Warrant Issued for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Arrest

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Sadie Gennis
July 31, 2012

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Cuba Gooding Jr. after the actor allegedly shoved a female bartender early Tuesday morning, TMZ reports.

According to the report, Gooding got into an altercation with patrons who were taking his photo at New Orleans' The Old Absinthe Bar on Bourbon Street. When a female bartender approached the Jerry Maguire actor and asked him to leave, the Oscar winner shoved her against a wall.

Another employee then called the police, but before Gooding left the bar he shoved the bartender again, according to TMZ.

The New Orleans Police Department has now issued a misdemeanor battery warrant for Gooding. Officers have been ordered to arrest the actor on sight.

Gooding is currently filming The Butler in New Orleans. The movie, which also stars Liam Neeson and Nicole Kidman, chronicles a White House butler who served eight presidents over three decades.

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Kate Stanhope
August 2, 2012
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A bartender who claimed that Cuba Gooding Jr. pushed her doesn't plan to file criminal charges against him, The Associated Press reports.
Police issued an arrest warrant for the Oscar winner, 44, on a misdemeanor charge of municipal battery after the bartender alleged that Gooding pushed her. The bartender told the police that Gooding became upset after patrons tried to pose with him for photos at the Old Absinthe House at about 3 a.m. When the bartender asked Gooding to calm down, he pushed her and pushed her again when she told him he should leave.
Gooding met with police the following day and was issued a court summons. The warrant was subsequently dropped. He is due to be arraigned on Friday.
"It is our understanding the employee involved in the alleged altercation has chosen to drop all charges against Mr. Cuba Gooding Jr.," Old Absinthe House spokeswoman Carolyn Pierce told the AP. "While we continue to investigate this matter internally, we are hopeful that this will put an end to the matter."
Ryan Berni, a spokesman for New Orleans police, said: "The witness indeed has indicated that she is likely to drop the charges. If she does, and after prosecutors review the evidence, a determination will be made as to whether to dismiss the charges."
In a separate statement, Gooding's publicist said the actor and New Orleans authorities "are moving swiftly to resolve this misunderstanding."
Gooding is currently in New Orleans filming the Lee Daniels historical biopic The Butler, also starring Liam Neeson and Nicole Kidman.

I wonder how much he paid her.:rolleyes:
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Cuba Gooding Jr. accused of groping woman at NYC club
By Tina Moore
June 10, 2019 | 8:31am

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The NYPD is investigating a woman’s claim that actor Cuba "Where Da White Wimmenz At" Gooding Jr. inappropriately touched her at a Manhattan club Sunday night, police sources said.

The 30-year-old woman told cops the actor grabbed her breast while they were socializing around 9 p.m. at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge on 7th Avenue in Midtown.

The woman said Gooding was “highly intoxicated” and that, after the alleged grab, she got into an argument with him that had to be broken up by security, the sources said.

The 51-year-old actor was caught on video leaving the club soon after the incident and the woman called 911 around 1 a.m.

Responding cops searched the area for Gooding but did not find him. The case was referred to the NYPD Special Victims Division, the sources said. He is being sought on a charge of forcible touching.

Social media posts showed Gooding at the hotspot inside the Moxy Hotel Times Square in a torn button-down shirt and belting out a spirited rendition of Journey’s song “Faithfully” into a microphone.

A spy told us Gooding appeared “happy” as he chatted up other clubgoers. He filmed a video message for one fan in Portuguese before sitting down with some pals.

“He was super good … sang with everyone,” the partygoer said, adding they didn’t witness the alleged incident.

The “Jerry Maguire” star’s hard-partying antics have raised eyebrows before for creeping women out.

He boozed it up sans shirt on the Miami party circuit in 2016, when a witness said he was “beyond frisky with girls.”

Gooding was seen pulling down his pants and also shoved a partygoer’s phone in his mouth, sources said at the time.

“He’s like Jekyll and Hyde … He goes from being super-friendly to super-aggressive,” a spy added.

Gooding, who starred as OJ Simpson in “The People v. OJ Simpson” TV series, was married to Sara Kapfer until they separated in 2014. He filed for divorce from his high school sweetheart in 2017 after over 20 years of marriage.

He has most recently been linked to Claudine De Niro, the estranged wife of Robert De Niro’s mongrel son Raphael.

Reps for the actor didn’t immediately return messages.
 
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Cuba Gooding Jr. arrested after groping allegations
By Kevin Fasick, Rebecca Rosenberg, Stephanie Pagones and Aaron Feis
June 13, 2019 | 2:33pm

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Cuba "Show Me Da White Wimmenz" Gooding Jr. was arrested on Thursday for allegedly groping a clubgoer after a night of drinking at a rooftop bar in Midtown, according to police.

