Smokey Robinson has filed a $500 million countersuit alleging defamation and elder abuse towards 4 former workers who sued him for sexual assault earlier this month. Within the cross-complaint, Robinson alleges the ladies “fabricated” their claims in an try to extort cash from him and his spouse.
As reported by Rolling Stone, Robinson’s grievance accuses the 4 former housekeepers of conspiring with their legal professional to make “slanderous statements” towards him and his spouse throughout a press convention on Might sixth.
In accordance with the submitting, the 85-year-old singer and his spouse handled the ladies as “prolonged household” throughout their employment, offering presents that included cash for dental work, clothes, holidays, live performance tickets, and even a automobile.
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“The depths of plaintiffs’ avarice and greed is aware of no bounds,” the countersuit reads. “In the course of the very time that the Robinsons have been being terribly beneficiant with plaintiffs, plaintiffs have been concocting an extortionate plan to take all the pieces from the Robinsons (all the pieces over and above what they have been freely given) and wrongfully destroy the Robinsons’ well-built reputations.”
In a associated movement, Robinson and his spouse have requested the court docket to require the ladies to refile their preliminary grievance underneath their authorized names, arguing that “the allegations within the grievance are thus far faraway from the reality that the Robinsons can’t establish which Doe is whom.” California civil actions permit for using pseudonyms if events can display that utilizing their actual names may trigger particular hurt.
The unique lawsuit filed by the 4 Jane Does accused Robinson of repeated sexual assault occurring between 2007 and 2024. Robinson’s spouse was additionally named as a defendant in that go well with for allegedly failing to stop his actions regardless of “having full information of his prior acts of sexual misconduct.”
In accordance with the ladies’s grievance, every plaintiff was afraid to report Robinson to authorities as a consequence of concern of dropping their jobs and potential reprisal towards themselves and their households. They’re in search of damages of at least $50 million for claims together with sexual assault, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and gender violence.
