Alleging rape and different abuse over the interval from 2007 to 2024, 4 former housekeepers of Smokey Robinson and Frances Robinson are suing the Motown legend and his partner for $50 million in a sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, labor violations, and gender violence lawsuit.
“JD1 started working for Defendants as their housekeeper at their Chatsworth residence on January 3, 2023 till February 2024, when she was pressured to resign attributable to Defendant Smokey Robinson’s repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment towards her,” says Jane Doe 1, who claims the primary rape by octogenarian Robinson occurred in March 2023. In descriptive phrases, Jane Doe 1 alleges within the 27-page submitting that the Rock’n’Roll Corridor of Famer “would roughly penetrate her vagina along with his fingers, orally copulate her and proceed to penetrate her vagina along with his erect penis inflicting her nice ache.”
Filed immediately in LA Superior Court docket, the 16-claim civil motion alleges that the ‘Cruisin’ singer individually raped the quartet of girls in his houses in Las Vegas, Chatsworth, and Bell Canyon in Ventura County over time. From Robinson having a shower earlier than the assaults, and placing a towel on the mattress to stop stains, the tales from Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, Jane Doe 3, and Jane Doe 4 are remarkably related within the worst of the way.
“Defendant Smokey Robinson loved ejaculating in her vagina with out utilizing a condom,” Jane Doe 1 states the swimsuit from the LA agency of Harris and Hayden. “JD1 would protest and resist his sexual assaults however to no avail. In a determined try and get him to cease his sexual assaults, she would proclaim ‘you’re married’,’ to which he would casually ignore.”
The entire plaintiffs accuse Frances Robinson, who has been married to the now 85-year-old Kennedy Heart Honoree since 2002 of making a “hostile work atmosphere” with screaming at staffers and skimping on their rightful pay. The 4 girls additionally say that Frances Robinson “did not take the suitable corrective motion to stop Defendant Smokey Robinson’s deviant misconduct towards JD2, regardless of having full information of his prior acts of sexual misconduct, having settled circumstances with different girls that suffered and skilled related sexual assaults perpetuated by him”
Reps for Robinson didn’t reply to request for remark from Deadline on the swimsuit and its claims.
Nonetheless, anticipating those that will try and reject her claims by falling again on why the ladies didn’t do one thing earlier to cease Robinson’s alleged assaults, JD1 took the offense in immediately’s swimsuit.
Like the opposite three girls who’re her co-plaintidffdfs, says she “was unwilling to report Defendant’s Smokey Robinson’s illegal acts to the authorities attributable to her worry of dropping her livelihood, familial reprisal, public embarrassment, disgrace and humiliation to her and her household, the attainable adversarial impact on her immigration standing, in addition to being threatened and intimidated by Defendant Smokey Robinson’s well-recognized superstar standing and his influential pals and associates.”
