A New York judge has granted a request to allow three women who accused actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. of sexual abuse.
The women will be able to testify at a federal civil trial next week. The women are there to support the plaintiff identified as Jane Doe who alleges the actor raped her in his Manhattan hotel room after they met in a bar in 2013.
However, Judge Paul A. Crotty issued a separate order that the woman will have to reveal her true name at the trial, Fox News reported.
The alleged victim is seeking $6 million.
In her ruling, Crotty said the claims by the three women who can testify “are sufficiently similar” to the claims at issue in the trial because “all involve sudden sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults” allegedly involving Gooding Jr.
Gooding Jr. allegedly raped the women in social settings such as festivals, bars, nightclubs, and restaurants, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
But the actor’s lawyers claimed one of the women involved had consensual sex with their client, saying she allegedly joined him at a nearby hotel bar and then agreed to go to his hotel room so he could change clothes.
Once in the room, he was “completely naked” and “forcibly and without consent” put one hand on her top while placing another hand up her dress. “Jane Doe” claimed to repeatedly tell Gooding Jr. “no,” but he did not stop his advances and then raped her.
Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty last year in another case involving a woman named Kelsey Harbert, who broke down in tears and said she never got her day in court.
In 2019, Harbert told police that Gooding Jr. fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in Manhattan.
