LOS ANGELES – The attorney for four former housekeepers for Smokey Robinson who allege they were sexually abused by the music legend want a judge to consider holding Robinson’s attorney in contempt for allegedly violating confidential deposition testimony regarding the plaintiffs while speaking in open court.

In court papers filed Monday with Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kevin C. Brazile, the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Colin Mendoza, contends that Robinson’s attorney revealed during a Sept. 11 hearing that two of the plaintiffs are sisters and also disparaged one of those sibling’s employment history.

“That’s the type of information they don’t want the public to know,” Robinson’s attorney said in court, according to Mendoza.

News media members were in court and one of them published Robins

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