The civil case will start less than a year after the actor avoided prison by pleading guilty to a criminal case that accused him of groping several women.
NEW YORK --Three women who claim Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused them - including one upset she never got her day in court when Gooding resolved criminal charges without trial or jail - can testify at the federal civil trial to support a woman's claim that the actor raped her in 2013, a judge ruled Friday.
He said the claims by the three women who can testify "are sufficiently similar" to the claims at stake in the trial because "all involve sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults" connected to Gooding and stemmed from the presence of the women and Gooding in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs and restaurants.
Gooding, a star in films including "Boyz n the Hood" and "Radio," was permitted to plead guilty in April 2022 to a misdemeanor, admitting that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018. The deal was criticized by some of at least 30 women who prosecutors say have made sexual misconduct allegations against him, many citing encounters at New York City nightspots that resulted in groping, unwanted kissing and other inappropriate behavior.
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