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Smokey Robinson Faces Criminal Rape Investigation After Former Housekeepers File Police Report
Smokey Robinson is facing a criminal investigation for sexual assault claims filed against him in a civil lawsuit by four housekeepers.
Lawyers for four anonymous housekeepers, who alleged in a$50 million lawsuit earlier this month that William “Smokey” Robinson Jr. repeatedly raped them over the course of nearly two decades, confirm in a Thursday (May 15) statement to Billboard that criminal authorities are probing the claims. “We are pleased to learn that the LA County Sheriff’s Department has opened a criminal investigation into our clients’ claims of sexual assault against Smokey Robinson,” say attorneys John Harris and Herbert Hayden. Robinson, who’s currently on a legacy tour celebrating the 50 th anniversary of his album A Quiet Storm, 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.
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