“There were three victims that resulted in six counts in an indictment,” said Gooding’s attorney Frank Rothman outside of Manhattan Supreme Court.
Assistant District Attorney Coleen Balbert told Judge Curtis Farber that Gooding has completed six months of court-ordered counseling and has stayed out of trouble, therefore dismissing all of the criminal charges.The actor had been accused of violating three different women at various Manhattan night spots in 2018 and 2019.
Gooding was previously charged with touching a woman’s breasts, later identified as Kelsey Harbert, at the Manhattan bar Magic Hour in 2019, and separately with pinching a woman’s buttocks at the TAO nightclub, also in Manhattan, in 2018. “I want him to be accountable for the consequences of his actions,” said Harbert outside of the courthouse on Thursday.Gooding won the Academy Award as best supporting actor for his role in the 1996 romantic comedy “Jerry Maguire” as a volatile football player who becomes his sports agent’s only client, demanding that Tom Cruise “show me the money.”
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