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Cuba Gooding Jr. is dealing with extra authorized hassle.
In keeping with Folks, the 56-year-old actor has been accused of sexual assault by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. That title could sound acquainted to some now. As we beforehand reported, he claimed Sean “Diddy” Combs sexually harassed, abused, drugged, and threatened him whereas employed for over a yr in a civil criticism filed in New York federal court docket final month. In that very same lawsuit, Lil Rod had solely talked about Cuba. Nevertheless, an enormous change has been made to the criticism.
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The outlet reported {that a} model of the lawsuit in opposition to Diddy was amended to checklist Cuba as a defendant now! And the main points of the accusations in opposition to him are horrific. Lil Rod claimed The Butler star “started touching, groping, and fondling [his] legs, his higher interior thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks, and his shoulders” whereas on a yacht rented by Diddy within the U.S. Virgin Islands in January 2023.
He “believes” the 54-year-old rapper was “grooming him to move him off to his mates” when launched to Cuba by Diddy and allegedly “steered that Cuba ‘get to know’ Mr. Jones higher.” In keeping with the go well with, Lil Rod had been “extraordinarily uncomfortable” by the scenario and “rejected his advances.” Nevertheless, Cuba allegedly “didn’t cease till Mr. Jones forcibly pushed him away.” So terrible…
That is one in all many lawsuits in opposition to Diddy. To not point out these particulars come after two of his houses have been raided by the Division of Homeland Safety amid a intercourse trafficking investigation. He has denied the allegations in opposition to him, together with those made by Lil Rod. Presently, although, Cuba has not addressed the lawsuit from the music producers. Nevertheless, the Snow Canine star has been accused of sexual assault up to now.
Again in April 2022, he pleaded responsible to at least one rely of forcibly touching a girl at a rooftop bar in New York Metropolis in 2018. Cuba was additionally accused of raping a girl twice in 2013 in a 2020 lawsuit. He settled the go well with final yr.
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