Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is a being sought by police in New Orleans for allegedly shoving a female Bourbon Street bartender early Tuesday morning. Gooding, was with friends at The Olde Absinthe House when he flipped out on some tourists trying to take his picture, police said.
“Gooding a married father of two, became reportedly very aggravated with them,†the New Orleans police said in a statement.
The bartender came over and asked Gooding to “calm down,†but the actor “pushed her away with an open hand.â€
At that point, one of the bartender’s co-workers called 911.
When the unidentified bartender told Gooding the cops were coming, he “allegedly pushed her again, and left the bar,†the release states.
The arrest warrant for the 44-year-old Bronx native is for municipal battery.
Gooding is in New Orleans to film “The Butler†with Oprah Winfrey, according to TMZ.com, which first broke the story.
Gooding was accused in March of groping women at a New Mexico bar. He dismissed the allegations as “b——t.â€
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I just think it’s f*cked up how Oprah will be in a movie with a man that displays violent repetitive behavior towards women. A while back, I also read that Cuba groped some random woman. But OPRAH wants to get online and slam Chris Brown???? She wanna send a video to him and ban him off her show??? Sounds like contradiction to me sweety! If Cuba is treating random women like this he doesn’t even know, I can only imagine what his wife and child are going through at home! I home they find his black a** and stick it to him! Seems as though he thinks he runs the world…HA!