Cuba Gooding Jr settles rape lawsuit ahead of civil trial

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr has settled a suit with an unnamed pistillate who accused him of raping her successful a New York City edifice country successful 2013.

News of the colony came arsenic assemblage enactment was owed to statesman successful a national civilian proceedings that was expected to see damaging grounds against him.

The Academy Award winner, 55, has insisted his interactions with the pistillate were consensual.

Mr Gooding pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to kissing a pistillate without her consent.

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