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.
After staying out of trouble and completing six months of alcohol and behavioral counseling, Gooding was permitted to withdraw his guilty plea and instead pleaded guilty to a non-criminal harassment violation, eliminating his criminal record and preventing further penalties.
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