Smokey Robinson denied allegations of sexual assault, after four former Motown Star housekeeping brought legal action including allegations including a sexual battery, false penalty, negligence and violence between sexes.
The prosecution was filed before a court in Los Angeles on May 6. He also alleys that a series of work violations, in particular that Robinson and his wife, Frances, did not pay the minimum wage and the overtime for women, submitted inaccurate salary statements and created a hostile work environment. Women are looking for financial damage.
Robinson’s lawyer, Christopher Frost, replied to the trial, saying that “proof … will show that it is simply a ugly method to try to extract money from an 85 -year -old American icon – $ 50 million, to be exact.”
He called allegations against Robinson and his wife “Vile, False”, adding that they “defy credulity” and contain “problems linked to the alleged chronologies, inconsistencies and relations between complainants and others”.
Frost accused the legal team of complainants of “bizarre theaters” and “trying to call on the public as an involuntary participant in the media circus they are trying to create”.
Robinson is one of the most prosperous songwriters-songwriters in pop history, with successes he himself played-like we n ° 1 tears of a clown, with his group The Miracles-completed by those written for others, such as my guy by Mary Wells, is not as special by Marvin Gaye and Hits by temptations, including Get Ready and My Girl.
The allegations against him date from 2007 and 2024. Women, who are all anonymized in the trial, alleged that he has sexually assaulted them in his succession to Chatsworth, California, with alleged offenses which also take place in houses in Las Vegas and Bell Canyon, California.
Women’s lawyers said that “as low -wage workers in vulnerable positions, they did not have the resources and options necessary to protect themselves from sexual assault”. Robinson was characterized as “a serial and sick rapist” which must be arrested.
Robinson’s wife, Frances, is accused of having used “words and ethnically ethnically pejorative”, and of being aware of alleged sexual assaults. “We believe that she was aware of the misconduct of her husband, Smokey Robinson, and that she used their status as well as the dependence of our customers with regard to their living salary in order to keep them in check,” said lawyer Herbert Hayden.
Frost said Robinson would respond later in his own words and that a request would be filed to reject the trial.
