Smokey Robinson‘s legal professional is talking out in opposition to the sexual misconduct allegations made in opposition to the music icon.

Earlier this week, a $50 million lawsuit was filed in opposition to the 85-year-old singer by 4 former housekeepers, who alleged Smokey “repeatedly” “raped” them. Smokey‘s spouse Frances Robinson was additionally named within the lawsuit.

On Wednesday (Could 7), Smokey‘s legal professional Christopher Frost launched a press release with Folks slamming the allegations as “an unpleasant methodology of making an attempt to extract cash from an 85-year-old American icon.”

Preserve studying to search out out extra…Frost additionally stated that his staff could be “addressing the quite a few elements of the criticism that defy credulity in addition to points referring to purported timelines, inconsistencies, and relationships between the plaintiffs and others.”

The legal professional, who can also be representing Smokey‘s spouse Frances, stated that the singer will “reply in his personal phrases” in time, and can quickly file a authorized response in court docket.

“We ask anybody following this case to order judgment because the proof involves mild and all of the precise details of the case unfold,” Frost stated. “We shall be asking the Courtroom to dismiss the lawsuit. We can even be asking the Courtroom to handle that of their statements to the press about Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff’s attorneys have reached past the bounds of liberties that even legal professionals are sometimes allowed on this context.”

The sexual misconduct lawsuit in opposition to Smokey Robinson comes lower than a month after he appeared on the Hollywood Magnificence Awards in Los Angeles.