Looks Like a messy divorce to me! Divorces don’t get more complicated than this one…
The ispute between Smokey Robinsonand his ex-wife Claudette Robinson over song rights is about to be resolved. On Thursday, the parties told a judge that they had reached a settlement.
The battle involves termination rights under the 1976 Copyright Act. The legendary R&B singer, whose songs include “My Girl” and “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me,” is in the process of reclaiming rights to his works. But as he was doing this, the woman he was married to between 1957 and 1986, who says she put a hold on her own singing career to take care of the kids, asserted that she deserved a 50 percent share of what he recovered.
This led Smokey to file a lawsuit for declaratory relief with Claudette filing counterclaims. Read more from HollywoodReporter
Do you think it is fair for his ex-wife to get HALF of his music right?
