US actor Cuba Gooding Jr will face trial for alleged sexual assault. A judge in New York State rejected a petition by the 51-year-old Oscar winner this week to file the case. At the beginning of the process, she fixed the 3rd of September.
A woman accuses the actor of having caught her breast in a bar in Manhattan in June against her will. The actor, known from films like „Boyz n the Hood“ and „Jerry Maguire,“ rejects the allegations. Relieved he sees himself by taking pictures of surveillance cameras of the bar.
Oscar as Best Supporting Actor
Judge Phyllis Chu said that in view of the contradictory statements about the cases, it was necessary to determine in a court case what had actually happened.
Gooding Jr had his first major role in 1991 in the teen drama „Boyz n the Hood“ by recently deceased director John Singleton. For his portrayal of a football player in „Jerry Maguire“ he won in 1997 an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He received good reviews for the series „The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story „, in which he described the football legend O.J. Simpson embodies.
