14 Women Accuse Cuba Gooding Jr. of Unwanted Sexual Touching

The charges in the latest case, forcible touching and third-degree sexual abuse, are identical to the ones he previously faced. The maximum penalty for the top charge, forcible touching, is a year in jail.

The charges revealed on Tuesday stem from an episode at the Tao Downtown nightclub on Ninth Avenue on Oct. 24, 2018. The indictment says Mr. Gooding pinched a woman’s buttocks, and when she confronted him, claimed that he had pinched her back. Earlier in the night, the indictment says, Mr. Gooding made a sexually suggestive remark to her.

Mr. Heller said he saw security footage of the encounter and that it showed no criminal conduct.

In court papers, prosecutors also described the recollections of the other 12 women who say Mr. Gooding touched intimate parts of their bodies without their consent. Those instances are mostly from five or more years ago and took place at bars in several cities from Dallas to Albuquerque to Los Angeles.

The court documents said that in around 2007, Mr. Gooding was at a movie-related event at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas when, a woman said, he called her and her friends to his table and tried to kiss her. She said she pushed him away to avoid the kiss but that he was able to lick her face and grab her backside. The next night, she said, Mr. Gooding forcibly kissed her, putting his tongue up against her closed lips.

In a 2011 episode, at a Los Angeles bar, a woman said she was walking to the restroom when Mr. Gooding grabbed her arm, the court filings said. She said he put his hand inside her blouse, squeezed her bare breast and said something like “sit on my face, pee in my mouth.” The woman said he later grabbed her arm again when she passed by and someone told him to leave her alone.

Other accusations detailed in court documents involve Mr. Gooding’s reaching under a woman’s skirt and touching her vagina outside her underwear, biting two women on their shoulders, thrusting his pelvis against two women and licking a woman’s neck. As is customary in sexual misconduct cases, none of the 14 women were identified by name.