Iconic singer Smokey Robinson raged ‘I am appalled’ when asked by the Daily Mail about claims he’d sexually abused multiple housekeepers.

The Motown legend, 85, then began mumbling incoherently after being contacted by phone Wednesday morning.

He did not sound well.  

But Robinson became lucid again a few seconds later, ending the call by saying: ‘I can’t speak about this right now.’ 

Robinson was hit by a civil lawsuit Wednesday containing a slew of lurid claims against him and his wife Francis.

The singer, real name William Robinson Jr., was accused of sexual assaults, rape, wage theft and bullying by four Hispanic housekeepers.

Those attacks are said to have taken place between 2007 and April 2024 at Robinson’s two Los Angeles homes and a third property he owns in Las Vegas.

Robinson’s accusers, anonymized in the lawsuit as Jane Does, say they were forced into rooms of the property and sexually abused or raped. 

The musician, whose biggest hits include The Tracks of My Tears, My Guy and My Girl, is also accused of inflicting a seedy ‘ritual’ on the women.

Renowned singer Smokey Robinson (shown in February 2023) has expressed his shock at a series of disturbing accusations, including sexual assault and unlawful detainment, detailed in a surprising legal case by his former staff.

Robinson, aged 85, is accused of fostering a toxic workplace environment, with his spouse Frances Robinson (pictured together in March 2024) also implicated in the litigation.

The employees claim that they were coerced or compelled to enter his bedroom, where they would encounter him in a state of undress or wearing solely a towel. Allegedly, Robinson then instructed them to physically engage with him.

Robinson’s wife Francis had full knowledge of the assaults and did nothing to stop them, the suit claims.

It further alleges that she was well aware of past settlements paid to other women who’d made similar accusations about Robinson. 

She is said to have been driven to a nail salon every week so Robinson could be ‘home alone’ with one of his accusers. 

Francis is further said to have been a bully who’d ‘scream’ at the women ‘in a hostile manner.’

Robinson is even said to have threatened to set his wife on one housekeeper if she refused him sex. 

The women are seeking $50 million in damages. No criminal charges have been filed against Robinson over the claims.  

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. 

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 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’. 

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.’ 

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.’