Wiliams’ ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, beforehand petitioned a court docket for settlement funds Williams agreed to make as a situation of their divorce.
Apr. 16 2024, Revealed 7:59 p.m. ET
Wendy Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, is reportedly making an attempt to recoup $112,500 from the embattled discuss present host’s ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, claiming he was overpaid in divorce settlements, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
Hunter beforehand petitioned a court docket after he stopped receiving cash that Williams agreed to pay him as a situation of their divorce. He stated he hadn’t acquired severance funds since 2021.
As this outlet reported, Williams was positioned below court-ordered guardianship in 2022, leaving Morrissey answerable for her funds.
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Wiliams’ ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, beforehand petitioned a court docket for settlement funds Williams agreed to make as a situation of their divorce.
Within the court docket submitting obtained by the U.S. Solar, Morrissey argued that per the marital settlement settlement, the severance funds had been to finish if Williams’ annual revenue dropped beneath a certain quantity. She claimed that Williams’ revenue dipped considerably in October 2021 when she stopped internet hosting The Wendy Williams Present.
“She continued to pay Mr. Hunter. He says in his movement papers… that he was paid by way of January of 2022,” Morrissey wrote. “Consequently, [Kevin] has been unjustly enriched by the receipt of $112,500 ($37,500 x 3 months) belonging to [Wendy].”
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Williams’ guardian requested this cash be returned to the media mogul and moved for a gag order to stop Hunter from discussing the matter. She additionally urged his request to re-open the case in court docket will get dismissed, suggesting arbitration as an alternative.
Hunter has requested that the funds resume, demanding Wendy’s monetary information from their divorce to the current be launched.
He was married to Williams from November 1999 to January 2020, and so they had one youngster collectively.
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Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, additionally moved for a gag order to stop Hunter from discussing the matter.
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Kevin Jr. is “now emancipated and is a full-time pupil at Barry College in Florida.”
“That is an emergent matter as a result of I depend on the severance pay for my dwelling bills and having been with out this revenue for twenty-three months has affected me enormously,” Hunter wrote.
“Subsequently, I respectfully request that the Court docket require [Wendy] to right away pay all severance funds which can be due and owing on the time of this Court docket’s Order,” he added.
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Williams, 59, was speculated to be paid $100k per episode of a four-part documentary.
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Court docket paperwork additionally not too long ago revealed that Williams, 59, was speculated to be paid $100k per episode of a four-part documentary that drew backlash for its publicity of her intensely private battle with dementia.
The settlement was specified by an 18-page contract that the beloved host allegedly signed earlier than she was identified with major progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
Morrissey questioned the contract’s validity in an explosive lawsuit towards Lifetime’s guardian firm A&E Networks Tv, LLC that was filed as an unsuccessful try at stopping the documentary from airing.
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Williams appeared in a documentary sequence launched in February that acquired backlash on social media for exposing her intimate battle with dementia.
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“She was not, and isn’t, able to consenting to the phrases of the documentary Contract,” the lawsuit, which was filed within the New York Supreme Court docket, acknowledged.
“And nobody appearing in [Wendy’s] greatest curiosity would permit her to be portrayed within the demeaning method by which she is portrayed within the Trailer for the documentary,” Morrissey claimed.
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She additionally alleged the producers insisted Williams can be portrayed “in a optimistic method like a phoenix rising from the ashes,” per the court docket docs. The sequence aired on February 24 and 25.
“If we’d identified she had dementia, nobody would’ve rolled a digicam,” one of many producers advised The Hollywood Reporter.