Cuba Gooding Jr. faces allegations of dodging courtroom course of servers in reference to a sexual assault lawsuit filed by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr.
Jones accuses the Oscar-winning actor of inappropriate conduct on a yacht within the U.S. Virgin Islands. Jones has thrust Gooding into the limelight alongside Diddy Combs with the authorized grievance, escalating pressure in a multi-layered authorized battle.
Jones’s legal professional, Tyrone Blackburn, has tried to serve authorized papers on Gooding in New York and Florida, however all makes an attempt to this point have been unsuccessful.
Blackburn states, “The problem in serving Mr. Gooding factors to a deliberate try and evade these very critical claims.”
The lawsuit stems from an incident in January 2023 on Combs’s yacht, the place Jones alleges that Cuba Gooding Jr. groped him regardless of clear non-consent.
After Jones forcefully denied Gooding’s advances, the grievance particulars that neither Gooding nor Diddy, the host, intervened considerably to handle or halt the escalating state of affairs.
However Gooding isn’t being quiet concerning the lawsuit to affect the courtroom of public opinion. The actor sat down for an interview on the Patrick Wager-David Podcast and expressed his astonishment upon studying concerning the lawsuit.
“It’s loopy, that’s the craziest factor I’d ever [heard]… after which, hey how about me?” he mentioned. “I get up within the morning, I flip [on] the present…I used to be like, excuse me, [they] pull me into this!”
Gooding additionally addressed the now-infamous photograph of himself with Jones, which Gooding dismissed.
“You made it look the best way you wished it to look, however that [photo]… we have been simply listening to music,” Gooding mentioned, including that there have been greater than 300 individuals on the yacht on the time.
Gooding referred to the lawsuit as nothing greater than an try and extort cash out of Diddy.
“This man who’s suing him, going after the cash man… I’m positive,” Cuba Gooding Jr. mentioned.
As of now, the lawsuit is unsure because of the difficulties related to serving Gooding.