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Motown king SMOKEY ROBINSON’s ex-wife wants a chunk of his royalties and is going to war for it!
Smokey is still paying for his divorce nearly thirty years later— and if his ex Claudette has her way, the $275 million Motown legend will continue to do so.
In March, the singer/songwriter/hitmaker, 74, filed a lawsuit against his former wife, from whom he officially split in 1985 after 27 years of marriage, claiming as per the 1976 Copyright Act, she no longer owns the music copyright and royalty rights she was awarded in their 1986 divorce settlement.
(The act dictates that copyrights expire 28 years after they were originally created.)