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Motown fable Smokey Robinson is erstwhile again nether scrutiny with renewed allegations of intersexual assault.
Authorities investigated a erstwhile intersexual battle allegation against Robinson successful 2015, but nary charges were filed owed to insufficient evidence, prosecutors said Friday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's bureau confirmed the decade-old probe and its determination to diminution charges successful a connection Friday. The bureau said nary details would beryllium provided due to the fact that of the existent probe of Robinson.
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Smokey Robinson faces caller scrutiny aft a 2015 intersexual battle probe closed. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Robinson’s attorney, Christopher Frost, said successful a connection they are "pleased" the territory lawyer "confirmed determination was nary ground to record charges a decennary ago."
"One unfortunate facet of personage is that it is not uncommon to beryllium the people of spurious and unsubstantiated allegations," Frost said. "Mr. Robinson looks guardant to the decision of the existent probe and has nary uncertainty that a akin determination volition beryllium reached here."
Robinson, 85, was accused of intersexual misconduct and mendacious imprisonment May 6 in a $50 cardinal lawsuit filed by 4 unnamed erstwhile employees, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
The suit said Robinson harassed and assaulted his erstwhile housekeepers who worked astatine his Chatsworth location betwixt 2006 and 2024.
Frances, Robinson's woman of 25 years, was besides accused of perpetuating a "hostile enactment environment."
Robinson's lawyer antecedently called the housekeepers' allegations "vile" and "false."
Frances, Robinson's woman of 25 years, was besides accused of perpetuating a "hostile enactment environment." (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP via Getty Images)
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Earlier this week, Robinson and his woman filed a $500 cardinal cross-complaint against the erstwhile unit members. In tribunal documents filed Wednesday successful LA Superior Court, the mates impeach the 4 Jane Does and their ineligible representatives of slander, fiscal elder abuse, intentional infliction of affectional distress, penetration of privacy, civilian conspiracy and different claims.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's bureau confirmed the decade-old probe and its determination not to record charges. (Lester Cohen)
The suit alleges that the accusations against Robinson were "fabricated successful enactment of their extortionate scheme." The documents further stated that "Mr. and Ms. Robinson did not view, oregon treat, radical successful their employment arsenic conscionable employees. They treated them arsenic extended family."
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According to the cross-complaint, the Robinsons had vacationed with the accusers, exchanged gifts and celebrated holidays and birthdays together. The suit stated that the plaintiffs "asked for and accepted assistance from the Robinsons, including respective thousands of dollars, monetary enactment for members of astatine slightest 1 Plaintiff’s family, clothes, dental surgery, and adjacent a car."
The Jane Does' lawyers, John Harris and Herbert Hayden, who were named arsenic defendants successful the Robinsons' cross-complaint on with their steadfast Harris & Hayden, responded to the suit successful a connection to Fox News Digital.
Robinson was a cardinal fig successful the Motown Records instrumentality of the 1960s. (Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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"The cross-complaint filed by Mr. Christopher Frost connected behalf of William ‘Smokey’ Robinson and Frances Robinson is thing much than an effort to soundlessness and intimidate the survivors of Mr. Robinson's sexual battery and assault," they said.
"It is simply a baseless and vindictive ineligible maneuver designed to re-victimize, displacement blasted and discourage others from coming forward. This benignant of retaliatory litigation is precisely what California’s anti-SLAPP laws were enacted to prevent."
Robinson is simply a subordinate of some the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was a cardinal fig successful the Motown Records instrumentality of the 1960s arsenic some an creator and a writer and was 1 of the apical hitmakers of the epoch with songs similar "Tears of a Clown" and "The Tracks of My Tears."
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Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume, Tracy Wright and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and connected Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.
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