{"id":25528,"date":"2019-06-17T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1049985"},"modified":"2019-06-17T09:30:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T15:30:36","slug":"cuba-gooding-jr-denies-sexually-assaulting-claudia-oshry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/cuba-gooding-jr-denies-sexually-assaulting-claudia-oshry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Gooding Jr. Denies Sexually Assaulting Claudia Oshry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019517\/rs_600x600-190617061719-600-Claudia-Oshry-Cuba-Gooding-Jr-LT-061719-GettyImages-910830442-GettyImages-943494050.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.0865\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"27.993\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cuba_gooding_jr\">Cuba Gooding Jr.<\/a><\/strong> is denying <strong>Claudia Oshry<\/strong>&#8216;s claims of sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after the 51-year-old actor was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1048160\/cuba-gooding-jr-accused-of-grabbing-woman-s-breasts-in-new-york-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused of grabbing a woman&#8217;s breasts<\/a> at a club in New York\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1049113\/cuba-gooding-jr-denies-groping-allegation-but-turns-himself-in-to-nypd?query=cuba%20gooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an accusation he has denied<\/a>\u2014the social media star brought forth a separate allegation against&nbsp;him on her podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7287237-wednesday-june-12th-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Morning Toast<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, like, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever considered myself to be, like, a victim of sexual assault because I&#8217;m not,&#8221; she said on the June 11 episode. &#8220;There are people who are real victims that I would never compare myself to them. But yes, when I was in high school\u2014I was f&#8211;king 16 years old\u2014Cuba Gooding Jr. put his finger up my butt, and I felt wild. Like, I felt\u2014I don&#8217;t even know what the right word is. And now, it&#8217;s just become, like, a part of who I am. It&#8217;s a part of my story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Gooding&#8217;s attorney, <strong>Mark Heller<\/strong>, denied&nbsp;Oshry&#8217;s accusation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cuba says this incident never happened and he has no recollection of this individual either,&#8221; Heller said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"74.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"39\">\n<p>During the podcast,&nbsp;Oshry, who became famous for her account&nbsp;<em>Girl With No Job<\/em>,&nbsp;said she&nbsp;includes the alleged incident as part of her &#8220;shtick&#8221; in her Dirty Jeans comedy tour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to put your finger up my butt without my consent? Fine. But I&#8217;m going to use it for all that it&#8217;s worth,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s become, like, this really funny bit in my story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since doing so, she said&nbsp;other&nbsp;people have shared their&nbsp;accusations against Gooding&nbsp;with her, as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, when I tell people this at my meet-and-greets and just anyone who&#8217;s ever come to my show, there&#8217;s, like, at least once every show, someone who comes up to me, they&#8217;re like, \u2018Oh my God! Me and my friends were at a club and the same thing happened to me&#8217; or \u2018the same thing happened to my friend,'&#8221;&nbsp;she said. &#8220;This is not the first time that I&#8217;ve heard, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve heard that police are involved,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Oshry&nbsp;also applauded Gooding&#8217;s anonymous accuser for coming forward. The actor was charged with forcibly touching and sexual abuse in the third degree after the unidentified woman spoke to police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good on this girl,&#8221; Oshry said. &#8220;Because ow many f&#8211;king people is he going to grope before one of them calls the police? Mine was 10 years ago!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>In addition, she&nbsp;spoke about her decision not to go to the police at age 16.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know why I didn&#8217;t go to the police because I was like a kid who was 16, underage at a club and I thought I was going to get in trouble for being in the club,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So, I just shut my mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1049985\/cuba-gooding-jr-denies-sexually-assaulting-claudia-oshry?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba Gooding Jr. is denying Claudia Oshry&#8216;s claims of sexual assault. Just days after the 51-year-old actor was accused of grabbing a woman&#8217;s breasts at a club in New York\u2014an accusation he has denied\u2014the social media star brought forth a separate allegation against&nbsp;him on her podcast The Morning Toast. &#8220;At the end of the day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 05:11:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}