In a $500 million defamation and elder abuse motion of their very own, Smokey Robinson and his spouse are actually going after the 4 former workers who’ve accused the Motown legend of rape in a $50 million lawsuit.
“The Robinsons didn’t abuse, hurt or reap the benefits of plaintiffs; they handled plaintiffs with the utmost kindness and generosity,” a countersuit filed Wednesday in LA Superior Court docket asserts of the Jane Does. “Sadly, the depths of plaintiffs’ avarice and greed is aware of no bounds.”
Self-described “residing legend” Robinson and his lawyer Christopher Frost declare that the ladies tried at first to get $100 million out of the singer and his partner for his or her silence on the “fabricated” claims. The 4 supposedly solely turned to the courts once they had been rebuffed by the Robinsons. Right this moment’s countersuit makes be aware of Robinson’s new What The World Wants Now album that got here out in late April and the fallout the rape accusations and authorized motion has had on the performer’s profession the previous month.
Filed again on Might 6, the preliminary, the 16-claim civil motion alleges that the 85-year-old Robinson individually raped the every of the 4 girls a number of occasions in his properties in Las Vegas, Chatsworth and Bell Canyon in Ventura County through the years. With description of the “Crusin” singer ensuring to take a bathe earlier than the assaults and thoroughly laying a towel on the mattress to forestall stains, Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2, Jane Doe 3 and Jane Doe 4’s tales are almost an identical.
All of them additionally say that Frances Robinson, who has been married to “The Tears of a Clown” singer since 2002, not solely knew what her husband was doing and did nothing to cease it. In truth, the ladies, who the Robinsons termed “prolonged household” of their countersuit, insist Frances Robinson additionally ripped off the housekeepers on their wages and extra in a “hostile work atmosphere.” For the reason that $50 million rape swimsuit was filed earlier this month, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division has begun its personal felony probe into Robinson, because the cops confirmed on Might 15.
Turning the highlight to a press convention that the 4 girl and their Hayden & Harris legal professionals gave on Might 6, the identical day they filed their civil motion, the Robinsons declare now that the plaintiffs pressured them to sue again and, in a separate movement, in search of to have the preliminary swimsuit tossed out. “Due to Plaintiffs’ slanderous statements, the Robinsons had no selection however to hunt authorized reduction,” right this moment’s submitting says. “Plaintiffs might be able to make slanderous statements in a authorized pleading (for now), however they aren’t entitled to take action in gratuitous, self-serving press conferences.”
Citing a litany of help from dental work to vehicles and extra that the Robinsons say they gave the ladies in the course of the time they labored for the couple, the right this moment’s countersuit additionally not so subtly accuses the quartet of getting some strategically sticky fingers
“Shortly after the Plaintiffs left their jobs, Ms. Robinson found that a number of of her monetary information (together with financial institution statements) had been lacking, the 10-claim countersuit says. “A minimum of one Plaintiff had entry to and knew precisely the place these information had been saved. In that vein, Wednesday’s countersuit provides of the ladies: “On account of their roles as family workers, they’d specific information of the place the Robinsons’ valuables had been saved, together with a hidden protected and gold Krugerrands. That protected and the property it contained and several other gold Kruggerands had been later stolen by somebody who knew exactly the place they had been positioned. The Robinsons reported the theft to the police.”
Attorneys for the 4 girls who’ve accused Robinson of rape and extra didn’t reply to request for touch upon right this moment’s countersuit.