Cuba Gooding Jr.’s lawyers have claimed that witnesses heard his accuser bragging about having consensual s** with the actor on the same night she alleged he attacked her in a New York City hotel room in 2013.

Gary Becker, one of Gooding’s lawyers, told US District Court Judge Paul A. Crotty during a status conference in Manhattan federal court on Monday that they plan to call two witnesses at the trial who allegedly heard the woman boasting about having consensual s** with Gooding.

Becker’s co-counsel, Ed Sapone, clarified that they have three witnesses from the bar who heard the accuser bragging about having s** with the actor.

The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe” in court documents, sued Gooding in 2020, accusing him of raping her in his hotel room at Manhattan’s Mercer hotel in 2013 after they met at a bar in Greenwich Village.

The accuser alleged that she repeatedly told Gooding “no” and that he raped her a second time as she was trying to leave his hotel room.

Casey Wolnowski, one of Doe’s attorneys, stated that he was “aware of these witnesses” but “vehemently denies their views on what transpired.”

He added that he was “confident the jury is going to give” his client’s testimony “the weight it deserves.”

During the conference, attorneys for both parties discussed a trial date. On Tuesday, Judge Crotty ordered that the trial begin on June 5.

Wolnowski requested a 2024 trial date due to scheduling conflicts for his co-counsel, Nathan Goldberg, a partner at Gloria Allred’s law firm, but Crotty did not want to delay the trial that long.

Gooding’s attorneys raised several issues related to evidence that they are seeking for the trial at the hearing, though the deadline for exchanging such information ended in October.

Gooding’s attorneys said that Doe refused to turn over several documents they requested, including a police report she said she filled out about the alleged assault shortly after hiring Allred’s firm.

Wolnowski stated during the hearing that his client does not have paperwork relating to the police report and that Gooding’s attorneys should have subpoenaed the police.

Crotty did not rule on any of the evidence but seemed impatient with the issues being brought up after the discovery deadline had passed.

“The time for discovery is over. Let’s get on with the trial,” Crotty said on Monday.

Gooding has denied the rape allegations made by Doe.

After the conference, Sapone said that his client is “very confident” he will win the case.

Gooding has been accused of s**ual misconduct before.

In 2019, Gooding was arrested on suspicion of groping a woman at a Times Square bar.

This case later grew to include similar complaints from two other women.

In August 2020, prosecutors said more than 30 women had come forward to accuse Gooding of unwanted s**ual touching.

Last year, Gooding pleaded guilty to a harassment charge in a deal with prosecutors that allowed him to escape imprisonment.

One of the three accusers in the criminal case, Natasha Ashworth, also sued Gooding in New York Supreme Court. She won that case by default last year after Gooding refused to respond to the lawsuit for nearly two years.

A judge ordered Gooding to pay Ashworth $80,000 in damages.

In response to these previous accusations, Wolnowski stated during the hearing on Monday that “There is a trial and there’s a verdict and that’s all that matters.”