Harvey Weinstein was taken to hospital for chest pains after receiving a guilty verdict in his sexual assault trial in New York.

The Harvey Weinstein verdict followed weeks of often harrowing and excruciatingly graphic testimony from a string of accusers.

In a note to the judge, jurors posed a question asking if it were permissible for them to be hung on two counts of predatory sexual assault.

The panel of seven men and five women will decide Harvey Weinstein's fate.

A key accuser at Harvey Weinstein's trial returned to the witness stand Tuesday and told the jurors: "I want the jury to know that he is my rapist."

“I couldn’t get away from him at all, let alone get away,” Mimi Haleyi said.

Prosecutor Meghan Hast told jurors the expert witness set to testify will dispel "myths" about how victims behave during and after sexual assaults.

'Sopranos' actor and alleged victim Annabella Sciorra is set to confront Weinstein as a key prosecution witness at his New York City rape trial on Thursday.

The defence said it wasn't specifically targeting young women, but didn't want jurors who were too young to understand the way men and women interacted in the early 1990s.

Court officials confirmed she was cut from the list of potential jurors, an expected development following the attention her presence in court generated.