{"id":5846,"date":"2025-05-16T14:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/smokey-robinson-faces-criminal-investigation-for-sexual-assault-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:42:58","slug":"smokey-robinson-faces-criminal-investigation-for-sexual-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/smokey-robinson-faces-criminal-investigation-for-sexual-assault-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokey Robinson Faces Criminal Investigation for Sexual Assault Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tT<\/span>he housekeepers suing Smokey Robinson for sexual assault have now filed a police report, leading the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department to open a criminal investigation on top of the bombshell civil claims filed against the 85-year-old Motown legend.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawyers for four anonymous housekeepers, who alleged in a $50 million lawsuit earlier this month that William \u201cSmokey\u201d Robinson Jr. repeatedly raped them over the course of nearly two decades, confirm in a Thursday (May 15) statement to Billboard <\/em>that criminal authorities are probing the claims. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are pleased to learn that the LA County Sheriff\u2019s Department has opened a criminal investigation into our clients\u2019 claims of sexual assault against Smokey Robinson,\u201d say attorneys John Harris<\/strong> and Herbert Hayden<\/strong>. \u201cOur clients intend to fully cooperate with LASD\u2019s ongoing investigation in the pursuit of seeking justice for themselves and others that may have been similarly assaulted by him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRobinson\u2019s lawyer Christopher Frost<\/strong> says in his own statement to Billboard<\/em> that the housekeepers\u2019 claims are \u201cmanufactured \u201c and motivated by \u201cunadulterated avarice.\u201d Frost notes that police did not launch a criminal probe unilaterally; rather that the Sheriff\u2019s Department is required to investigate because the women filed a police report.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe welcome that investigation, which involves plaintiffs who continue to hide their identities, because exposure to the truth is a powerful thing,\u201d Frost says. \u201cWe feel confident that a determination will be made that Mr. Robinson did nothing wrong, and that this is a desperate attempt to prejudice public opinion and make even more of a media circus than the Plaintiffs were previously able to create.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Sheriff\u2019s Department did not immediately return a request for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tRobinson, who\u2019s currently on a legacy tour celebrating the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of his album A Quiet Storm<\/em>, was accused in the May 6 civil lawsuit of forcing housekeepers to have oral and vaginal sex in his Los Angeles-area bedroom dozens of times between 2007 and 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer\u2019s wife, Frances Robinson, is also named in the lawsuit. The housekeepers say she did nothing to stop her husband\u2019s abuse, despite knowing that he had a history of sexual misconduct and had previously struck settlements with assault victims.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit also says the Robinsons paid their employees below minimum wage, and that Frances Robinson created a hostile work environment replete with screaming and \u201cracially-charged epithets.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSmokey and Frances Robinson have fiercely denied the housekeepers\u2019 claims, saying through Frost on May 7 that the \u201cvile, false allegations\u201d are merely \u201can ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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