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Motown fable Smokey Robinson is erstwhile again nether scrutiny pinch renewed allegations of intersexual assault.
Authorities investigated a erstwhile intersexual battle allegation against Robinson successful 2015, but nary charges were revenge owed to insufficient evidence, prosecutors said Friday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's agency confirmed nan decade-old investigation and its determination to diminution charges successful a connection Friday. The agency said nary specifications would beryllium provided because of nan existent investigation of Robinson.
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Smokey Robinson faces caller scrutiny aft a 2015 intersexual battle investigation closed. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Robinson’s attorney, Christopher Frost, said successful a connection they are "pleased" nan territory lawyer "confirmed location was nary ground to record charges a decade ago."
"One unfortunate facet of personage is that it is not uncommon to beryllium nan target of spurious and unsubstantiated allegations," Frost said. "Mr. Robinson looks guardant to nan conclusion of nan existent investigation and has nary uncertainty that a akin determination will beryllium reached here."
Robinson, 85, was accused of intersexual misconduct and mendacious imprisonment May 6 in a $50 cardinal lawsuit revenge by 4 unnamed erstwhile employees, according to documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
The suit said Robinson harassed and assaulted his erstwhile housekeepers who worked astatine his Chatsworth location betwixt 2006 and 2024.
Frances, Robinson's woman of 25 years, was besides accused of perpetuating a "hostile activity environment."
Robinson's lawyer antecedently called nan housekeepers' allegations "vile" and "false."
Frances, Robinson's woman of 25 years, was besides accused of perpetuating a "hostile activity environment." (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/AFP via Getty Images)
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Earlier this week, Robinson and his woman revenge a $500 cardinal cross-complaint against nan erstwhile unit members. In tribunal documents revenge Wednesday successful LA Superior Court, nan mates impeach nan 4 Jane Does and their ineligible representatives of slander, financial elder abuse, intentional infliction of affectional distress, penetration of privacy, civilian conspiracy and different claims.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's agency confirmed nan decade-old investigation and its determination not to record charges. (Lester Cohen)
The suit alleges that nan accusations against Robinson were "fabricated successful support of their extortionate scheme." The documents further stated that "Mr. and Ms. Robinson did not view, aliases treat, group successful their employment arsenic conscionable employees. They treated them arsenic extended family."
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According to nan cross-complaint, nan Robinsons had vacationed pinch nan accusers, exchanged gifts and celebrated holidays and birthdays together. The suit stated that nan plaintiffs "asked for and accepted thief from nan Robinsons, including respective thousands of dollars, monetary support for members of astatine slightest 1 Plaintiff’s family, clothes, dental surgery, and moreover a car."
The Jane Does' lawyers, John Harris and Herbert Hayden, who were named arsenic defendants successful nan Robinsons' cross-complaint on pinch their patient Harris & Hayden, responded to nan suit successful a connection to Fox News Digital.
Robinson was a cardinal fig successful nan Motown Records instrumentality of nan 1960s. (Leni Sinclair/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
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"The cross-complaint revenge by Mr. Christopher Frost connected behalf of William ‘Smokey’ Robinson and Frances Robinson is thing much than an effort to soundlessness and intimidate nan survivors of Mr. Robinson's sexual battery and assault," they said.
"It is simply a baseless and vindictive ineligible maneuver designed to re-victimize, displacement blasted and discourage others from coming forward. This type of retaliatory litigation is precisely what California’s anti-SLAPP laws were enacted to prevent."
Robinson is simply a personnel of some nan Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and nan Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was a cardinal fig successful nan Motown Records instrumentality of nan 1960s arsenic some an creator and a writer and was 1 of nan apical hitmakers of nan era pinch songs for illustration "Tears of a Clown" and "The Tracks of My Tears."
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Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume, Tracy Wright and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips tin beryllium sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and connected Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.
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