Wendy Williams and her ex-husband have filed a $250M lawsuit seeking to end her guardianship. Kevin Hunter, who was married to the TV presenter for more than 2 decades until their divorce in 2020, filed the federal suit in New York, saying that the guardianship “has become a weapon, not a shield.”
The suit is against the TV host’s legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, who was selected by a New York judge, Wells Fargo bank, her financial advisor, her ex-manager, as well as a list of other defendants.
Addressing Wendy Williams with her married name, Hunter, the suit read, “Ms. Hunter, [is] being abused, neglected, and defrauded under the care of court-appointed guardians.
The guardianship … serves no therapeutic purpose, no protective function. It is punishment—pure and simple.
Currently, Ms. Hunter is being confined against her will at one of Coterie’s assisted living facilities with restricted access to her own phone and meaningful contact with her friends and family.”
Wendy willingly entered into the guardianship 3 years ago, briefly after Wells Fargo bank froze her accounts in January 2022 due to “suspicious activity” and penned a letter to the courts recommending a guardianship.
However, her former husband, Kevin Hunter, has come out to say that while Wendy Williams, who was recently diagnosed with Graves disease, frontal temporal dementia and progressive aphasia, is stable enough to make her own decisions, her guardians are hell bent on keeping her in financial bondage.
Kevin emphasised that Wendy is consistently “subjected to overmedication and undue restrictions of her person,” and remains in care “despite Ms. Hunter passing a competency evaluation in or around March 2025 and being described by healthcare professionals as alert and oriented during welfare checks.”
It further accused Wendy’s financial advisor, Lori Schiller and her ex-manager, Bernie Young, of exploiting Wendy’s “trust and financial resources” by spending a lot of her hard-earned money without her permission.
