three women’s allegations, Weinstein’s long history of serial sex abuse allegations, and the #MeToo movement that went viral after those allegations became public in October 2017, hung over the proceedings.

All three women testified about how they received money from a court-ordered victims’ settlement fund through the Weinstein Co. bankruptcy, and spoke about how the news accounts of Weinstein’s bad deeds spurred them to come forward. The trial judge, Curtis Farber, instructed jurors that they can’t use that information to determine Weinstein had a propensity for sexual assault.

Weinstein’s lawyers also brought up #MeToo, with defense lawyer Aidala accusing the women of chasing a payday as the movement picked up steam and seeking out attorneys like prominent sexual assault survivor advocate Gloria Allred, who he described as a “money lawyer.”

The disgraced movie mogul’s defense team painted the women as liars who manipulated Weinstein to “cut the line” in the entertainment industry, then cashed in with big civil lawsuit settlements.

Assistant D.A. Nicole Blumberg countered in her closing argument, though, that the accusers stayed silent for years, but found the strength to come forward after news accounts revealed Weinstein’s long history as a serial sexual abuser in October 2017.

Weinstein, who was serving a 23-year sentence before his 2020 conviction was overturned, is also serving a 16-year term after a Los Angeles jury found him guilty of rape and sexual assault in 2022. He has appealed that verdict.

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