Smokey Robinson accused of sexual misconduct by four ex-employees
Smokey Robinson has been accused of sexual assault by four former employees, who are seeking at least $50,000,000 in damages.
Smokey Robinson has been accused of sexual assault by four former employees.
The 85-year-old Motown star is the subject of a complaint filed in Los Angeles Suerior Court on Tuesday (06.05.25), in which he was accused of sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, gender violence and creating a hostile work environment by four women who worked for him.
According to documents obtained by People magazine, the plaintiffs alleged the sexual battery was "willful, wanton, and malicious, with a conscious disregard" of their "rights, privacy, and feelings."
The 'Being With You' singer's wife, Frances Robinson, is also named in the lawsuit, with the first accuser, known anonymously as Jane Doe 1, aeging she had "full knowledge of his prior acts of sexual misconduct" and "failed to take the appropriate corrective action" to prevent his "deviant misconduct", even after settling cases with other women who had made similar accusations.
She claimed she experienced "repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment", with the first incident allegedly occurring in March 2023, while Jane Doe 2 claimed she was "forced to resign" in 2020 after six years of employment due to Smokey's "repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment", which she stated had begun in 2016.
Jane Doe 3 - who worked as a housekeeper for Smokey from 2012 until 2024 - alleged she was "raped" from behind "at least 20 times" and eventually had to resign due to repeated incidents of "sexual assaults and sexual harassment against her".
And the fourth housekeeper made similar allegations, having resigned from her job - which she started in 2006 - last year, which she also claimed she had to do after suffering "repeated sexual assaults and sexual harassment" over the years.
The accusers are seeking at least $50,000,000 in damages.
A spokesperson for Smokey - who had two children with first wife Claudette Rogers and fathered a son with another woman during their marriage - has yet to comment on the allegations.
Smokey recently insisted people are capable of loving multiple people at once but the idea has been made "taboo" by society.
He told The Guardian newspaper:: “You asked me what happened when we get older, and we get wisdom in life. I learned that we are capable of loving more than one person at the same time. And it has been made taboo by us. By people.
"It’s not because one person isn’t worthy or they don’t live up to what you expect – it has to do with feelings. If we could control love, nobody would love anybody. Nobody would take that chance.
"Why would you put your heart out there for somebody to be able to hurt you like that and make you able to have those feelings?”
