Smokey Robinson is below a legal investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division after being accused of sexual assault.
The sheriff’s division shared in a press release with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, “The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division Particular Victims Bureau is actively investigating legal allegations involving William Robinson aka ‘Smokey Robinson.’ The investigation is within the early phases, and we’ve no additional remark.”
In response to the investigation, Robinson’s legal professional, Christopher Frost, wrote in a press release, “We’re conscious {that a} police report has now been filed by the Plaintiffs within the civil lawsuit. It’s clear to us what is occurring right here. Plaintiffs filed a police report solely after they filed a $50 million lawsuit. This implies solely that the police at the moment are required to research.”
“We welcome that investigation, which includes Plaintiffs who proceed to cover their identities, as a result of publicity to the reality is a robust factor,” the assertion continued. “We really feel assured {that a} willpower can be made that Mr. Robinson did nothing improper, and that it is a determined try and prejudice public opinion and make much more of a media circus than the Plaintiffs have been beforehand capable of create. The document will in the end display that that is nothing greater than a manufactured lawsuit meant to tarnish the great names of Smokey and Frances Robinson, for no different motive than unadulterated avarice.”
The investigation comes greater than per week after the famed Motown singer and document producer was sued by 4 girls who labored for him as housekeepers for sexual assault and rape.
Within the grievance, the nameless girls accuse Robinson of raping them at a number of of his residences, most primarily at his house in Chatsworth, California. The listed causes of motion embody negligence, sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and a hostile work setting, amongst different claims.
Robinson’s spouse, Frances Robinson, was additionally named as a defendant within the swimsuit, with the ladies claiming that she “didn’t take the suitable corrective motion to stop Defendant Robinson’s deviant misconduct.”
Robinson has denied the allegations, calling them “vile” and “false,” with Frost beforehand saying, “the proof will present that that is merely an unsightly methodology of attempting to extract cash from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 million {dollars}, to be precise.”