arrested in June 2019 following an incident at a Manhattan nightclub, where a 29-year-old woman accused him of squeezing her breast without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in New York.Following the incident, two more women came forward with allegations of inappropriate touching.
The actor was accused of pinching a server’s buttocks after making a sexually suggestive remark to her at TAO Downtown and forcibly touching a woman inappropriately at the LAVO nightclub in 2018.Gooding Jr.
previously pleaded not guilty to six misdemeanor counts and denied all other allegations. His lawyers argued that the allegations were trying to turn “commonplace gestures” or misunderstandings into crimes.According to The New York Times, more than 20 women have come forward to accuse the actor of groping or forcibly touching in incidents spanning the past two decades.In a separate case from August 2020, Gooding Jr.
is facing a civil lawsuit from a woman who has accused him of raping her twice in 2013 in a New York city hotel room. He has denied the accusations..
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