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Wendy Williams, Ex-Husband File $250M Lawsuit to End Guardianship

Published on June 19, 2025

Wendy Williams and ex-husband Kevin Hunter filed a $250M federal lawsuit alleging abuse and seeking to terminate her ongoing guardianship

The Wendy Williams Guardianship battle has escalated significantly, with the popular comedian and her ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, filing a $250 million federal lawsuit in New York.

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The suit, filed last week and initially reported on Tuesday, seeks to terminate Williams’ current guardianship, which Hunter asserts “has become a weapon, not a shield.”

Hunter, who was married to the television presenter for over two decades until their 2020 divorce, is a key figure in this legal challenge.

The lawsuit names several defendants, including Wendy Williams’ legal guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, selected by a New York judge, as well as Wells Fargo bank, her financial advisor, and her former manager, among others.

The complaint, which refers to Williams by her married name, Hunter, claims that “Ms. Hunter, [is] being abused, neglected, and defrauded under the care of court-appointed guardians.

” It further alleges the guardianship “serves no therapeutic purpose, no protective function. It is punishment—pure and simple.”

The lawsuit’s claims are stark: “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.”

While Wendy Williams reportedly entered the guardianship voluntarily three years ago, shortly after Wells Fargo froze her accounts in January 2022 due to “suspicious activity” and recommended a guardianship to the courts, her ex-husband now contends the situation has changed drastically.

Kevin Hunter maintains that Williams, who has been diagnosed with Graves’ disease, frontal temporal dementia, and progressive aphasia, is now stable enough to make her own decisions.

He alleges her guardians are determined to keep her in “financial bondage.”

Hunter emphasized 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.”

The lawsuit also points fingers at Williams’ financial advisor, Lori Schiller, and her ex-manager, Bernie Young.

It accuses them of exploiting Wendy’s “trust and financial resources” by spending substantial amounts of her hard-earned money without her explicit permission.