The indictment, in which Gooding also admitted in court that he had subjected two other women to “non-consensual physical contact” in 2018 and 2019, came three years after his arrest, the Manhattan Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Under the agreement, if Gooding, 54, continues to seek legal advice for six months, he could drop his misdemeanor complaint and plead guilty to lesser harassment. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register If he does not comply, he faces up to one year in prison. The actress was accused of abusing three different women at various nightclubs in Manhattan in 2018 and 2019. Read more He pleaded guilty to the most serious charge that accuses him of violently kissing a woman in a nightclub in September 2018, said a spokesman for the prosecutor. Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York, USA, October 31, 2019. Alec Tabak / Pool via REUTERS read more “I apologize for ever making anyone feel inappropriately excited,” the New York Times quoted Gooding as saying in court when he pleaded guilty. The actor’s representative and lawyer were not immediately available for comment. Gooding won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1996 romantic comedy “Jerry Maguire” as an unstable footballer who became the sole client of his sports agenda, demanding that Tom Cruise “show me the money”. Two decades later, Gooding played OJ Simpson in the television mini-series The People v. OJ Simpson ». Hours after the appeal, a Manhattan federal judge rejected Gooding’s offer to dismiss a $ 6 million lawsuit from a woman who said Gooding raped her twice in 2013 at the Mercer Hotel in Manhattan’s SoHo area. U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty said the woman did not take long to file a lawsuit, waiting until 2020 to invoke a New York law that protects victims of gender-motivated violence. Gooding said a different one-year statute of limitations should have been applied. He has denied the allegations of his accuser. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Kanishka Singh in Washington. Additional references by Jonathan Stempel in New York. Editing by Steve Gorman, Richard Chang & Shri Navaratnam Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
