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has avoided a civil rape trial due to start today after reaching a last-minute legal settlement with the woman who claimed the Oscar-winner assaulted her in a hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The Jerry Maguire star faced allegations that he met the woman at a restaurant in Manhattan, persuaded her to join him at the Mercer Hotel in the Soho section of Manhattan and stop at his room so he could change clothing. She said in her lawsuit Gooding then The encounter occurred in 2013. The trial was to start Tuesday with jury selection in New York federal court.
The woman had proceeded anonymously until last week, when Judge Paul A. Crotty ruled that she would have to reveal her name at trial. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant — and that she bragged to others afterwards that she had sex with a celebrity.
That evidence was never made public.The trial was scheduled to begin at 10am on Tuesday, but at 10:24am it was announced in legal documents that ‘the parties have resolved the matter.’ The exact terms of the settlement have not been released. Cuba Gooding Jr.
pictured in court in January 2020 The Mercer Hotel in New York City where the woman said that rape occurred
The woman alleged that Gooding brought her to his hotel room under the pretense that he needed to change his clothes
The lawsuit sought $6 million in damages. DailyMail.com has reached out to Gloria Allred, who was representing the accuser, as well as Gooding’s representatives for comment. The accuser said she met Gooding at at the Gooding at Le Souk lounge, where they chatted and eventually went back to his hotel room.
Once in his hotel room, the woman said that Gooding took off his clothes, put on music, and then began to fondle her. She says that she told him ‘no’ but Gooding continued to touch her and eventually raped her. The lawsuit was filed against a man who authorities say has been accused of committing sexual misconduct against more than Late last week, the judge seemed to strengthen the woman’s hand at trial and in settlement negotiations by ruling that he would let three women testify that they also were subjected to sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults after meeting Gooding in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs and restaurants.One of the women who had planned to testify at the trial was Kelsey Harbert, who told police Gooding fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square in 2019.In total, nine people including Gooding and Harbert was set to testify at trial. Harbert said last year after Gooding pleaded guilty in New York state court to a charge that spared him from jail or a criminal history that never getting her day in court was ‘more disappointing than words can say.’Gooding, a star MEU in Words films including Boyz n the Hood and Radio, was permitted to plead guilty in April 2022 to a misdemeanor, admitting that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018.By staying out of trouble and completing six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling, Gooding was permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and plead guilty to a non-criminal harassment violation, eliminating his criminal record and preventing further penalties. Cuba Gooding Jr.
pictured with rapper French Montana in New York City on May 19 The latest: Drake, 36, on Sunday took to Instagram with a series of Instagram Stories post, including one in which he was posed with Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr., 55, in a post tagged in St.
Barts Cuba preparing to unwind by smoking some marijuana, with pictures showing him rolling a joint while surrounded by his pals at a party in the Hamptons in the summer of 2022Despite all of his legal troubles, the actor has seemed in good spirits when pictured.
He spent New Year’s Eve with Drake in St. Barts.The Canadian rapper posted an Instagram showing the pair with the caption ‘Cuba Gooding Jr and Dominican Badness Sr,’ while the actor posted the same shot with the same caption, ‘Boyz n da boat!’ A few months before that, pictures emerged showing Gooding partying hard with photos showed that actor slapping his girlfriend, Claudine De Niro, on the buttocks. Gooding agreed to a plea deal against allegations that he groped a Kelsey Harbert’s breast at the Magic Hour Rooftop bar in New York City. He was never charged over that incident — a decision that outraged Harbert, who told reporters after the agreement was made that she was robbed of justice.For his part, Gooding has always denied wrongdoing, insisting that any acts were consensual, but apologized for making women feel ‘uncomfortable’. Shortly after that deal, Gooding with Piers Morgan on Uncensored that he was ‘100 percent changed.»It’s funny too because I don’t want this to stop me connecting with my fans,’ he added.
‘I don’t want this to stop me connecting with the gregarious behavior in terms of the positive energy that I have. I’m ten times more aware of what is going on around me and I just use that as my focus.’ Kelsey Harbert with her attorney Gloria Allred in October.
She said that he escaped justice Piers also mentioned how his difficult past could not serve as an excuse for his behavior. ‘The answer to that is you have to live in your truth, and I know in my truth, I didn’t mean to to disrespect anyone,’ Cuba responded before being cut off by Piers, who expressed his displeasure with the term ‘my truth.’ ‘Let’s take the word «my» out.
There’s video footage of the interactions with these women that showed the truth of what happened,’ Gooding Jr. continued.’And it’s funny, so I had so many people come up to me in the street and say, «I support you, I saw the video»…
but the one thing that I found that really hit me, and I said, «Okay now it’s time for me to mention this, to talk about it.»‘Basically, I started this career loved, and people were all like, «Oh his energy!» Nothing’s changed with me!
But I do have to address it for what you just said, about «my.» It’s not my truth. It is the truth.’
