Things just keep getting worse for Wendy https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t22/1/16/1f61e.png The lawyer must be eying the $millions…
[I]Williams’ lawyer Celeste McCaw wrote in response to Wednesday’s letter that her Emmy-winning client ‘denies that she is the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation.’
McCaw also requested a temporary restraining order against Wells Fargo to restrain the bank ‘from freezing [Williams’] accounts and interfering with her right to access her financial assets and statements.’
The trailblazing Williams launched her eponymous show in 2008, and now in its 13th season, it remains one of the biggest hits in daytime TV history.
The show was built around Williams, then a popular radio host known for her no-holds-barred take on celebrity gossip.
The show has been deeply personal, charting the end of her 22-year marriage to television producer Kevin Hunter in 2019, when she discovered he had been having an affair and fathered a child with his mistress.
In February 2021 she hosted a ‘Date Wendy’ segment on her show and met Mike Esterman, a Maryland building contractor, who she began dating.[/I]
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[li]Wendy Williams, 57, has been locked out of her Wells Fargo accounts since mid-January after her former financial advisor claimed she was ‘of unsound mind’[/li][li]On February 4 she accused the bank through the courts of overstepping their authority and demanded she be able to access her millions[/li][li]The bank has now responded, with a lawyer for Wells Fargo claiming she is an ‘incapacitated person’ who needs a guardianship[/li][li]The attorney alleged that Williams is being exploited by people around her and is vulnerable and exposed[/li][li]Williams’s team has denied that she is suffering from dementia and her lawyer on Wednesday said that she should be given access to her money[/li][li]The lawyer said that Williams ‘denies that she is the victim of undue influence and financial exploitation’ [/li][li]The future of her show remains uncertain, with a ‘permanent guest host’ being named and Williams unlikely to return before the fall, according to sources [/li][/ul]