Smokey Robinson and spouse Frances have requested a temporary restraining order from a Los Angeles court against a woman who is accusing the Motown icon of sex assault.
The 85-year-old legend and his wife said that the woman illegally accessed a storage unit they own and took “thousands of dollars” worth of valuables, according to legal documents obtained by Daily Mail.
Attorneys for the Detroit-born music icon filed paperwork on Monday, noting that the couple had found out about the alleged breach that same day.
Robinson and his wife said that the incident - which was done “covertly, with malicious intent [and] without consent” - took place on November 22, according to legal documents, and was documented on security footage.
Attorneys for Robinson said that the woman, who was identified in court documents as Jane Doe 4, brought two people to help her haul boxes out of the storage unit for 40 minutes before leaving.
Christopher Frost, a lawyer representing the Cruisin’ artist, told Daily Mail in a statement that the sequence of events showed how petty Robinson's accuser was.
“As absurd as this turn of events might seem, it is yet another example of how Jane Doe 4 and her group of accusers are motivated by greed - even the pettiest kind,” Frost said, adding, “We are already suing them for financial elder abuse, conversion, and invasion of privacy”
“We are taking swift action to ensure that that Jane Doe 4 and those assisting her cannot go near the Robinsons, a couple in their 70s and 80s, because there seem to be no limits on what they are willing to do,” they concluded.
Meanwhile, lawyers for Jane Doe 4 told PEOPLE magazine that the latest set of claims made by Smokey Robinson and his wife “represent a desperate fabrication intended to retaliate against Jane Doe 4 following her damning testimony during her December 5th deposition.”
