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Cuba Gooding Jr. Brings Major Emotion to "O.J." Role
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s tribunal lawsuit has travel to an end.
On June 6, the aforesaid time that the Jerry Maguire actor was acceptable to basal proceedings for the alleged 2013 rape of a pistillate successful a New York City hotel, helium settled the case, The Associated Press—citing tribunal records—reports.
E! News has reached retired to Cuba's lawyer for remark connected the settlement and has not heard back.
Although nary details of the colony person been made public, Cuba has maintained—through lawyers—that his brushwood with the pistillate was consensual aft the 2 met astatine a Manhattan restaurant.
According to the AP, the pistillate alleged successful her suit that the 55-year-old raped her aft persuading her to articulation him astatine a adjacent edifice and convinced her to halt by his country truthful helium could alteration his clothes. And though the pistillate remained anonymous passim the lawsuit, Judge Paul A. Crotty precocious ruled she would person had to uncover her sanction astatine the trial—which is nary longer happening.
The suit was seeking $6 cardinal successful damages and included Cuba being accused of sexual misconduct against much than 30 different women—including groping and unwarranted kissing among other alleged inappropriate behavior.
The Oscar victor primitively turned himself into the Special Victims Unit successful Manhattan successful June 2019 to beryllium perchance booked on a complaint of forcible touching. However, a root adjacent to the lawsuit told E! News astatine the time, "It is believed determination is surveillance that volition exonerate him."
"We asked the DA to reappraisal it due to the fact that we judge these charges should not determination forward," his lawyer told E! News successful a statement. "However the DA's bureau volition neither corroborate nor contradict if they person successful information reviewed it. So, present we are turning him successful arsenic the charges inactive stand."
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Then, in October 2019, E! News obtained tribunal documents that revealed The Weapon star was indicted connected 4 misdemeanor counts involving 2 women connected abstracted occasions. At the time, prosecutors shared they were planning to present grounds astatine proceedings of 12 further complainants, known arsenic Molineux witnesses, due to the fact that helium is not charged successful their cases.
Cuba's lawyer told reporters extracurricular of tribunal successful 2019 that helium was "shocked, outraged and perfectly dumbfounded" by the allegations. He besides called the charges "incredulous."
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