Cuba Gooding Jr.as soon as groped and forcibly kissed a girl whereas they had been attending the Sundance Movie Competition, ripping her tights and solely stopping when she bit him to flee, Manhattan prosecutors allege in court docket papers Monday.
She is one of seven new women who’ve come ahead alleging sexual misconduct by the 51-year-old film star, bringing the quantity of his accusers to 22.
He has solely been charged in three of the accusers’ alleged incidents, though prosecutors hope to introduce the opposite claims in court docket to show a sample of sexual abuse.
In January 2009, whereas attending the star-studded competition in Park Metropolis, Utah, Gooding allegedly invited a girl to a different occasion, and the pair then went to a live performance, the papers state.
When the lady informed the actor she was going to depart, he “appeared agitated” and supplied to stroll her out.
In a again, secluded hallway, he “started to kiss [her] with out consent” and when she pushed him away, noting Gooding was married, he “positioned his hand on her buttocks,” the papers state.
Then he pushed “his hand forcefully into the crotch space of her tights, inserting his fingers on her anus” and ripping her tights, prosecutors say.
The “Jerry Maguire” star solely let the lady go when she bit his cheek, “inflicting him to recoil.”
The allegation is one of a slew towards Gooding, courting again to 2003, and spanning six states: New York, California, Georgia, Utah, Texas and New Mexico.
In Atlanta in 2011, he groped a girl and, when she confronted him, mentioned one thing to the impact of: “I do know you wish to be an actress; I can destroy you,” the submitting states.READ Hong Kong police slammed for ‘crass’ tweet making light of tear gas
At Cafe Havana in Malibu, Calif., in 2016 he informed a girl and her buddy: “You guys are peeing on me tonight.” In December 2018, on the similar bar, he informed the identical girl: “You’re going to take a seat on my face, pee in my mouth and pee throughout me.”
A dozen women beforehand got here ahead about incidents Gooding hasn’t been charged in, together with one who mentioned he informed her to “Sit on my face, pee in my mouth” at a Los Angeles bar in 2011.
“Defendant’s previous habits reveals that he routinely approaches women whereas at bars or nightclubs with whom he has had restricted or no prior interplay, and touches them inappropriately,” the prosecutors argue within the papers.
Gooding faces six counts of misdemeanor sexual abuse and forcible touching involving the three accusers.Prosecutors are asking a decide to permit the extra 19 accusers’ allegations to be thought-about at trial.
Gooding’s lawyer, Mark Heller, mentioned in an announcement Monday that his consumer “has and does deny all allegations of felony conduct.”
“Sadly, folks come out of the woodwork, making false allegations towards Cuba, as usually instances occurs when a celeb is accused by the District Lawyer’s Workplace in a Public Discussion board,” Heller mentioned.
“The spurious, uncharged allegations supplied by the District Lawyer’s Workplace are so historic and outdated and missing in particulars and impairs the Defendant from defending towards them; thus, it demonstrates that the District Lawyer’s Workplace’s motive in introducing these inflammatory, uncharged allegations will not be for any probative worth, however to merely achieve a bonus towards the Defendant and prejudice the Jury towards the Defendant.” READ Mark Zuckerberg to testify in US over Libra cryptocurrency
Gooding is due again in court docket Jan.
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