Cuba Gooding Jr. pleads guilty to one count of forcible touching
This news comes three years after the actor initially pleaded not guilty
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Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to one count of forcible touching, after being accused by three women of groping them in 2018 and 2019. Per Deadline, the actor made the decision on Wednesday in the Manhattan Supreme Court as a plea deal to avoid serving time in prison.
As previously reported, the initial allegation of forcible touching came in 2019, when a woman accused Gooding of groping her at a bar. At the time, the actor denied the accusation, placing the blame on the woman’s alleged mental instability. Then, an additional charge came from a different woman alleging a similar incident. Soon after, twelve other women testified that the actor touched them inappropriately. He wasn’t charged for all incidents; just the initial one and two of the additional cases. Gooding Jr. still pleaded not guilty, but then seven more women came forward with allegations.
At the time, Gooding’s lawyer denied the claims, saying, “The spurious, uncharged allegations offered by the District Attorney’s Office are so ancient and outdated and lacking in details and impairs the Defendant from defending against them; thus, it demonstrates that the District Attorney’s Office’s motive in introducing these inflammatory, uncharged allegations is not for any probative value, but to merely gain an advantage against the Defendant and prejudice the Jury against the Defendant.”
This news also comes three months after Gooding asked a judge to dismiss a separate $6 million lawsuit from a woman alleging the actor raped her twice in 2013. Per Reuters, the woman sued him in August 2020, claiming Gooding raped her in a hotel room in SoHo after meeting at a restaurant.
At the time, Gooding’s lawyers said that the woman’s attempt at invoking the statute of limitations under a New York City law protecting survivors of “gender-motivated violence violated Gooding’s due process rights under the U.S. and New York state constitutions.”
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So that’s why he was such a good OJ.
I thought it was the mouthful of pulp.
Cuba BADDING.
Spam Smelliott!
“invoking the statute of limitations”. I presume you mean “revoking”, right? Normally it’s the defendant who invokes the statute of limitations as a bar to prosecution.
Does Volunteer Proofreader have multiple accounts?
Yes because only one of us is bothered by sloppy writing around here.
He is but one man.
Looks like it’s an allegation of rape in 2013. The woman is presumably invoking an extended statute of limitations for sexual assault since she’s suing in 2020. The New York City law “projecting” survivors of gender-motivated violence is interesting. It’s weird, but I guess survivors have to be shot out of cannons?
Please post a trigger warning for rape on this post. I’m sure others will appreciate it too. Thank you.
With all due respect, if a headline features the phrase “pleads guilty to forcible touching” and you’re likely to be triggered by descriptions of sexual assault, then that article may not be for you.
He shoplifted the pootie.
Apparently Cuba does have that kind of range
I wish this happened more often
Damn, didn’t even know about this one. So many of these stories seem to slip through the cracks, at least for me.
He’s been on such a sustained downhill drunken slide for years.
Best kind…
Did they give him a Grammy yet?
No no, that’s Tuba Gooding Jr., who even if he had the inclination to assault someone would be physically unable to do so due to the restricting nature of the sousaphone.
I assume SOMEBODY’S going to get slapped.
I was expecting way more bad-taste jokes about showing him the money.
Can’t wait to see him winning a Grammy in a couple of years then.
Dude’s been creeping for years. First time I heard of it was from some Glacier Park employees the year after he shot that movie with Robin Williams in 96-97
For the life of me I cannot remember the comedian who reviewed “Radio,” when he wrote: There are three things I hate about this movie: Cuba.Gooding. Jr. Four if you count his teeth.”