Overview

• On May 28, Robinson and his wife, Frances, filed a $500 million cross-complaint accusing four former housekeepers and their lawyer of defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and financial elder abuse.
• The four women originally sued Robinson on May 6 for $50 million, alleging repeated sexual battery, assault, false imprisonment and labor violations between 2007 and 2024.
• The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Special Victims Bureau opened a criminal investigation into the sexual assault claims on May 15, and the inquiry remains active.
• Robinson’s filing seeks to strip the accusers of their Jane Doe anonymity, arguing they staged a ‘media circus’ and attempted to extort the couple with pre-litigation demands of $100 million or more.
• The Robinsons moved to dismiss the original suit for pseudonym use, and the women’s attorneys plan to file an anti-SLAPP motion to strike Robinson’s countersuit as a bid to silence survivors.