Weinstein Accuser Says He Told Her, ‘This Is How the Industry Works’

Mr. Weinstein, 67, has pleaded not guilty to five felony counts, including rape and predatory sexual assault. Those charges stem from allegations that he forcibly performed oral sex on Miriam Haley, an assistant for “Project Runway,” in 2006 and raped another woman, Jessica Mann, in 2013. Ms. Haley told the jury on Monday that Mr. Weinstein had physically held her down and assaulted her in his Manhattan loft.

Last week, the actress Annabella Sciorra, best known for her role in “The Sopranos,” told the jury that in the winter months of either 1993 or 1994, Mr. Weinstein pushed his way into her own apartment in New York and raped her.

Ms. Sciorra’s account is mentioned in the indictment to support a charge of predatory sexual assault, which requires prosecutors to prove that Mr. Weinstein committed a serious sex crime against at least two women. The state’s statute of limitations bars her allegation from being charged on its own as a crime.

The trial has asked the jury of seven men and five women to consider complicated questions of consent and power dynamics in professional relationships. Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers have argued that all the sexual encounters were not only consensual but also transactional. The women, they have said, agreed to sex in the hope Mr. Weinstein might give them work.

Ms. Dunning, who is now a costume designer, said that Mr. Weinstein struck up a conversation with her at the now defunct PM Lounge where she waited tables, expressing an interest in her as an actress. They met several times to discuss her career, she said. He occasionally made inappropriate remarks.

But then, Mr. Weinstein invited Ms. Dunning to a boutique hotel in TriBeCa to meet people in the film industry. During a conversation in a bedroom, she said, he suddenly slipped his hand up her skirt and touched her genitals.

He quickly apologized, she recalled, and told her “not to make a big deal about it.” She said she never reported the incident to the police, because she wanted “to pretend it didn’t happen.” Later, she agreed to a second meeting at a Manhattan hotel where they were supposed to talk about movie scripts.