

Gooding was among a growing list of Hollywood celebrities who have faced numerous allegations of sexual assault since the #MeToo movement.

As a result, he was permitted to withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a lesser, noncriminal harassment violation.īy then, authorities said more than 30 other women had come forward with separate allegations against Gooding, including groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior, which allegedly took place between 20. has pleaded guilty to one count of forcible touching in a protracted criminal case that accuses him of violating three different women.Īfter Gooding pleaded guilty last year to one count of forcible touching, a misdemeanor, the actor completed six months of alcohol and behavior-modification counseling. pleads guilty to forcible touchingĪctor Cuba Gooding Jr. The same woman was among the three who would have been allowed to testify at the lawsuit trial. In 2019, Gooding was arrested after a woman told police that he inappropriately touched her without her consent at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.
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The “Radio” actor has been a defendant in several other sexual assault cases, during which prosecutors have painted Gooding as a serial offender. After convincing her to join him, the lawsuit alleged that Gooding had raped her twice, pinning her to a bed, as she attempted to leave the room. The pair caught a cab together to the hotel, where Gooding invited the woman up to his room to change clothes. Gooding had invited her to join him and other friends for drinks at the Mercer hotel in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. The Jane Doe had met Gooding at a Greenwich Village VIP lounge in August 2013, according to the complaint. surrendered to New York authorities on Thursday following allegations that he groped a woman at a Manhattan nightclub over the weekend, according to the New York Police Dept. didn’t grope anyone - he’s just ‘frisky,’ his lawyer says