The “Jerry Maguire” Oscar winner was charged with one count of misdemeanor forcible touching after sitting down with NYPD sex-crimes detectives.

Gooding stepped out of a dark SUV in front of Manhattan’s Special Victims Division base on East 123rd Street just after 2 p.m.

Decked out in a dark suit, Gooding said nothing as he walked into the cop shop, but smiled and waved to a throng of media awaiting his arrival.

Gooding’s arrest comes as his attorney, Mark J. Heller, insisted that video of the actor’s Sunday night jaunt to the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge in Midtown shows he did nothing wrong. :rolleyes:

“An extensive review of the available video taken that evening reveals that there was absolutely no criminal conduct and inappropriate conduct on the part of Cuba Gooding Jr., and it completely exonerates him from any criminal conduct,” the high-profile lawyer said Thursday.

Gooding is expected to be arraigned late Thursday in Manhattan criminal court.

The Bronx-born actor, 51, allegedly grabbed the breast of a 30-year-old patron as she passed him a glass of water to help him sober up after a night of partying at the Seventh Avenue bar, cops and police sources have said.

The alleged victim filed a claim with the NYPD early Monday, but by that point, Gooding had already returned home to California.

Gooding maintained his innocence to TMZ late Tuesday as he prepared to return to New York to face the claim.

Meanwhile Thursday, a second woman came forward to cops to accuse Gooding of groping.

But because that purported run-in at a Manhattan restaurant took place more than a decade ago — well outside the two-year statute of limitations for forcible touching — Gooding likely won’t be prosecuted for that alleged crime, sources said. :mad:
 
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Cuba Gooding Jr. hit with at least one new charge in sex abuse case
By Rebecca Rosenberg
October 10, 2019 | 11:38am

Cuba Gooding Jr. has been indicted on at least one new charge, prosecutors revealed Thursday — just as his sex abuse trial was slated to begin.

Assistant DA Jenna Long revealed the detail in Manhattan Criminal Court, when a judge was supposed to send his case to another courtroom for trial — as Gooding, wearing a pinstripe jacket and white pocket square, looked on, stunned.

“The defendant has been indicted on the charges included in this docket as well as an additional incident previously uncharged,” said Long.

Long did not disclose any details of the new charge or charges, but said that in light of the indictment, the case would have to be sent to Manhattan Supreme Court.

Judge Marisol Martinez Alonso sent the case to Justice Curtis Farber for Gooding to be arraigned on the charges this coming Tuesday, delaying the trial.

A woman, who hasn’t been publicly named, accused the “Jerry Maguire” actor of squeezing her breast June 9 at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge.

He was arrested and charged with one count each of misdemeanor sex abuse and forcible touching.

Gooding has staunchly denied the allegations. :rolleyes:

It’s unclear whether the indictment includes felony charges or involves a new victim. The indictment remains sealed until Gooding’s arraignment.

Defense lawyers Mark Heller and Peter Toumbekis didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
 
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Cuba Gooding Jr. allegedly told woman to ‘sit on my face, pee in my mouth’
By Rebecca Rosenberg and Kate Sheehy
October 15, 2019 | 2:55pm

Cuba Gooding Jr. once told a female stranger to sit on his face and pee in his mouth :eek:, Manhattan prosecutors allege in new court papers Tuesday.

The woman is one of a total of 14 accusers alleging sexual misconduct by the movie star, prosecutors revealed at a court hearing Tuesday, when Gooding pleaded not guilty to two counts of forcible touching and two counts of third-degree sex abuse, all misdemeanors, involving a pair of the alleged victims.

He has not been charged in the other dozen accusers’ alleged incidents, although prosecutors hope to still introduce their claims in court to prove a pattern of sexual abuse.

In February 2011, Gooding allegedly grabbed the female stranger’s arm in an LA bar as she walked past him to go to the bathroom. The pair had no “prior interaction,” the papers state.

Gooding “then placed his hand inside the woman’s blouse and squeezed her bare breast while he stated, in substance, ‘Sit on my face, pee in my mouth,’ ” the papers say.

She pushed him away while telling him, “You’re so nasty,” according to the documents.

When Gooding grabbed her arm as she walked past him to get to the bathroom again a short time later, someone told him to leave her alone, to which he replied, “I want her to sit on my face and pee in my mouth,’’ the documents say.

The allegation is one of a slew against the actor going back as far as 2011 and spanning four states: New York, California, Texas and New Mexico, according to prosecutors.

In 2013, Gooding grabbed a woman’s butt without her consent at the Chatwal Hotel in Manhattan and licked her neck, the papers say.

A year later, at Cafe Havana in Malibu, Calif., the star approached a female stranger and reached under her skirt and assaulted her, according to the documents.

