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Wendy Williams’ guardian is demanding Kevin Hunter return ‘overpaid’ divorce settlements
Wiliams’ ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, previously petitioned the court for settlement payments that Williams agreed to make as a condition of their divorce.
April 16, 2024, published at 7:59 PM ET
Wendy Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrisseyis reportedly trying to recover $112,500 from the embattled talk show host’s ex-husband, Kevin Hunterclaiming he was overpaid in divorce settlements, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Hunter earlier filed a petition with the court after he stopped receiving money that Williams agreed to pay him as a condition of their divorce. He said he has not received any severance payments since 2021.
As this outlet reported, Williams was placed under court guardianship in 2022, leaving Morrissey in charge of her finances.
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Wiliams’ ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, previously petitioned the court for settlement payments Williams agreed to as a condition of their divorce.
In the court file obtained by the American sun, Morrissey argued that under the prenuptial agreement, the severance payments would end if Williams’ annual income fell below a certain amount. She claimed that Williams’ income dropped significantly in October 2021 when she stopped hosting The Wendy Williams Show.
“She continued to pay Mr. Hunter. He says in his motion papers… that he was paid through January 2022,” Morrissey wrote. “As a result, [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 that this money be returned to the media mogul and requested a gag order to prevent Hunter from discussing the matter. She also urged that his request to reopen the case in court be denied and suggest arbitration instead.
Hunter has requested that the payments be resumed and is demanding that Wendy’s financial records from their divorce to the present be released.
He was married to Williams from November 1999 to January 2020 and they had one child together.
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Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, also requested a gag order to prevent Hunter from discussing the case.
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Kevin Jr. is “now emancipated and studying full-time at Barry University in Florida.”
“This is an emerging issue because I rely on severance pay for my livelihood and going twenty-three months without this income has had a major impact on me,” Hunter wrote.
“Therefore, I respectfully request that the Court require this [Wendy] to immediately pay any severance payments that may be due at the time of the court’s order,” he added.
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Williams, 59, would be paid $100,000 per episode of a four-part documentary.
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Also court documents recently unveiled that Williams, 59, would be paid $100,000 per episode of a four-part documentary that drew widespread backlash for revealing her intensely personal battle with dementia.
The agreement was laid out in an 18-page contract that the beloved host is said to have signed before she was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.
Morrissey questioned the validity of the contract in an explosive lawsuit against Lifetime’s parent company A&E Networks Television, LLC which was filed as a failed attempt to prevent the documentary from being broadcast.
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Williams appeared in a documentary series released in February that received backlash on social media for exposing her intimate battle with dementia.
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“She was and is incapable of agreeing to the terms of the documentary contract,” said the lawsuit, which was filed in New York Supreme Court.
‘And no one intervenes [Wendy’s] “The best interest would allow her to be portrayed in the demeaning manner in which she is portrayed in the documentary trailer,” Morrissey alleged.
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She also claimed that the producers insisted that Williams be “portrayed in a positive manner as a phoenix rising from the ashes,” according to the court documents. The series aired on February 24 and 25.
“If we had known she had dementia, no one would have rolled a camera,” one of the producers said The Hollywood Reporter.
