Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded guilty to one count of forcible touching, on Wednesday in Manhattan. This is coming after he was accused by more than 20 women of groping, touching or forcibly kissing them in encounters that dated back more than two decades.
The count, a misdemeanor, charged that he had forcibly kissed a woman at a nightclub in Manhattan in 2018.
Under terms of the plea, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Gooding Jr. must continue alcohol and behavior modification treatment that he has been undergoing since 2019, for six more months, and he must have no new arrests.
If he fulfills the terms of the plea, he can then withdraw the plea and plead to a lesser charge of harassment, a violation, with a sentence of time served, the office further said. Also, the record of the plea will not be sealed.
However, if Gooding doesn’t comply with the terms of his deal, the misdemeanor guilty plea would stand and he could face up to one year in jail.
A Bronx native, Gooding had his first major success playing the lead role in the 1991 film “Boyz n the Hood,” and he won an Academy Award in 1997 for his supporting role in “Jerry Maguire.” He also played O.J. Simpson in the 2016 television series “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
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The count, a misdemeanor, charged that he had forcibly kissed a woman at a nightclub in Manhattan in 2018.
Under terms of the plea, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Gooding Jr. must continue alcohol and behavior modification treatment that he has been undergoing since 2019, for six more months, and he must have no new arrests.
If he fulfills the terms of the plea, he can then withdraw the plea and plead to a lesser charge of harassment, a violation, with a sentence of time served, the office further said. Also, the record of the plea will not be sealed.
However, if Gooding doesn’t comply with the terms of his deal, the misdemeanor guilty plea would stand and he could face up to one year in jail.
A Bronx native, Gooding had his first major success playing the lead role in the 1991 film “Boyz n the Hood,” and he won an Academy Award in 1997 for his supporting role in “Jerry Maguire.” He also played O.J. Simpson in the 2016 television series “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
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