Motown legend Smokey Robinson is going through a multimillion dollar lawsuit from 4 former housekeepers who allege the soul singer repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted them.
A lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles courtroom claims the 85-year-old compelled himself on the ladies a number of instances over a lot of years, usually when his spouse was not at house.
One of the plaintiffs alleges the “Tracks of My Tears” singer would summon her to his bed room in his Los Angeles space house, and greet her sporting solely his underwear.
He would then sexually assault her, regardless of her protestations, with the swimsuit claiming there have been seven such assaults between March 2023 and when she felt compelled to resign in February 2024.
Another former housekeeper alleges Robinson assaulted her greater than 20 instances over a four-year interval, whereas a 3rd says within the swimsuit that she was “sexually harassed, sexually assaulted and raped” all through her 12-year employment to 2024.
The fourth girl says the singer started assaulting her in 2007 when she traveled with him to his Las Vegas house.
None of the ladies is called within the swimsuit, which is widespread in circumstances involving claims of sexual assault.
The swimsuit, which is searching for not less than $50 million in damages, says not one of the ladies reported the assaults on the time as a result of they had been intimidated by Robinson’s movie star, and feared assaults on their character.
There was no fast response to AFP’s makes an attempt to contact Robinson’s representatives.
Robinson was one of many founding members of The Miracles, a Detroit-based outfit that got here collectively within the Fifties.
The group had dozens of chart hits, together with the smash “The Tears of a Clown” in 1967.
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