A judge Wednesday denied a motion by an attorney for four former housekeepers for Smokey Robinson who allege they were sexually abused by the music legend and 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, contended 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, Christopher Frost, said in court, according to Mendoza.

But on Wednesday,

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