Another woman has come forward with accusations against Cuba Gooding Jr.
An unidentified woman has filed a civil lawsuit against the actor, claiming he raped her twice in 2013. She alleges Gooding filed for a ‘crime of violence’ under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.
Various details the accusations (Trigger warning: The following passage contains very graphic details of a proven rape):
The unidentified woman said the incident happened in Gooding’s hotel room in New York City after she met the actor in the lounge of Greenwich Village. He invited her and the prosecutor’s friend out for drinks at The Mercer Hotel in SoHo, where he was staying, and asked her to his room when the two got together so he could change his clothes. According to the suit, the woman was about to leave the room to meet her friend downstairs when he once started complaining to her. Gooding apparently blocked the door, pushed her to the bed and reached her without permission without fail.
‘Earlier that night, I wore a halter top dress,’ reads the suit. “Defendant took off his clothes (he was now completely naked) and forcibly and without permission put one hand in her halter side to reach the plaintiff’s breasts and one hand pulled her dress up.”
The suit alleges that he then raped the woman all vaginally and anal, despite repeated pleas for him to stop.
According to the New York Times, longtime women’s rights lawyer Gloria Allred is on the legal team that the complaints.
“We have never received the complaint, but the allegations are completely false and damaging,” Gooding’s attorney Mark Jay Heller said in a statement. “The doubts he did not deal with properly in the complaint are completely inappropriate and untrue.”
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Back in October 2019, Gooding turned himself in NYPD pleaded not guilty to sexual assault charges involving three women. In December 2019, seven more women came forward with allegations of sexual abuse, meaning that there were 22 women in total accused Gooding of sexual abuse by that time. Last week during a court hearing, assistant district attorney Jenna Long said the tally had risen to 30. Gooding’s trial regarding the allegations of sexual abuse was set to begin in April, but was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The woman involved in this most recent civil lawsuit wants to proceed with a jury trial and is looking for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
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