4 girls who labored for Smokey Robinson as housekeepers have sued the famed Motown singer for sexual assault, in response to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Tuesday and obtained by The Hollywood Reporter.
Within the criticism, filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, the 4 nameless girls accuse Robinson of raping them at a number of of his residences, most primarily at his residence in Chatsworth, California. The listed causes of motion embody negligence, sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and a hostile work surroundings, amongst different claims. The ladies additionally claimed the defendants didn’t pay them minimal wage.
Robinson’s spouse, Frances Robinson, was named as a defendant as properly, with the ladies claiming that she “didn’t take the suitable corrective motion to forestall Defendant Robinson’s deviant misconduct regardless of having full information of his prior acts of sexual misconduct,” stating Robinson had settled claims with different girls.
The primary plaintiff, recognized as Jane Doe 1, claimed that she labored for Robinson at his residence on weekends for a few 12 months from January 2023 to February 2024. Jane Doe 2 alleged she labored for Robinson from 2014 to 2020; Jane Doe 3 claimed Robinson employed her from February 2012 to April 2024; and Jane Doe 4 stated she labored for Robinson from October 2006 to April 22, 2024. All 4 of the plaintiffs declare they had been “compelled to resign on account of Defendant Smokey Robinson’s repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment.”
The 4 Jane Does claimed that they didn’t report their allegations to the authorities over concern of “dropping their livelihoods, familial reprisal, public embarrassment and disgrace and humiliation.” The primary three Jane Does additionally claimed they feared hostile impression on their immigration standing. All 4 additionally claimed Robinson usually screamed at them, “utilizing ethnically pejorative phrases and language.”
A rep for Robinson didn’t instantly reply to THR’s request for remark.
Jane Doe 1 alleged that Robinson would assault her after driving his spouse to the nail salon on the weekends. After he’d return residence, she alleged, Robinson would name her into his bed room, the place he’d be “showered and clothed solely in his underwear.”
“Defendant Smokey Robinson would then start to kiss JD1 in her mouth, neck and breasts,” the go well with alleged the go well with alleged, describing digital, oral and penetration by penis. Jane Doe 1 alleged she “would protest and resist his sexual assaults however to no avail,” and that Robinson assaulted her no less than seven instances.
Jane Doe 2 claimed that “Robinson’s brutal sexual advances had been fixed and even predictable,” alleging that Robinson assaulted her in different rooms of his residence the place there have been no cameras, such because the laundry room or storage. Jane Doe 2 alleged that Robinson would summon her, at which level “he would instantly seize her and start to penetrate her” digitally, “inflicting excruciating ache, after which would proceed to rape her.” Jane Doe 2 claimed Robinson would threaten her if she refused to have intercourse with him, claiming Robinson sexually assaulted her 23 instances.
Jane Doe 3 claimed Robinson “sexually assaulted and raped JD3 throughout most of her total employment,” no less than 20 instances. Jane Doe 4 claimed Robinson first sexually assaulted her in 2007, a 12 months after she first began working for him and Frances Robinson as a housekeeper, private assistant, prepare dinner and hairdresser. She claimed Robinson raped her at his Las Vegas residence after she accompanied him there from Los Angeles. She alleged that Robinson “would usually create a state of affairs or seize the chance the place he could be alone with JD4 at their Chatsworth residence.”
She claimed the alleged habits “continued to the very day she determined to resign her employment with the Defendants.”
