Cuba Gooding Jr pleads guilty to emotional rape

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr on Wednesday pleaded guilty to raping a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018.

The guilty plea comes nearly three years after the Oscar-winning star “Jerry Maguire” was arrested in a case that featured multiple delays as his attorney sought to reduce or exonerate charges.

Gooding, 54, accused of abusing three different women at various Manhattan nightclubs in 2018 and 2019, pleaded guilty to just one of the charges.

He told the judge he “kissed the waitress on the lips” without consent at LAVO New York nightclub.

Gooding’s plea agreement calls for no jail time. If he continues counseling for six months, he can withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a lesser offence.

Frank Rothman, Gooding’s attorney, said he’s “relieved that the DA office has finally seen what this case really is and its true value.”

“He’s in therapy,” Rothman said of Gooding. “He did everything right. And it was the proper solution to not give someone a criminal record that has been around for many years, does everything correctly and has very questionable charges. against him. This is the proper solution. This is the right compromise.”

Gooding was arrested in June 2019 after a 29-year-old woman told police he squeezed her breasts without her consent at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge near Times Square.

A few months later, he was charged in two additional cases when more women came to accuse him of abuse. New charges allege he pinched a waiter’s butt after making sexually explicit comments to her at TAO Downtown and inappropriately raped a woman at LAVO nightclub, both in 2018.

Gooding previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanors and denied all charges of misconduct. His lawyers have argued that radical prosecutors, caught up in the frenzy of the #MeToo movement, are trying to turn “common gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.

The judge ruled that if the Gooding case went to trial, prosecutors could call two more women to testify on their charges that Gooding also violated them. Those women, whose claims did not lead to criminal charges, are among 19 other accusers that prosecutors are seeking to call as witnesses.

Along with the criminal case, Gooding is charged in the 2013 New York City rape of a woman. After a judge ruled in July that Gooding failed to respond to the lawsuit, The actor has retained a lawyer and is struggling. accusations.

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