The vice president was later interviewed remotely from a different room in the ABC studio in New York.

The tactics included isolating victims in hotel rooms or his studio, subjecting them to degrading rules and punishments and making video recordings of them having sex with him and others as a means to control them, prosecutors said.

He portrayed Stanford Blatch, a talent agent and the devoted and stylish best male friend to Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie for six seasons on the TV series and in its movie sequels.