Smokey Robinson and his wife sued by 4 women alleging sexual battery, assault

Smokey Robinson and his woman sued by 4 women alleging intersexual battery, battle

Smokey Robinson and his woman sued by 4 women alleging intersexual battery, assault 02:32

Four women person filed a suit against Motown fable Smokey Robinson and his woman alleging intersexual artillery and assault.

The complaint, which is seeking $50 cardinal successful damages, was filed Tuesday successful Los Angeles Superior Court naming Robinson, whose ineligible sanction is William Robinson Jr. and his wife, Frances Robinson, arsenic defendants.

Four women person filed a suit against Smokey Robinson and his wife, alleging intersexual battery, battle and workplace violations.  Tiffany Rose

The damages listed successful the suit see intersexual battery, assault, mendacious imprisonment, sex unit and respective workplace violations.

A connection issued by the Robinsons' lawyer precocious Wednesday described the suit arsenic a $50 cardinal extortion attempt.

The women, referred to arsenic Jane Does, are described successful the suit arsenic having been housekeepers for the Robinsons astatine their Chatsworth residence.

"We judge that Mr. Robinson is simply a serial and sick rapist, and indispensable beryllium stopped," said John Harris, the women's attorney, during a gathering with the property connected Tuesday. "I volition not picture the details of the intersexual assaults and rapes due to the fact that they are excessively graphic and disturbing for this quality conference."

All the women assertion they were repeatedly sexually assaulted by Robinson, with 1 of the claims dating backmost to 2007. According to the lawsuit, each the women allege they were forced to resign owed to the battle and harassment.

"Our 4 clients person a communal thread: they're Hispanic women," Harris said. 

The suit accuses Robsinon's woman of failing to instrumentality enactment to forestall the alleged acts. It besides claims she had anterior cognition that her hubby had antecedently settled different cases with women who experienced akin situations.

The women assertion that during the alleged assaults, Robinson utilized carnal barriers and threats of unit to forestall them from fleeing. One of the women says Robinson would substance her astatine assorted times passim her workday, asking to conscionable successful antithetic parts of his Los Angeles mansion wherever determination were nary cameras.

"We bash person grounds of immoderate of the misconduct," Harris said.

One of the workplace violations successful the suit is from a  pistillate who  claims that portion she worked for the Robinsons, she was lone paid $10 per hour. They each assertion they were not fixed due remainder periods and were not decently compensated for moving overtime hours.

None of the women brought their allegations to instrumentality enforcement for fearfulness of nonaccomplishment of livelihood, familial reprisal and the imaginable adverse effect connected their migration status, Harris said.

"Having to archer their hubby and children of these despicable actions near them filled with shame and embarrassment," Harris said. "So passim their dreadful experiences with Mr. Robinson, each 4 women remained silent."

The tribunal documents allege Robinson's woman created a hostile enactment environment, which included derogatory comments and affectional distress.

The lawyer for the Robinsons, Christopher Frost, said successful the Wednesday connection that, "The grounds ... volition amusement that this is simply an disfigured method of trying to extract wealth from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 cardinal to beryllium exact."

Frost depicted the allegations outlined by the plaintiffs' lawyers successful Tuesday's quality league arsenic "vile" and "false."

"We inquire anyone pursuing this lawsuit to reserve judgement arsenic the grounds comes to airy and each the existent facts of the lawsuit unfold," Frost continued, adding that, "We volition beryllium asking the Court to disregard the lawsuit. We volition besides beryllium asking the Court to code that successful their statements to the property astir Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff's attorneys person reached beyond the bounds of liberties that adjacent lawyers are typically allowed successful this context."

Frost said that "in time, Mr. Robinson volition respond successful his ain words."