A lawyer for Smokey Robinson said at the end of Wednesday that the accusations of sexual violence against the Motown singer were “in common” and “false” and that a lawsuit was filed by the four women who made the accusations was an attempt to extract millions of dollars from him.
The women worked as householders of Mr. Robinson, and their lawsuit accuses him to abuse them dozens of times. The suit that the women only identifies when Jane does 1 to 4, says that Mr. Robinson has repeatedly raped them, while his wife, Frances, who is a co -suspect, is kicking an eye.
In a statement to the New York Times, Mr Robinson’s lawyer, Christopher Frost, the suit “called an ugly method to try to get money from an 85-year-old American icon.”
“We ask everyone who follows this case to reserve the judgment when the evidence comes to light and all the actual facts of the case unfold,” said Mr. Frost.
The lawsuit, that was submitted on Tuesday In the Supreme Court in Los Angeles, three of the women feared to report Mr. Robinson to the authorities because of their immigration status. “As employees with low wages in vulnerable positions, they missed the resources and options that are needed to protect themselves against sexual attacks in their term of office as employees for the Robinsons,” said their lawyer, John Harris, Tuesday.
The lawsuit is in graphic detail about the abuse claims.
Mr. Robinson, according to it, would drop his wife in a nail salon and rush home to attack one of the women while she was alone in the house of Robinsons in Chatsworth, a district of Los Angeles.
A second woman, the suit says, was sexually abused at least 23 times during the six years that she worked for the Robinsons, from 2014 to 2020.
The suit says that a third woman, who worked for the Robinsons from 2012 to 2024, was sexually attacked at least 20 times. The fourth plaintiff, who says she worked for the couple from 2006 to April 2024, said she was sexually abused by Mr. Robinson in the Chatsworth House and with several of his other houses.
The women’s lawyers did not say whether their clients are planning to make criminal prosecution. A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department of Los Angeles County, which covers the area where the lawsuit remarks that the attacks were taking place, said it had not opened an investigation.
In his statement, Mr. Frost said that he and his legal team would soon ask a judge to reject the lawsuit and “to say more about this issue.”
Mr. Robinson and the musical group he led, The Miracles, were Royalty, who performed some of the biggest hits in the record company’s catalog. Either alone or with others, he wrote a whole series of classical songs: “Shop around”, “You’Tul got a hold on me”, “The tracks of my tears”, “Going to a go-go”, “I Second That Emotion” and “The Tears of A Clown.”
He also wrote or wrote songs for other artists, including ‘My Girl’, which was a hit for the Temptations, and ‘My Guy’ for Mary Wells.
Robinson was honored by the Academy recording, the Kennedy Center and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
He recently released a new album entitled “What the World Needs Now” and has been on a media blitz to promote it. He is then planned to perform on Friday in Biloxi, Miss., In a casino of 1600 seats.
Orlando Mayorquín contributed reporting.
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