Cuba Gooding Jr. shares bombshell that he hopes can “clear” him from Diddy lawsuit accusing him of “groping” Producer Lil Rod

Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has responded to allegations linking him to a bunch of people involved in a civil lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The lawsuit filed by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleges sexual harassment and assault by the Bad Boy founder and names a number of celebrities, including Prince Harry, Yung Miami, 50 Cent’s ex Daphne Joy, influencer Jade Ramey, Kristina Khorram, a senior executive level. at Bad Boy Entertainment, in addition to Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge and his son.

A federal criticism filed in February and later amended on March 25 covering the “Jerry Maguire” actor alleges that Diddy groomed the 39-year-old to pass him on to his friends, including Gooding, for sexual purposes.

On the “PBD” podcast hosted by Patrick Bet-Davis, the “Fighting Temptations” star not only denies the veracity of these claims, but suggests that the producer is grasping at straws by including various stars in an try and strengthen his case. According to Gooding, he barely knows Diddy and has only met him a number of times together with his girlfriend.

Mr. “Show Me the Money” says his girlfriend Claudine De Niro (ex-wife of Robert De Niro’s son Raphael) was Diddy’s publicist and she or he was the one who introduced them. She also took Gooding to the Bad Boy CEO’s yacht party in query.

“I didn’t meet him probably until the 2019-20 season,” Bet-Davis said, before explaining the circumstances of his presence on the event Jones was at.

“(Diddy) invited us to his house. It is thought that the pandemic has began to subside. I have not seen him since that night,” Gooding said.

He then noted that on New Year’s Eve, he and Claudine were party hopping, going from boat to boat, hanging out with world boxing champion Mike Tyson and music giant Drake.

“There will probably be 300 of us on board P. Diddy’s boat on New Year’s Eve,” the actor said.

Gooding, who was named in several sexual harassment and assault lawsuits in the course of the height of the #MeToo movement, said the one reason he was around Jones was to take heed to music.

“Want to hear P. Diddy’s new song? I replied, “Yes, of course,” the actor continued. “Sit next to him (he says as he pulls out the live image to show the host). They didn’t take advantage of that angle.”

The photo Gooding showed the host allegedly shows how briskly the moment was, the festive atmosphere and captured the loud sounds of music and merrymaking.

– You made it look the best way you wanted it to. Here we just take heed to music. “Finish it, I took the thing off, told him everything I said and left,” he explained. – But this guy suing him wants money.

– By the best way, I do not know P. Diddy’s life. I do not know what he’s going through,” Gooding said. – We were friends, like I just showed you. I saw him two or 3 times.

Beth-David asked, “Then why did he include you in this?”

Gooding guessed, “Because of the darkness in the second grip, grip, grip of things I’ve already gone through.”

On June 13, 2019, the “Radio” star, who was punished with six misdemeanors for alleged sexual harassment, turned himself in to the authorities. The charges against Gooding were made by bartender Natasha Ashworth.

He failed to answer the lady’s criticism, which led her to ask for a default judgment against him in January 2021. During this time, he didn’t retain the help of a civil attorney and didn’t file a response on his own behalf.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Alexander Tisch granted Ashworth’s motion for default judgment on his assault and battery claims. Gooding avoided trial by pleading guilty to 1 misdemeanor count of forcibly touching a lady at a New York nightclub in 2018, almost three years in a while April 13, 2022.

Interestingly, Jones had been considering taking legal motion against Diddy for a while and even tried to crowdfund money to sue.

Three weeks before the primary lawsuit, which didn’t name Gooding, was filed, the producer publicly aired his complaints about alleged underpayment for his work on Diddy’s album “The Love Album: Off the Grid.”

Jones’ frustration together with his strained working relationship with Diddy first gained attention when he initiated a GoFundMe campaignasking for donations of $50,000 to interact legal representation to pursue its publishing interests, royalties and compensation for its contributions as a producer.

So far, Lil Rod has raised just over $5,975.

Diddy’s legal team says that is proof that his allegations are a fraud.