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    Smokey Robinson’s lawyer: Lawsuit is an ‘ugly methodology’ to get cash from ‘an America icon’

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    Smokey Robinson’s lawyer plans to ask the court docket to dismiss a lawsuit filed this week towards the singer by 4 former workers. The ladies are looking for at the least $50 million, accusing Robinson of repeated sexual misconduct and alleging he and his spouse, Frances, violated labor legal guidelines.

    “We will have more to say in the coming days as we make our legal response, and in time Mr. Robinson will respond in his own words,” lawyer Christopher Frost mentioned in a Wednesday assertion to The Occasions. “As this case progresses, the evidence (the crucial element that guides us) will show that this is simply an ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 million dollars, to be exact.”

    Frost, a founding associate of Frost LLP, referred to as the allegations “vile” and “false” and mentioned “numerous aspects of the complaint … defy credulity.” The authorized response looking for dismissal will handle “issues relating to purported timelines, inconsistencies, and relationships between the plaintiffs and others,” he mentioned.

    “We ask anyone following this case to reserve judgment as the evidence comes to light and all the actual facts of the case unfold,” Frost mentioned.

    The civil go well with, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, accuses the Robinsons of negligence, sexual battery and sexual assault, false imprisonment, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional misery, gender violence, and hostile work setting, along with a number of labor violations associated to wages, breaks, meal durations, and vacation and time beyond regulation pay.

    “I am appalled,” Smokey Robinson informed the Each day Mail in a telephone name Wednesday earlier than reportedly devolving into mumbles about being contacted at dwelling. “I can’t speak about this right now,” he added.

    The ladies are suing below the pseudonyms Jane Doe 1 by 4 due to the sexual misconduct allegations, together with rape, which can be leveled towards the lead singer of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the lawsuit says. Three are former housekeepers and one was the singer’s private assistant, cook dinner and hairdresser, per court docket paperwork reviewed by The Occasions.

    Jane Doe 1 labored for the Robinsons from January 2023 till February 2024. Jane Doe 2 labored from Might 2014 to February 2020. Jane Doe 3 labored from February 2012 to April 2024. Jane Doe 4 labored from October 2006 to April 2024.

    All 4 girls allege within the lawsuit that he “summoned” them to numerous locations at his properties in Chatsworth, Ventura County’s Bell Canyon and Las Vegas when his spouse wasn’t round. Generally rising bare from a bathe, he pressured them to have numerous kinds of intercourse with them — vaginal, oral and digital — over various years, the lawsuit says.

    They accuse Frances Robinson, who married Smokey in 2002, of “regularly screaming … in a hostile manner, using ethnically pejorative words and language” towards them. They are saying within the paperwork that she knew what her husband was doing and didn’t rein him in.

    One plaintiff mentioned she didn’t wish to report the alleged actions as a result of she was afraid of dropping her job and being publicly shamed. She additionally fearful about her immigration standing and threats and intimidation as a result of Robinson’s celeb standing and “influential friends and associates,” the lawsuit says. These sentiments, with or with out the immigration subject, have been echoed by the opposite plaintiffs.

    The plaintiffs say within the lawsuit that they give up due to the alleged sexual misconduct and hostile work setting.

    All 4 say within the grievance that they labored 10 hours a day, six days per week for the Robinsons however weren’t paid minimal wage or time beyond regulation. In addition they labored holidays with out receiving a vacation price, the lawsuit says. The housekeepers made between $10 and $18 an hour whereas the assistant made $15 an hour earlier than getting a elevate to $20 an hour.

    Minimal wage in California was $6.75 per hour in 2006 and elevated progressively through the years. In 2024, it was $16 per hour for these not working for giant fast-food chains. In Los Angeles County in July 2024, the minimal wage was $17.27 per hour, whereas the minimal in Las Vegas was $12 per hour.

    “We will have more to say on this matter,” lawyer Frost mentioned in his assertion, “as we fiercely defend our clients against these false allegations and work to protect their good names.”

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