Smokey Robinson denies sexual assault allegations

Motown fable Smokey Robinson has denied allegations of intersexual battle that were made by respective erstwhile employees.

In a suit filed connected Tuesday, 4 pistillate housekeepers accused the singer-songwriter of intersexual artillery including rape, positive mendacious imprisonment and a fig of labour violations.

In a connection to the BBC, Robinson's lawyer Christopher Frost called the allegations "vile" and "false".

"As this lawsuit progresses, the grounds (the important constituent that guides us) volition amusement that this is simply an disfigured method of trying to extract wealth from an 85-year-old American icon - $50 million, to beryllium exact," helium said.

Robinson was Motown's archetypal hitmaker, penning fig 1 hits similar Mary Wells' My Guy and the Temptations' My Girl.

He was some a endowment scout for the grounds statement and 1 of its astir salient signaling artists successful his ain right, known for songs similar Tracks of My Tears, Shop Around and Tears of a Clown.

He has spots successful some the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Halls of Fame, and claims to person credits connected much than 4,000 songs.

His 2nd wife, Frances, was besides named successful Tuesday's lawsuit, which claimed she contributed to a hostile enactment situation and failed to halt Robinson's alleged intersexual misconduct.

The women are suing nether the pseudonyms Jane Doe 1, 2, 3 and 4, owed to the intersexual misconduct allegations, including rape, being levelled against the musician.

In the 27-page suit they item respective incidents dating backmost to 2006 and allege they were pressured into sex.

All 4 women, who are of Hispanic descent, said they had not travel guardant until present due to the fact that they feared losing their livelihood, familial reprisal oregon embarrassment. Some were acrophobic the allegations could impact their migration status.

They are seeking astatine slightest $50m successful damages and a assemblage trial.

No constabulary reports oregon transgression charges person been filed against the musician.

The women's lawyers held a property league connected Tuesday, accusing Robinson of being a "serial and sick rapist" who "must beryllium stopped".

This drew the ire of the Robinson's ineligible team, who called it a "bizarre" effort "to enlist the nationalist arsenic an unwitting subordinate successful the media circus they are trying to create".

"We volition person much to accidental successful the coming days arsenic we marque our ineligible response, and successful clip Mr Robinson volition respond successful his ain words," Mr Frost said.

"We inquire anyone pursuing this lawsuit to reserve judgement arsenic the grounds comes to airy and each the existent facts of the lawsuit unfold.

"We volition beryllium asking the Court to disregard the lawsuit. We volition besides beryllium asking the Court to code that successful their statements to the property astir Mr Robinson, the plaintiff's attorneys person reached beyond the bounds of liberties that adjacent lawyers are typically allowed successful this context."