Smokey Robinson Claims Rape Accusations Are ‘Vile,’ ‘False’

Smokey Robinson‘s lawyer responded to allegations that the the singer sexually harassed and raped 4 former housekeepers, calling them “vile” and indicating that they are going to be searching for a dismissal of the lawsuit towards the Motown icon.

In an announcement to Rolling Stone despatched Wednesday, lawyer Christopher Frost mentioned that because the case unfolds, proof “will present that that is merely an unpleasant technique of making an attempt to extract cash from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 million, to be actual.” The lawyer accused the plaintiff’s authorized staff of utilizing “weird theatrics” throughout a information convention Tuesday and of constructing “vile, false allegations towards Mr. and Mrs. Robinson” in an try and “enlist the general public as an unwitting participant within the media circus they’re making an attempt to create.” (Robinson’s spouse, Frances, was named as a co-defendant within the lawsuit underneath claims of selling a hostile work setting, negligence, and intentional and negligent emotional misery.)

Frost requested these following the case “to order judgment because the proof involves mild” and mentioned that they are going to be addressing “the quite a few features of the grievance that defy credulity in addition to points referring to purported timelines, inconsistencies, and relationships between the plaintiffs and others.”

“We will even be asking the Courtroom to deal with that of their statements to the press about Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff’s attorneys have reached past the bounds of liberties that even legal professionals are sometimes allowed on this context,” Frost continued. The lawyer added that they’d have extra to say within the coming days and that Robinson will likely be responding to the allegations in his personal phrases, however didn’t specify when.

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, 4 ladies alleged that the soul singer and producer remoted them at his houses within the San Fernando Valley and Las Vegas and compelled them into sexual contact regardless of their protests. The lawsuit included claims for sexual assault, sexual battery, false imprisonment, and gender violence towards Robinson.

“Clearly, no amount of cash can compensate these ladies for what Mr. Robinson subjected them to, however given the gravity of Mr. Robinson’s despicable and reprehensible misconduct, that’s additional detailed within the grievance, this quantity is clearly warranted,” lawyer John W. Harris mentioned at the press convention.

Three of the Jane Does say they have been unwilling to report the alleged abuse as a result of they have been afraid of dropping their jobs and doable “antagonistic” outcomes associated to their immigration standing. They have been “intimidated” by Robinson’s “well-recognized celeb standing and his influential pals and associates,” the lawsuit states.