Cuba Gooding Jr. told a Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday that he had never been served with a lawsuit accusing him of raping a woman twice in 2013.

The filing came as Gooding and his attorney, Edward Sapone, seek to unwind a July 29 default judgment, which found the Academy Award-winning actor civilly liable for the alleged rapes after Gooding had failed to respond to the suit for nearly a year.

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