Cuba Gooding Jr., on Wednesday, in New York court. Photo Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. plead guilty today wednesday april 13 forcibly touching a woman at a nightclub in New York in 2018.
The guilty plea came nearly three years after Oscar-winning actor Jerry Maguire was arrested in the casewho suffered some delay as his attorneys sought to reduce or dismiss the charges.
Cuba Gooding Jr., 54, who was accused of molesting three women at various nightclubs in Manhattan in 2018 and 2019, he pleaded guilty to only one of the charges.
He told the judge that he “kissed the waitress on the lips” without her permission at the LAVO club in New York.
Cuba Gooding Jr. in Manhattan Court, where a sexual abuse case involving him was filed. Photo Alec Sword/Pool by REUTERS
he will not go to jail
It is stated in the plea agreement of Gooding Jr. that he would not be imprisoned, but should follow a therapy for six months to withdraw your misdemeanor guilty plea and plead guilty to misdemeanor stalking.
Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman Police were told the actor touched her breasts without his permission at the Magic Hour Rooftop bar near Times Square.
A few months later, Gooding was charged with two more counts more women decided to report him for abuse. He has been accused of new cases of touching the butt of a waitress and making sexual comments on TAO Downtown and of force and inappropriate touching of a woman at LAVO nightclub, both in 2018.
Cuba Gooding Jr. arrived. this Wednesday the 13th in New York Court, where his sexual abuse case was addressed. Photo of AP/John Minchillo)
Dati, Gooding He was not guilty of number six. for petty offenses and denied all allegations of misconduct. His lawyers argued that prosecutors, fueled by the enthusiasm of the (hash) MeToo movement, were trying to turn “common acts” or mixing into crimes.
The judge ruled that if Gooding’s case went to trial, prosecutors would have to call two more women to testify about their abuse allegations against Gooding. Those women, whose complaints did not lead to criminal charges, were among 19 other plaintiffs whom prosecutors sought to call as witnesses.
A more serious case
Cuba Gooding Jr accused of raping a woman in New York in 2013. A judge issued a default judgment in July because the actor failed to respond to the lawsuit. Gooding has a lawyer fighting those allegations.
Cuba Gooding Jr. has approximately twenty complaints of sexual abuse. Photo REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
In total, Cuba Gooding Jr. received 22 complaints. Although only three of the accusations are formal, they confirm that the remaining arguments will serve as the pattern to prove the actor’s misconduct.
According to the testimonies appearing in the accusations, this type of situation “usually occurs in encounters with unknown women in bars and nightclubsthat he had no previous contact and he handled it inappropriately. ”The places where these allegedly happened were bars and clubs in New York, California, Georgia, Utah, Texas and New Mexico.
As revealed by some US media with access to documentation presented at the Manhattan (New York) justice, the actor forced a woman he kissed when he didn’t want to both participate in the Sundance Festival.
According to the complaint, Gooding Jr. met and gave a concert. and the woman and when she wanted to leave, he tore his socks and only stopped when the victim bit him on the cheek to escape.
moment of glory. Cuba Gooding Jr. in 1997, when he won an Oscar for “Jerry Maguire.”
Another woman accused the actor of holding him under his pants at a restaurant in Atlanta in 2011, while threatening him: “I know you want to be an actor and I can ruin you”. Another complainant says Gooding Jr. was touched twice. his owner, while at a restaurant in Malibu in 2016.
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