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According to the new lawsuit, Smokey Robinson is accused of sexual abuse by a small number of women.
Four women, who previously worked by 85 R&B-Soul icons, denounced Robinson for the creation of a hostile work environment, including sexual battery, attack, false imprisonment, gender violence and the creation of a hostile work environment, according to a May 6 complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by USA Today.
The woman employed as a housekeeper at Robinson’s Chatsworth in Los Angeles claimed they were forced to quit their job due to the singer’s “repeated sexual assault and sexual harassment,” adding that his alleged conduct is “conscious of their rights, their emotions, their feelings and emotions, and “wicking, wanton and malicious.”
USA Today contacted a Robinson representative for comment.
Robinson’s longtime wife, Francis Robinson, was also named in the lawsuit, claiming that all four women had the singer’s spouse “has had full knowledge of his previous sexual misconduct” and “didn’t take appropriate corrective action.”
Additionally, a group of 25 people (also referred to anonymously as 1-25) was also sued for alleged involvement in “events and events” outlined in the women’s accounts.
Woman blames Smokey Robinson for rape, labor abuse
One woman anonymously identified as Jane Doh 1, claiming that Robinson raped her multiple times while she was employed with the singer.
A former employee who allegedly worked over the weekend while the rest of Robinson’s staff were off claimed that he would often begin sexual advances on Saturday after Robinson dropped his wife Francis at a nail salon.
With each Doe account, Robinson calls the woman to his bedroom, where he “was only dressed in underwear”, then engages in unnecessary kissing and digital intrusion of the woman’s vagina, and forced oral sex and fucking. She said this pattern of attack occurred at least seven times during their professional relationships.
Doe “will protest and resist his sexual assault, but it’s useless,” the lawsuit said. “In her desperate attempt to stop sexual assault on him, she would declare, ‘You’re married.’
The woman also claims that Francis Robinson knew about her husband’s “deviant misconduct” and includes resolving lawsuits with “other women who have experienced and experienced similar sexual assaults he perpetuated.”
Apart from Robinson’s alleged sexual misconduct, the woman allegedly claimed that the singer and his wife “perpetuated a hostile work environment.”
The woman claims that Smokey Robinson raped her almost two dozen
Another woman accusing Robinson of sexual abuse claims that the singer threatened her when she spoke about alleged misconduct.
The woman was anonymously identified as Jane Doe 2 and reportedly worked for Robinson and her wife from around May 2014 until February 2020. According to the lawsuit, Doe was repeatedly subjected to Robinson’s “brutal sexual advances” in late 2016.
The former housekeeper claimed that Robinson frequently requested that he meet him alone in various parts of his Los Angeles residence.
Do, who claimed that Robinson had attacked her at least 23 times, said that if the singer refused to have sex with his wife Francis, he threatened to be “mean” for her. Like Jane Doh1, the woman claimed that the couple created a “hostile work environment” that included verbal abuse and frequent pay.
Smokey Robinson is said to have offered to pay the housekeeper for sexual benefits
The woman who allegedly worked as a housekeeper for Robinson and his wife claims that at one point the singer offered to pay her in exchange for sexual activity.
The woman, identified anonymously as Jane Doe 3, was reportedly employed by the couple from around February 2012 to around April 2024, according to the lawsuit. During this time, Doe was often said to have been forced into Robinson’s bedroom. There, the singer is told, “After leaving the bathroom nude or taking a shower, you only wear underwear, then carefully place a towel on the bed to prevent the linen from getting dirty.”
The former housekeeper claimed that Robinson had oral sex and fucked her without her consent, making “unnecessary advances” including “touching her breasts, vagina and kissing her neck and mouth.”
Doe claimed that Robinson raped her at least 20 times through her employment. During the incident in which a woman allegedly refused the singer’s progress, Robinson reportedly offered $500 to have oral sex, an offer she allegedly refused.
Like her co-plaintiffs Jane Doh1 and Jane Doh2, the woman allegedly suffered from workplace misconduct, including verbal abuse and lack of proper compensation.
Woman claims Smokey Robinson attack at singer’s Las Vegas home
Another woman who worked as a housekeeper for Robinson claimed that the singer raped her during a work trip in the late 2000s.
The woman was identified as Jane Doe 4, who Robinson first allegedly sexually assaulted her when she accompanied the musician to her Las Vegas home in 2007.
During a visit to Robinson’s Vegas home, the praised singer drove Doe into his bedroom to rape her, raping her, allegedly causing a long-standing cycle of sexual assault, reportedly consisting of unnecessary attachment and kissing, forced sex and rape.
Like her Jane Doe’s counterpart, the woman alleged various labor violations by Robinson and his wife Francis.
All four women argued that they were threatened by the singer’s celebrity status, refraining from reporting alleged sexual misconduct in Robinson, fearing losing their livelihood and suffering “people embarrassment, shame and humiliation.”
The woman is seeking a ju trial and a series of damages in compensation for Robinson’s alleged abuse, including alleged negligence charges and intentional infringement of emotional distress. Some of the damages requested include payments of at least $50 million or more.
Who is Smokey Robinson?
Robinson is a singer-songwriter, former record executive and best known for establishing the iconic R&B group The Miracles. Robinson later became vice president of an inventive record label founded by Berry Gordy.
Robinson’s biggest hits include “Crusin,” “Being with You,” “Just To To See Her,” and “One Heartbeat.”
Robinson was introduced twice on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1983, first as a solo artist and then as a member of the Miracles in 2009.
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