Cuba Gooding Jr. in a file photo (EFE/EPO/Jefferson Siegel)
The actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to one charge on Wednesday groped a woman. The Oscar-winning “Jerry Maguire” star has been accused of molesting three different women at Manhattan nightspots in 2018 and 2019.
Natasha Ashworth denounced in October 2019 that a year earlier, while working in a bar, The actor tried to touch her butt several times.
The only guilty plea came nearly three years after Gooding’s arrest in the case he witnessed several delays as her attorneys attempted to reduce or dismiss the charges. He was due to face at least two trials, with an April 2020 hearing canceled as coronavirus cases rose in New York and the state halted most court business.
Gooding, 54, was arrested in June 2019 after a woman told police that the American actor Touched her breast at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge without her consent near Times Square.
A few months later, Two other women came forward and accused him of sexual abuse. The new charges allege he pinched a waitress after making a sexually suggestive comment to her at TAO Downtown and violently inappropriately touched a woman at LAVO New York nightclub, both in 2018.
The American actor was also accused last August of twice raping a woman in a New York hotel on the same day in 2013.
A total of 30 women have claimed to have been sexually assaulted in various ways by Gooding Jr. in events spanning more than a decade .
Gooding had previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor charges and denied all charges against him. His lawyers have argued that overzealous prosecutors, caught up in the passion of the #MeToo movement, are trying to convert “Common gestures“ or misunderstandings in sex crimes.
The judge had ruled that if Gooding’s case had gone to trial, prosecutors could have called two other women to testify about their allegations that Gooding also raped them. These women, whose allegations resulted in no criminal charges, were among 19 other accusers whom prosecutors wanted to call as witnesses.
In addition to the criminal case Gooding is accused in a lawsuit of raping a woman in New York City in 2013. After a judge issued a default judgment in July that the artist failed to respond to the lawsuit, the actor hired an attorney.
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