Smokey Robinson‘s camp says the sexual assault lawsuit filed by 4 former housekeepers is stuffed with lies, and purely designed to squeeze cash out of the Motown legend.

Robinson’s lawyer Christopher Frost tells TMZ … “As this case progresses, the proof (the essential component that guides us) will present that that is merely an unpleasant technique of attempting to extract cash from an 85-year-old American icon — $50 million, to be actual.”

He goes on to name out the plaintiffs and their attorneys, saying, “By way of this course of we have now seen the weird theatrics of yesterday’s information convention, because the plaintiffs’ attorneys outlined vile, false allegations in opposition to Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, attempting to enlist the general public as an unwitting participant within the media circus they’re attempting to create.”

As we reported, the accusers — who’ve filed as Jane Does — declare Robinson raped them a number of occasions whereas they had been working for him. They’re additionally suing his longtime spouse Frances Gladney Robinson … alleging she knew about his actions, and did nothing to guard the staff.

Frost says Smokey himself will reply in his personal phrases, and they’ll file a movement to dismiss the lawsuit, whereas addressing “quite a few features” of the allegations that “defy credulity in addition to points regarding purported timelines, inconsistencies, and relationships between the plaintiffs and others.”