Smokey Robinson accused of sexual assault by ex-housekeepers in explosive $50 million lawsuit

Smokey Robinson has been accused of misconduct.

Four women filed a lawsuit against the 85-year-old musician in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, claiming sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, gender violence, hostile work environment, and more, The Post can confirm.

The singer’s wife, Frances Robinson, is also named in the lawsuit.

The women claim to be Robinson’s former employees, who worked as his housekeepers between 2012 and 2024, and the details of their allegations are disturbing.

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In the court documents obtained by The Post, Jane Doe 1 — who said she worked as a housekeeper for the couple from Jan. 3, 2023 until February 2024 — claimed the first alleged sexual assault occurred in March 2023 and happened “at least seven (7) times” until her resignation.

According to his accuser, Robinson would allegedly take his wife to the nail salon and hurry back “knowing that he would be home alone” with her since she mainly worked on the weekends.

“Upon returning home, Defendant Smokey Robinson would call her into his blue bedroom, lock the door and escort their dog Shilo out of the room. He will have showered and clothed only in his underwear. He would then neatly place a white towel on his bed, not to soil the bed linens, in preparation for what was about to occur,” she alleged in the lawsuit.

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Jane Doe 1 claimed the music legend would allegedly “roughly penetrate her vagina with his fingers, orally copulate her and proceed to penetrate her vagina with his erect penis causing her great pain” and “enjoyed ejaculating in her vagina without using a condom.”

Jane Doe 2 said she was the Robinsons’ housekeeper from May 2014 until February 2020. She alleged she was assaulted by the singer at least 23 different times in the court documents.

Calling his alleged advances “brutal,” “constant” and “predictable,” she claimed he would “summon her to either the laundry room or garage, where there were no cameras” before allegedly penetrating her vagina with his fingers and “then would proceed to rape her.”

She also described allegedly being “forced her into his blue bedroom,” where she “would perform oral sex on him,” and claimed Robinson would “forcibly penetrate her with his erect penis without using a condom.”

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Jane Doe 2 claimed in the filing that if she refused to have sex with him, the singer would threaten that he’d make Frances be “mean” to her.

The third accuser said she was Robinson’s housekeeper from February 2012 until April 2024, and alleged she was “sexually harassed, sexually assaulted and raped” by the musician “at least 20 times.”

“Defendant Smokey Robinson would force her into his blue bedroom, whereafter he would perform his ritual of exiting his bathroom nude or wearing only underwear after showering, and then carefully placing a towel on his bed not to soil the linens for what was about to occur. He would then disrobe JD3 and then orally copulate her. Then he would force her to lie face down on the towel so that he could penetrate her vagina with his erect penis from the rear,” the lawsuit read.

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Jane Doe 3 claimed that when she turned him down on one occasion, the R&B artist allegedly offered her “$500 to allow him to orally copulate her, an offer she refused.”

She alleged that Robinson would repeatedly make unwanted advances against her, “touching her breasts, vagina and kissing her on her neck and on her mouth.”

Jane Doe 4 said that in addition to being hired as the couple’s housekeeper, she also worked as Frances’ personal assistant, cook and hairdresser from October 2006 until April 22, 2024.

“Robinson first sexually assaulted her in 2007 when she accompanied him to his Las Vegas home. While there and alone with him, Defendant Smokey Robinson forced her into his bedroom and raped her,” she claimed in the lawsuit.

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She also alleged that on or about mid-2019, Robinson reportedly raped her at his temporary residence in Bell Canyon, California.

Jane Doe 4 stated that Robinson would often “summon her to his blue bedroom” at his main residence, “lock the door and place a towel down on the bed. After doing so, he would pull JD4’s clothes off, and against her protestations, push her down on the bed and proceed to rape her.”

She added in the suit, “Defendant Smokey Robinson never used a condom during the sexual assaults, ejaculating into JD4’s vagina or withdrawing and ejaculating all over her body, much to his satisfaction and her abject humiliation.”

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Each accuser claimed they didn’t report the alleged sexual assaults out of fear of losing their livelihood, public embarrassment, shame and humiliation.

They included Frances in the lawsuit, alleging she “failed to take the appropriate corrective action to prevent” Robinson’s alleged advances “despite having full knowledge of his prior acts of sexual misconduct.”

The former employees also claimed they were allegedly not paid overtime or given rest and lunch breaks.

The Post has reached out to Robinson’s rep for comment.

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This lawsuit comes on the heels of the R&B artist releasing his new album “What The World Needs Now” on April 25.

Robinson rose to fame as an R&B and soul singer after he founded the group the Miracles in 1955. He left the band in 1972 to focus on his role as vice president of the iconic label Motown Records.

But by 1973, Robinson reignited his career with a solo album titled “Smokey.” Throughout the late ’70s, the Hollywood star had a slew of hits, and in 1987, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

A year later, Robinson won his first — and only — Grammy for “Just to See Her.”

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Throughout his early career, Robinson was married to Claudette Rogers Robinson from 1959 to 1986. They have son Berry and daughter Tamla. Robinson is also a father to a son, Trey, from a woman he had an affair with for 20 years. He refers to the mystery woman as “Kandi.”

The musician went on to marry Frances in 2002.

After releasing his memoir “Smokey: Inside My Life” in 1989, Robinson told People at the time, “I just hate that the kids and others might have suffered from the moves that I made.”

 “I have good relationships with all the people in my life,” he added.

These days, Robinson has no plans to slow down in his career. “I tried retiring one time and it didn’t work for me, man,” Robinson said in 2024. “I love music, and I always have, before I even knew that I was ever going to have a career.”