Smokey Robinson just got an attorney on board to help him fight the sexual allegations made against him.
On May 6, four anonymous former housekeepers of the iconic musician, going by the alias Jane Doe, accused him of “repeatedly” raping and assaulting them during their tenure of working for him.
Attorney Christopher Frost, representing the Being With You singer, issued a statement to PEOPLE magazine, deeming the accusations as “an ugly method of trying to extract money from an 85-year-old American icon.”
He also said his team would be “addressing the numerous aspects of the complaint that defy credulity as well as issues relating to purported timelines, inconsistencies, and relationships between the plaintiffs and others.”
Frost, who is also representing Robinson’s wife, Frances, said that the producer will “respond in his own words” in time, and will soon file a legal response in court.
“We ask anyone following this case to reserve judgment as the evidence comes to light and all the actual facts of the case unfold,” Frost further said.
“We will be asking the Court to dismiss the lawsuit. We will also be asking the Court to address that in their statements to the press about Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff’s attorneys have reached beyond the bounds of liberties that even lawyers are typically allowed in this context,” he concluded.
This comes after Smokey Robinson, told the Daily Mail on May 7, via a phone call that he was left “appalled” by the heinous allegations made against him.
For the unversed, on May 6, four Jane Does accused him of sexual battery, rape, assault, gender violence and false imprisonment, over a span of 20 years, with their attorney, John Harris, saying:
“Obviously, no amount of money can compensate these women for what Mr. Robinson put them through. [But the $50 million is warranted] based on the gravity of Mr. Robinson’s despicable and reprehensible misconduct.”
