Cuba Gooding Jr. Faces Groping Charges From a 15th Accuser

Variety ^ | 10/31/2019 | Gene Maddaus

[simpson96]

Cuba Gooding Jr. has been indicted on two more charges of touching a woman inappropriately, bringing the total number of accusers to 15.

Gooding appeared in court in New York on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to the new allegations. According to the latest indictment, he is accused of touching a woman at Lavo, a nightclub on 58th Street, on the evening of Sept. 9, 2018.

Gooding now faces a total of six counts, related to three incidents, including three counts of forcible touching and three counts of third degree sexual abuse. All six counts are misdemeanors.

One of the three women, Natasha Ashworth, filed a civil suit on Oct. 21, accusing Gooding of sexual battery. Ashworth alleges that Gooding pinched her rear end when she was working at Tao nightclub on Oct. 24, 2018.

Gooding was originally charged in June with groping a woman at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar.

In addition to the three women whose charges are at the center of the case, another dozen women have come forward to allege that Gooding groped them, bit them or kissed them without consent at clubs and bars dating back to 2001. The prosecution has asked the court to allow those women to testify against Gooding in support of the underlying charges.

Gooding is due back in court on Jan. 22. The prosecution and defense are expected to file motions by Nov. 18, and responses to those motions are due on Dec. 9.

[simpson96]

[cuban leaf]

My wife went to Italy when she was in her twenties. She got her butt pinched a lot. She didn’t like it, but she never sued anybody.

[xp38]

Show me da pussy!!!

[a fool in paradise]

Kissed them without consent.

Shocking

[lee martell]

I see Cuba’s not smirking in the courtroom anymore.
This sh*t has gotten deep. Somebody, or a group of somebodies is after Cuba and wants to bring him down, financially, socially, just as with Bill Cosby. He must have made one enemy too many during his very long film career.

[deadrock]

[dfwgator]

What does he know about Hillary?

[Spruce]

Alcohol.

[OrangeHoof]

Art pre-imitates life.

Gooding played O.J. Simpson in the Fox movie “The People vs, O.J. Simpson”.

[lee martell]

More like, what does Cuba know about Harvey Weinstein and his ‘associates’.

[dfwgator]

He’s still way better than Ben Affleck.

[Kickass Conservative]

Wow, remember to keep your hands in your pockets when you go to a Club.

Next thing you know they will ban the playing of the Song “Baby It’s Cold Outside”...

[Buckeye McFrog]

My wife went to Italy when she was in her twenties. She got her butt pinched a lot.

I had a professor in college, an older British gent. He told us that his daughter had the same experience. Went to Italy and was constantly being pinched, whistled at and catcalled. He said she expressed her displeasure.

"Then again..." he said after a pause, ".....if she had gone to Italy and NOT been pinched and catcalled, I rather suspect that she would have been quite disappointed."

[Romans Nine]

So did he try to leave the plantation or something else criminal like that?

I sure hope the authorities don’t interview the girls I used to swim with back in grade school......

[bigbob]

Moving into the Biden league...

[cuban leaf]

Exactly. :)

[HamiltonJay]

That’s because no one that did it was rich and famous....

Punch my butt, sue you for $$$.... All the benefits of being a whore, without actually putting out.

[JohnnyP]

The three young women in the World Series prank bragged “we’re going to pinch a lot of c*nts”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVeF8JEaYdU&feature=youtu.be&t=5m48s

[Delta 21]

[Centaur]

A couple years back I defended a sexual harassment suit for a friend. His co-worker at a drug therapy group complained that he had given her a full body hug, and rubbed her shoulders provocatively and grabbed her hand over dinner. She wanted $40,000. In closing, I told the judge for $40,000 he could hug me all week. Suppressing a chuckle, he dismissed the case.