Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in 2013 in a new civil lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Variation reports. The actor is awaiting trial on separate charges of abuse of coercive touch and sexual abuse in the third degree of 2019.
According to the new lawsuit via Variation, an anonymous woman claims the incident happened in Gooding’s Mercer Hotel room in New York, after she met in a lounge in Greenwich Village. The actor invited the woman and her friend for drinks at the hotel, but escorted the prosecutor ahead to his room so he could change, according to the suit.
In the suit, the woman tried to leave the room when Gooding disguised herself so she could meet her friend, but Gooding apparently blocked her from leaving and raped her, despite her telling him to stop altogether. She claims he raped her twice.
Mark Jay Heller, Gooding’s attorney, denied the claims against his client. “We have never received the complaint, but the allegations are completely false and damaging,” he said Variation. “The doubts he did not deal with properly in the complaint are completely inappropriate and untrue.”
The woman alleges Gooding filed for burglary of the victims of New York City’s victims of gender-motivated violence protection, who seek to protect victims of gender-based violence.
Gooding is awaiting trial on former girl charges filed in 2019. He faces six counts of coercive assault and sexual abuse after being accused of raping three girls at various nightclubs in New York. Gooding has pleaded guilty to the charges of 2019.