“Defendant’s past behavior shows that he routinely approaches women while at bars or nightclubs with whom he has had limited or no prior interaction, and touches them inappropriately,” the prosecutors argue in the papers, in a bid to convince the judge to allow the additional dozen accusers’ allegations to be considered at trial.

“Looking at these instances, it is clear that the defendant’s actions are intentional, rather than accidental, that he does not mistakenly believe the acts are consensual.”

Gooding’s lawyer, Mark Heller, said in a statement Tuesday, “None of those [claims] are accurate, none of them are truthful, and I think they are simply efforts on the part of those individuals to draw themselves into the notoriety and publicity of this case.

“If any of them had any credence or validity, they would have been incorporated into criminal cases,” he said.
 
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Detective refuses to shake Cuba Gooding Jr.’s hand

By Rebecca Rosenberg
October 31, 2019 | 11:04am

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Cuba Gooding Jr. goes in for a handshake at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Matthew McDermott


Cuba Gooding Jr. became a star on New York’s walk of shame Thursday.

A detective refused to shake the actor’s hand as he turned himself in to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office on sexual misconduct charges.

Gooding, flanked by his lawyer, stepped out of a black SUV and walked to the building’s entrance, where a detective was waiting for him.

In an exaggerated manner, Gooding, who wore a slight smile, thrust out his hand toward the detective, who rejected the pleasantry. Instead, the detective’s right arm remained at his side as he motioned with his left for Gooding to enter the building.

The “Jerry Maguire” star is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday afternoon in Manhattan Supreme Court on misdemeanor charges related to a new victim. He has been indicted on six counts of forcible touching and sexual abuse related to three victims, who say the hard-partying actor groped them.

At least a dozen other women have accused Gooding of touching them inappropriately.
 
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Cuba Gooding Jr. arrives in Manhattan court for sex abuse case hearing
By Lorena Mongelli and Rebecca Rosenberg
August 13, 2020 | 10:14am | Updated

Cuba Gooding Jr. waved at reporters as he arrived at Manhattan Supreme Court Thursday for a hearing in his sex abuse case — wearing a mask with “Black Lives Matter” printed on the inside. :rolleyes:

After a lengthy hiatus from the courthouse due to the coronavirus pandemic, the mask-clad Academy Award-winner had to submit to a temperature test before heading through the court’s magnetometers.

Once in the courtroom, he briefly slipped off one side of the mask, exposing the writing, before reattaching the ear loop.

At the proceeding, both sides are expected to argue over what testimony will be precluded at the trial, which is slated for September.

The “Men of Honor” actor is charged with six misdemeanor counts of sexual abuse and forcible touching stemming from the allegations of three accusers.

He was first busted after allegedly squeezing a 30-year-old woman’s breast in June 2019 at the Moxy Hotel in Times Square, and then two additional accusers came forward.

He was first busted after allegedly squeezing a 30-year-old woman’s breast in June 2019 at the Moxy Hotel in Times Square, before two additional accusers came forward and he was charged with pinching the buttocks of Tao Downtown server Natasha Ashworth in October 2018 and subjecting a woman to “sexual contact without consent” at LAVO Nightclub on the Upper East Side one month earlier.

Twenty-two women spanning six states have accused Gooding of inappropriate conduct.

If convicted of the top count, he faces up to one year behind bars.
 
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New accuser says Cuba Gooding Jr. raped her in Soho hotel room
By Ben Feuerherd
August 18, 2020 | 1:26pm

Cuba Gooding Jr. coaxed a woman into a Soho hotel room in the summer of 2013 and raped her twice, a new lawsuit against the actor alleges.

The woman, who filed the suit under the pseudonym Jane Doe, said the assault happened after she met the “Jerry Maguire” actor in the VIP section of a Greenwich Village lounge in August of that year, according to court papers.

After they chatted at the lounge, Gooding invited her for drinks at the Mercer Hotel and the two took a cab to the party spot in the heart of Soho, according to the suit.

When they arrived, Gooding told her to come with him to his room at the hotel so he could change his clothes, the suit states.

In the room, Gooding put on music by Mumford & Sons and began to undress — despite the woman trying to tell him she wanted to leave and go to the bar downstairs.

“Plaintiff was wearing a halter top dress that evening. Defendant finished taking off his clothes (he was now completely naked) and forcibly and without consent put one hand in her halter top to touch Plaintiff’s breasts and one hand up her dress,” the suit states.

Gooding then allegedly began to grope her while she told him “no” several times, according to the suit.

The actor then allegedly raped the woman vaginally and anally, the court papers state.

After the assault, the woman rushed “downstairs in order to meet her friend, and hurriedly left the hotel room,” according to the suit.

The victim is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages for the alleged assault.

