Heller also disputed allegations in media reports from a second woman said to have come forward in recent days, who told police Gooding grabbed her buttocks at a New York restaurant in 2008.
Minutes later he was charged with forcible touching, the New York police department said.
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr turned himself in to police on Thursday amid allegations that he groped a woman in a Manhattan nightclub.
Gooding, a native of New York’s Bronx borough, rose to fame after starring in Boyz N the Hood in 1991.