Cuba Gooding Jr. has been accused of sexual assault once more, this time by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr., who filed a lawsuit in February accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually harassing, drugging, and threatening him between 2022 and 2023. Gooding’s title got here up within the authentic go well with, however on Monday, the submitting was amended to checklist him as a defendant, in keeping with Individuals. The Miami Herald reviews that the go well with was amended hours after Homeland Safety raided Combs’s Miami and Los Angeles properties.
Jones says he believes that along with harassing and drugging him, Diddy was “grooming him to go him off to his buddies.” Jones claims that Combs launched him to Gooding in January 2023, whereas the boys had been on Combs’s yacht within the Virgin Islands, and “steered that Cuba ‘get to know’” him higher. Jones alleges that after the introduction, Gooding sexually harassed and assaulted him. “Cuba Gooding Jr. started touching, groping, and fondling Mr. Jones’ legs, his higher interior thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks and his shoulders,” the grievance says. Feeling “extraordinarily uncomfortable,” Jones says he leaned away and “rejected his advances” however claims Gooding “didn’t cease till Mr. Jones forcibly pushed him away.”
In his go well with, Jones accused Combs of working a “sex-trafficking enterprise” and “partaking in severe criminal activity,” together with “offering laced alcoholic drinks to minors and intercourse staff at his properties.” Jones stated that he lived and traveled with Combs whereas engaged on the rapper’s 2023 album. Throughout that point, he stated he was “the sufferer of fixed unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus by Mr. Combs.” Jones additionally recalled waking up bare, dizzy, and confused in mattress with Combs and two intercourse staff, and believes that Combs had drugged him. A supply instructed NBC Information the raids of Combs’s properties — which his legal professional referred to as a “gross overuse of military-level pressure” — had been associated to an investigation concerning allegations of intercourse trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of unlawful narcotics and firearms.
This isn’t the primary time Gooding has been accused of sexual assault. In 2022, he pleaded responsible to at least one depend of forcibly touching a girl in 2018. A 12 months later, he settled a lawsuit during which a girl accused him of raping her twice in 2013. In November, the identical two ladies introduced a civil go well with in opposition to him.
In the meantime, Shawn Holley, an legal professional for Combs, has denied Jones’s allegations in opposition to her consumer, telling the Lower in an e mail in February that Jones was “nothing greater than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly searching for an undeserved payday. His reckless name-dropping about occasions which are pure fiction and easily didn’t occur is nothing greater than a clear try to garner headlines.”
We’ve reached out to an legal professional for Gooding for touch upon the most recent allegations and can replace if we hear again.