Smokey Robinson hits back with $500M lawsuit against sexual assault accusers

Smokey Robinson has filed a $500 cardinal cross-complaint against 4 anonymous erstwhile employees who accused him of intersexual assault, intersexual misconduct and mendacious imprisonment successful a $50 cardinal suit they filed earlier this month. 

In tribunal documents filed Wednesday successful LA Superior Court and obtained by Fox News Digital, the 85-year-old vocalist and his woman Frances sued the 4 Jane Does and their ineligible representatives for slander, fiscal elder abuse, intentional infliction of affectional distress, penetration of privacy, civilian conspiracy and different claims. 

The suit alleges that the accusations made by women 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."

SMOKEY ROBINSON ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ASSAULT BY FORMER HOUSEKEEPERS IN $50M LAWSUIT

Smokey Robinson filed a $500 cardinal suit against 4 erstwhile employees who accused him of intersexual assault. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

According to the cross-complaint, the Robinsons had vacationed with the accusers, exchanged gifts and celebrated holidays and birthdays together. The suit stated that "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 documents claimed that the accusers had asked for and received performance tickets to the Motown legend's concerts for themselves and their families. The suit included displays of substance messages that were allegedly sent by the accusers to the Robinsons. The texts featured day wishes, expressions of emotion and an invitation to a son's graduation.  

"The Robinsons did not abuse, harm, oregon instrumentality vantage of Plaintiffs; they treated Plaintiffs with the utmost kindness and generosity," the suit stated. "Unfortunately, the depths of Plaintiffs’ avarice and greed knows nary bounds."

Smokey Robinson's 2nd wife, Frances Robinson, was besides accused successful the archetypal lawsuit. (Frazer Harrison)

The suit alleges that the accusers, with the assistance of their instrumentality steadfast Harris & Hayden, had initially sought $100 cardinal from the Robinsons anterior to filing their lawsuit. After the accusers' demands were not met, they filed the suit and "created a media circus and made a nationalist spectacle of themselves," the suit stated.

The documents referenced a property league that was fixed by the accusers' attorneys connected May 6 and attended by 3 of the 4 Jane Does. 

"With the assistance of their ineligible counsel, they paraded themselves successful beforehand of the media, wearing sunglasses and look masks for afloat melodramatic effect," the suit read. "Their counsel, John Harris, with nary firsthand cognition and without notation to the Complaint they had filed, went connected to assertion publically that Mr. Robinson was a 'serial and sick rapist' and a 'serial assaulter.'"

"Plaintiffs are hiding their identities, hoping to person the wide nationalist of a fractional story," the suit alleged.

The Robinsons' squad claimed that 1 accuser "took Ms. Robinson’s compartment telephone and deleted each their substance exchanges, photos, and identifying information."

Earlier successful May, the accusers filed a $50 cardinal intersexual misconduct suit against Smokey Robinson and his wife. (Michael Buckner)

The suit besides suggested that the accusers could person perchance stolen from the musician and his woman during their employment. 

"Doe Plaintiffs had the perfect entree to instrumentality vantage of the Robinsons," the documents read. "As a effect of their roles arsenic household staff, they had peculiar cognition of wherever the Robinsons’ valuables were kept, including a hidden harmless and golden Krugerrands. That harmless and the valuables it contained and respective golden Kruggerands were aboriginal stolen by idiosyncratic who knew precisely wherever they were located. The Robinsons reported the theft to the police."

Additionally, the Robinsons' lawyers authorities that Frances had discovered that she was missing fiscal records, including slope statements, and noted "at slightest 1 Plaintiff had entree to and knew precisely wherever these records were kept."

The cross-complaint argued that the accusers "said thing astir the Robinsons that would suggest immoderate maltreatment oregon harm."

"At slightest 1 Plaintiff near the employment of the Robinsons and returned, undercutting their claims that Plaintiffs were excessively acrophobic to study immoderate alleged abuse," the documents stated.

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In summation to the transverse complaint, the Robinsons' lawyers filed a abstracted question connected Wednesday to person the accusers' suit dismissed, arguing that it violated the California Code of Civic Procedure due to the fact that it was filed nether fictitious names.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the accusers' attorneys astatine Harris & Hayden of Los Angeles for comment. 

The vocalist is suing the women and their attorneys for slander and elder abuse, among different claims. (Lester Cohen)

In the suit against Robison, which was filed connected May 6, the accusers identified themselves arsenic 4 erstwhile housekeepers who worked astatine his Chatsworth location betwixt 2006 and 2024. The women alleged that the vocalist repeatedly assaulted and raped them during their employment. 

Frances, Robinson's wife of 25 years, was besides accused of perpetuating a "hostile enactment environment." 

The accusers claimed Frances "failed to instrumentality the due corrective enactment to forestall Defendant Smokey Robinson’s deviant misconduct" contempt having "full cognition of his anterior acts of intersexual misconduct, having settled cases with different women that suffered and experienced akin intersexual assaults perpetuated by him."

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Jane Doe 1 worked for the vocalist from January 2023 done February 2024 but was forced to resign owed to his "repeated intersexual assaults and intersexual harassment against her," the suit states. 

She claimed Robinson sexually assaulted her "at slightest 7 times" portion she was employed by the family. She was unwilling to study the incidents owed to "her fearfulness of losing her livelihood, familial reprisal, nationalist embarrassment, shame and humiliation to her and her family, the imaginable adverse effect connected her migration status, arsenic good arsenic being threatened and intimidated by Defendant Smokey Robinson’s well-recognized personage presumption and his influential friends and associates," documents stated.

Smokey Robinson's woman Frances was accused of perpetuating a "hostile enactment environment." (ADRIAN SANCHEZ-GONZALEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Jane Doe 2 (JD2) claimed intersexual assaults began successful 2016 erstwhile the "Tracks of My Tears" vocalist would nonstop substance messages for JD2 to conscionable him successful areas of the Chatsworth location wherever closed-circuit cameras were not located. Upon arrival, she claimed helium would "proceed to rape her."

JD2 besides claimed Robinson assaulted her astatine slightest 23 times and would "threaten her that if she refused to person enactment with him, helium would marque Defendant Frances Robinson beryllium ‘mean’ to her," the suit states.

Jane Doe 3 (JD3) alleged Robinson repeatedly raped her during "most of her full employment with Defendants," which began successful February 2012 and ended with her forced resignation successful April 2024.

She claimed Robinson "repeatedly raped" her astatine slightest 20 times, and, connected 1 occasion, erstwhile she resisted his advances, Robinson allegedly offered JD3 "$500 to let him to orally copulate her, an connection she refused," according to documents.

Smokey Robinson performs unrecorded circa 1980. (Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Jane Doe 4 worked arsenic a housekeeper and served arsenic Frances' idiosyncratic assistant, navigator and hairdresser, opening successful October 2006. She claimed Smokey archetypal sexually assaulted her the pursuing twelvemonth astatine his Las Vegas home.

In summation to intersexual artillery and assault, the 4 women sued for negligence, intentional infliction of affectional distress, sex unit and a fig of labour codification violations. 

On May 15, a typical for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that it had opened an probe into the allegations against Robinson. No charges person yet been filed. 

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Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report.