Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. resolved his New York City forcible touching case Thursday with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and no jail time after complying with the terms of a conditional plea agreement reached in April.
Prosecutor Coleen Balbert said Gooding has stayed out of trouble and completed six months of alcohol and behavior modification counseling, allowing him to withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to a harassment violation.
Balbert said she has received “positive reports for the last six months” from Gooding’s therapist. The actor is continuing with treatment beyond the time required by his plea agreement, Balbert said.
Gooding, 54, faces no additional penalties and, by replacing his misdemeanor plea with a plea to a noncriminal violation, he will not have a criminal record. If Gooding had failed to comply with the terms of the deal, he would have faced up to one year in jail.
Gooding pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge that he forcibly kissed a worker at a New York nightclub in 2018. That was just one of dozens of allegations of inappropriate behavior by the Oscar winner that came to light in recent years.
Some of Gooding’s accusers criticized what they regarded as light punishment for the “Jerry Maguire” star and some are pressing ahead with civil litigation against him.
I like the scene in Boyz N Da Hood where Cuba Gooding Jr. was making up a story, for his dad (Lawrence Fishbourne), about having sex with a girl. But it was all a lie, because Cuba was a virgin.
How things are so different for actors in real life
Cuba obviously going through some mental issues I saw the footage of what happened and yeah he was drunk and being overly aggressive with women BUT but he wasn’t drugging them physically assaulting them he was just drunk and and acting very inappropriate, and as you can see the United States government was ready to put his ass on the registry it doesn’t matter your race color creed religion how much money you got the United States government will put anybody on the registry no one is safe.
Judging by the look the look on Cuba face he was scared of being placed on it .