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Smokey Robinson denies four housekeepers’ allegations of sexual assault

The women have accused Motown star of sexual assault and employment violations. His attorney has called the lawsuit ‘an ugly method of trying to extract money’

Robinson’s lawyer Christopher Frost has responded to the lawsuit, saying that “the evidence … will show that this is simply an ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon – $50m, to be exact.” He called the allegations against Robinson and his wife “vile, false”, adding that they “defy credulity” and contain “issues relating to purported timelines, inconsistencies and relationships between the plaintiffs and others”. “We believe she was aware of the misconduct by her husband, Smokey Robinson, and that she used their status as well as our clients’ reliance on their living wage in order to keep them in check,” lawyer Herbert Hayden said.

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