Gooding currently is facing a criminal trial on six misdemeanor counts of sexual abuse and forcible touching stemming from allegations of three accusers.

The actor was first busted after an incident at the Moxy Hotel before two additional accusers came forward.

He was arrested again and charged with pinching the buttocks of Tao Downtown server Natasha Ashworth in October 2018 and subjecting a woman to “sexual contact without consent” at LAVO Nightclub on the Upper East Side one month earlier.

“The allegations are completely false. No complaint was lodged seven years ago,” said Gooding Jr.’s attorney, Mark Heller.
 
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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. to stand trial in forcible touching, sex abuse case

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NEW YORK -- The date for actor Cuba Gooding Jr.'s trial on allegations of forcible touching and sexual abuse will selected on October 18, a judge said Tuesday.

The charges stem from an alleged encounter in 2013 with a woman at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar and Lounge in the Moxy Times Square Hotel.

The lawsuit, filed publicly in Manhattan federal court, alleged that the Oscar-winning "Jerry Maguire" actor attacked the woman, identified in court papers as "Jane Doe" to protect her privacy after she met him at a Greenwich Village VIP lounge.

Attorney Mark Heller, who represents the 52-year-old actor, said the "alleged event never took place."

"And my client is totally innocent of any of these false allegations and we're confident it will be dismissed," he said.

"She's probably just somebody who's looking for some glory to bask in the publicity and notoriety of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s case," he added.

Gooding already faces misdemeanor criminal charges of sexual abuse and forcible touching related to claims women have previously made against him. He has pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Heller has called the state court allegations "incredulous" and assailed the prosecution as a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The federal lawsuit said the woman agreed to accompany Gooding to a nearby SoHo hotel, where they were to be joined at the hotel's ground-floor bar and restaurant by Gooding's friends and a friend of the woman who was with her when she met Gooding at the VIP lounge.

But when they arrived at the hotel, Gooding convinced her to go upstairs with him to a room, saying he wanted to quickly change his clothes, the lawsuit said.

Instead, he put on music and attacked her, taking off her clothing and holding her arms to pin her down as he sexually assaulted and raped her twice, the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said the woman told Gooding during the attacks "'no' numerous times but he wouldn't stop."

According to court papers, the August 2013 attack has left the woman with "emotional pain, suffering, and a loss of enjoyment of life." The suit seeks unspecified damages.

Gooding appeared in Manhattan state court in August 2020, where he has pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor charges of forcible touching and sexual abuse. If convicted, he faces up to a year behind bars.

State prosecutors say more than two dozen women have made claims against Gooding since allegations first arose against him.

A previous version of this story said the trial would being on October 18, but has been corrected to say a date for the trial will be selected on October 18.
The Associated Press contributed to this report..

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Cuba Gooding Jr. settles civil rape lawsuit just as NYC trial set to begin​



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Cuba Gooding Jr. settled a Manhattan federal lawsuit accusing him of rape — just as jury selection was set to begin Tuesday morning in the case.
The “Jerry Maguire” actor, 55, had been slated to face trial over a woman’s allegations that he raped her twice at the Mercer Hotel in Soho on Aug. 24, 2013.
The trial was set to begin at 10 a.m. in Manhattan federal court, but at 10:24 a.m., a note was entered in the case saying “the parties have resolved the matter.”
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The woman had been seeking $6 million in damages.
Gooding has not denied that the sexual encounter took place, but has maintained it was consensual.
Nine people — including Gooding and his accuser — had been listed as potential witnesses to testify at the anticipated three-to-four-day trial.

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The accuser filed suit anonymously in 2020, but Manhattan US District Judge Paul Crotty instructed her to reveal her identity Monday, finding that it would be prejudicial to Gooding if the jury only knew her as a Jane Doe.


But the woman never refiled her complaint with her true name — signaling the possibility of an impending settlement.


Last year, Gooding took a no-jail plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors in a sex abuse case in which he was accused of groping three women in separate incidents in the Big Apple.

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In the current case, the woman claims that she met Gooding at Le Souk Lounge, where the pair struck up a conversation before Gooding invited her for drinks at his hotel.


Once there, they took shots before Gooding asked her to his room so he could change his clothes, she claimed.


Gooding put on music and began stripping once in the room, groped her breasts under her shirt while she said “no,” and then raped her vaginally and anally, she alleged.

Cuba Gooding Jr.Gooding has claimed the sexual encounter was consensual.AP  Cuba Gooding Jr. Last year, Gooding took a no-jail plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors in a sex abuse case in which he was accused of groping three women in separate incidents in NYC.AP
Gooding has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 30 women.


The woman’s lawyer Gloria Allred declined to comment on the terms of the settlement.


Gooding’s lawyers didn’t immediately return a request for comment Tuesday.
 
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