Four former employees have sued Motown Smokey Robinson's legend and his wife, claiming that the singer sexually assaulted them on multiple occasions and did not pay them properly for hours worked while claiming that Frances Robinson rebuked them.
According to the complaint filed on May 6 in the Superior Court of the Los Angeles County, the Robinson are accused of negligence, sexual assault and sexual aggression, false imprisonment, intentional and negligent infiction of emotional anguish, gender violence and hostile work environment, in addition to a series of labor violations related to wages, breaks, periods of food and vacations and vacations and extreme time payments.
The lawyers of the plaintiffs did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comments from the Times. A former singer publicist said he was currently not working for Smokey Robinson; His talent agent did not respond immediately to the request for comments of the Times.
Women are demanding under the pseudonyms Jane Doe 1 to 4 due to accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, including rape, who are level against the 85 -year -old singer, says the demand. Three are former housewives and one was the personal assistant of the singer, cook and hairdresser, according to the court documents reviewed by The Times.
The four women allege in the demand that Robinson summoned them to several places in their homes in Chatsworth, Bell Canyon from Ventura County and Las Vegas when his wife was not close. Sometimes emerging naked from a shower, he forced them to have several types of sex with them, vaginal, oral and digital, for several years, says the demand.
They accuse Frances Robinson of “shouting regularly … hostile, using ethnically pejorative words and language” towards them and say in the documents that he knew what her husband was doing and could not control it.
A plaintiff “was not willing to inform … Smokey Robinson's illegal acts before the authorities due to his fear of losing his livelihood, family reprisal, public shame, shame and humiliation of her and her family, the possible adverse effect in their state of immigration, as well as threatened and intimidated by the smoke of the accused, the state of the celebration and their influence and their influence and their influence.
That feeling, with or without the immigration problem, was echoed by the other plaintiffs.
The four plaintiffs say they worked 10 hours a day, six days a week for the Robinson, but they were not paid a minimum salary or overtime. They also worked vacations without receiving a vacation rate, says the demand. The housewives won between $ 10 and $ 18 per hour, while the assistant won $ 15 per hour before obtaining an increase at $ 20 per hour.
Jane Doe 1 worked for the Robinson from January 2023 to February 2024. Jane Doe 2 worked from May 2014 to February 2020. Jane Doe 3 worked from February 2012 to April 2024. Jane Doe 4 worked from October 2006 to April 2024.
The minimum wage in California was $ 6.75 per hour in 2006 and gradually increased over the years. In 2024, it was $ 16 per hour for those who did not work for large fast food chains. In Los Angeles County in July 2024, the minimum wage was $ 17.27 per hour, while the minimum in Las Vegas was $ 12 per hour.
The plaintiffs say in the demand they renounce due to the supposed inappropriate sexual behavior and the hostile work environment.
In addition to legal fees and judicial costs, the demand seeks general damage of “no less than $ 50 million” in most of the most punitive damage that will be determined in the trial.
