Smokey Robinson has filed a $500 million countersuit alleging defamation and elder abuse in opposition to 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 and extort cash from him and his spouse.
As reported by Rolling Stone, Robinson’s criticism accuses the 4 former housekeepers of conspiring with their lawyer to make “slanderous statements” in opposition to him and his spouse throughout a press convention on Could sixth.
In line with the submitting, the 85-year-old singer and his spouse handled the ladies as “prolonged household” throughout their employment, offering items that included cash for dental work, clothes, holidays, live performance tickets, and even a automotive.
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“The depths of plaintiffs’ avarice and greed is aware of no bounds,” the countersuit reads. “Throughout the very time that the Robinsons have been being terribly beneficiant with plaintiffs, plaintiffs have been concocting an extortionate plan to take the whole lot from the Robinsons (the whole lot 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 courtroom to require the ladies to refile their preliminary criticism underneath their authorized names, arguing that “the allegations within the criticism are thus far faraway from the reality that the Robinsons can not establish which Doe is whom.” California civil actions permit for the usage of pseudonyms if events can show 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 line with the ladies’s criticism, every plaintiff was afraid to report Robinson to authorities because of concern of dropping their jobs and potential reprisal in opposition to themselves and their households. They’re searching for damages of a minimum of $50 million for claims together with sexual assault, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and gender violence.