Iconic singer Smokey Robinson has been hit with a slew of sickening allegations including rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment in a bombshell lawsuit from his former employees. 

The 85-year-old R&B star, whose real name is William Robinson Jr., is alleged to have created a hostile work environment, with his wife Frances Robinson also named in the legal document filed in California Superior Court on Tuesday. 

The accusations include assault and gender violence, with four female former housekeepers claiming the singer would systematically target them around his Chatsworth, Los Angeles mansion, between 2007 and 2024. 

The complainants are suing for at least $50 million in damages for each of 11 allegations listed in the 27-page document seen by DailyMail.com. 

They claim Robinson would order them to his bedroom or to rooms in the property where he knew surveillance cameras would not find them, before placing a towel on his bed and allegedly raping and ‘humiliating’ them. 

His wife Frances is accused of failing to step in despite knowledge of her husband’s alleged depravity, including being driven to a nail salon so he could be ‘home alone’ with one of his accusers every Saturday.  

Robinson has been on tour to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of his hit soul album A Quiet Storm, and is set to perform hours after the press conference in Huntington, New York on Tuesday night. 

The singer has not responded to news of the lawsuit, and his company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com. 

Iconic singer Smokey Robinson (pictured in April 2025) has been hit with a slew of sickening allegations including sexual battery and false imprisonment in a bombshell lawsuit from his former employees

Iconic singer Smokey Robinson (pictured in April 2025) has been hit with a slew of sickening allegations including sexual battery and false imprisonment in a bombshell lawsuit from his former employees

Robinson, 85, is alleged to have created a hostile work environment, with his wife Frances Robinson (seen together in March 2024) also named in the lawsuit

Robinson, 85, is alleged to have created a hostile work environment, with his wife Frances Robinson (seen together in March 2024) also named in the lawsuit 

The four plaintiffs who are suing Robinson have chosen to remain nameless and are referred to only as Jane Doe in the filings. 

One of the plaintiffs alleged that Robinson sexually assaulted her several times in his mansion beginning in 2016.

‘He would summon her to either the laundry room or garage, where there were no cameras,’ the lawsuit claims.

The accuser said that Robinson raped her ‘without a condom’ at least 23 times. She gave graphic details, including claims that the singer would ‘enjoy ejaculating all over (her) face’. 

He would then threaten her by saying his wife would be ‘mean’ to her if she didn’t comply, the lawsuit states. 

The same complainant alleges that Frances also ‘perpetuated a hostile work environment by regularly screaming at (her) in a hostile manner’ and by ‘using ethnically pejorative words and language’. 

Another former housekeeper alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Robinson at least seven times between January 2023 and February 2024, when she was ‘forced to resign due to repeated sexual assaults’. 

She claimed that the singer would take his wife to the nail salon on Saturdays and rush home to ‘be home alone’ with the housekeeper. 

He would allegedly summon her to his blue bedroom, escort the dog, Shilo, out of the room, before locking the door and attacking her on his bed, ‘causing her great pain’.

The housekeeper said she would try to ‘resist his sexual assaults’ but could not. 

In one desperate attempt to shake him off, she shouted ‘you’re married’ to the singer, but she said he would ‘casually ignore’ this. 

She said this occurred at least seven times, forcing her to stop working for Robinson in February 2024. She also claimed that the singer and his wife ‘failed to pay minimum wage or overtime wages.’ 

Robinson, 85, is alleged to have created a hostile work environment, with his wife Frances Robinson also named in the California Superior Court, Los Angeles lawsuit

Robinson, 85, is alleged to have created a hostile work environment, with his wife Frances Robinson also named in the California Superior Court, Los Angeles lawsuit

The lawsuit comes just weeks after Robinson released his latest album 'What The World Needs Now', with the singer hit with news of the lawsuit just hours before he is set to take the stage in New York on Tuesday night

The lawsuit comes just weeks after Robinson released his latest album ‘What The World Needs Now’, with the singer hit with news of the lawsuit just hours before he is set to take the stage in New York on Tuesday night 

The third accuser said she was also working as a housekeeper when Robinson attacked her, and alleged a similar pattern of abuse whereby the singer would lure her to his bedroom.

She said Robinson raped her at least 20 times between 2012 and 2024, and on one occasion he offered her $500 to ‘allow him to orally copulate her’, per the lawsuit.

The housekeeper also accuses Frances of failing ‘to take the appropriate corrective action to prevent Smokey Robinson’s deviant misconduct’. 

She said this came despite his wife ‘having full knowledge of his prior acts of sexual misconduct, having settled cases with other women that suffered and experienced similar sexual assaults perpetuated by him’.

The fourth accuser also says she was attacked by Robinson while working as a housekeeper between 2007 and 2024, alleging that he ‘never used a condom’ while assaulting her in his home.

The complainants allege several offenses, including negligence, sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, gender violence, creating a hostile environment and failure to pay minimum wage. 

The lawsuit comes just weeks after Robinson released his latest album ‘What The World Needs Now’ on April 25. 

When he announced the release of the album last month, Robinson told CBS Mornings: ‘I want people to be inspired to care about each other and to love each other.’ 

When asked about the legacy he hoped to leave as he embarked on his A Quiet Storm tour, he told the broadcaster he hoped it would be that he ‘was a good human being.’ 

‘(One) who recognized the fact that you don’t get any bigger than being a human being. I don’t care what your craft is, or what you do for your living and all that… So, I hope that that’s my legacy.’  

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