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Smokey Robinson Hits Back With $500M Defamation Suit Against “Fabricated” Rape Claims By Ex-Employees
Three weeks after being sued for rape & $50M by four former housekeepers, Motown legend Smokey Robinson has come back with a $500M action of his own
Today’s countersuit makes note of Robinson’s new What The World Needs Now album that came out in late April and the fallout the rape accusations and legal action has had on the performer’s career the past month. Filed back on May 6, the initial, the 16-claim civil action alleges that the 85-year-old Robinson individually raped the each of the four women several times in his homes in Las Vegas, Chatsworth and Bell Canyon in Ventura County over the years. Turning the spotlight to a press conference that the four woman and their Hayden & Harris lawyers gave on May 6, the same day they filed their civil action, the Robinsons declare now that the plaintiffs forced them to sue back and, in a separate motion, seeking to have the initial suit tossed out.
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