Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded not guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor charges he fondled women in two separate Manhattan incidents — and prosecutors hope to use a dozen similar and shocking complaints at trial from women across the country who say the “Men of Honor” star groped, grinded and grabbed them against their will.
The DA’s office detailed a series of raunchy and unwanted sexual overtures to women at parties and nightclubs beginning in 2001, when he allegedly grinded against a woman’s rear at the W Hotel in Los Angeles, according to a court document.
In 2011, he forced his hand up the blouse of a woman at a Los Angeles bar and squeezed her breast, asking her to “sit on my face, pee in my mouth,’” the paper says.
“You’re so nasty!” the alleged victim fired back at the “Gifted Hands” actor.
The litany of lewd behavior includes him lurking behind accusers and biting their shoulders, grabbing their privates and forcing his tongue down their throats in abrupt efforts to kiss them, the document says.
The acts took place throughout the country including in Dallas, New Mexico, New York and Los Angeles. None of the described allegations amounted to rape or forced sex acts.
“You’ve got a good piece of a–,” the pervy performer allegedly told another accuser in 2003 after posing for a photo with her at a party at the Yard House in Long Beach, Calif., and copping a feel.
He was belligerent at times, according to the court papers, calling a woman a “f–king c–t” and “stupid b—h” when she scolded him for reaching up her friend’s dress, following other unwanted moves.
That same friend says she was groped by Gooding six months prior to her calling him out.
