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 compelled to resign attributable to Defendant Smokey Robinson’s repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment in opposition to 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 together with his fingers, orally copulate her and proceed to penetrate her vagina together with his erect penis inflicting her nice ache.”
Filed at this time in L.A. 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 forestall stains, the tales from Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, Jane Doe 3, and Jane Doe 4 are remarkably related within the worst of how.
“Defendant Smokey Robinson loved ejaculating in her vagina with out utilizing a condom,” Jane Doe 1 states the go well with from the LA agency of Harris and Hayden. “JD1 would protest and resist his sexual assaults however to no avail. In a determined try to get him to cease his sexual assaults, she would proclaim ‘you’re married’,’ to which he would casually ignore.”
All the plaintiffs accuse Frances Robinson, who has been married to the now 85-year-old Kennedy Heart Honoree since 2002 of making a “hostile work surroundings” with screaming at staffers and skimping on their rightful pay. The 4 ladies additionally say that Frances Robinson “did not take the suitable corrective motion to forestall Defendant Smokey Robinson’s deviant misconduct in opposition to JD2, regardless of having full data of his prior acts of sexual misconduct, having settled instances with different ladies that suffered and skilled related sexual assaults perpetuated by him.”
Reps for Robinson didn’t reply to request for remark from Deadline on the go well with and its claims.
Nevertheless, anticipating those that will try to 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 at this time’s go well with.
Like the opposite three ladies who’re her co-plaintiffs, JD1 says she “was unwilling to report Defendant’s Smokey Robinson’s illegal acts to the authorities attributable to her worry of shedding her livelihood, familial reprisal, public embarrassment, disgrace and humiliation to her and her household, the attainable opposed impact on her immigration standing, in addition to being threatened and intimidated by Defendant Smokey Robinson’s well-recognized movie star standing and his influential buddies and associates.”
