Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr has settled a case with a lady who claimed he raped her in a New York City lodge a decade in the past, in response to courtroom information.

A civil trial had been about to start with jury choice in a New York federal courtroom.

However, minutes after jurors have been to start assembling in a courtroom, a calendar entry within the official courtroom report stated: "TRIAL OFF."

It added: "Reason for cancellation (on consent): the parties have resolved the matter."

The girl had proceeded anonymously till final week, when Judge Paul Crotty dominated that she must reveal her identify at trial.

Gooding Jr, 55, had insisted by attorneys that his encounter with the girl was consensual after the 2 met at a close-by restaurant.

The actor, who gained an Oscar for his position within the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, confronted allegations that he met the girl in Manhattan, persuaded her to affix him at a lodge, and satisfied her to cease at his room so he may change clothes.

The girl alleged in her lawsuit that Gooding Jr then raped her in his room.

Gooding Jr's attorneys insisted that it was consensual intercourse and that she bragged to others that she had intercourse with a star.

The lawsuit sought $6m (£4.8m) in damages.

The authorities say Gooding Jr has been accused of committing sexual misconduct in opposition to greater than 30 different girls, together with groping, undesirable kissing and different inappropriate behaviour.

Last week, the choose appeared to strengthen the girl's hand at trial and in settlement negotiations by ruling that he would let three girls give proof that they have been additionally allegedly subjected to sudden sexual assaults or tried sexual assaults after assembly Gooding Jr in social settings corresponding to festivals, bars, nightclubs and eating places.

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One of the ladies who had deliberate to provide proof on the trial was Kelsey Harbert, who instructed police Gooding Jr fondled her without her consent at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge close to Times Square in 2019.

Ms Harbert stated final 12 months after Gooding Jr pleaded responsible in New York state courtroom to a cost that spared him from jail or a prison historical past that by no means getting her day in courtroom was "more disappointing than words can say".

Gooding Jr, a star in movies together with Boyz N The Hood and Radio, was permitted to plead responsible in April 2022 to a misdemeanour, admitting that he forcibly kissed a employee at a New York nightclub in 2018.

By staying out of bother and finishing six months of alcohol and behavioural counselling, Gooding Jr was permitted to withdraw his responsible plea and plead responsible to a non-criminal harassment violation, eliminating his prison report and stopping additional penalties.