Wendy Williams is caught in a courtroom battle with Wells Fargo Financial institution after the discuss present host’s accounts had been frozen, in response to new docs obtained by HollywoodLife.
Wendy Williams, 57, is an “incapacitated individual” who wants a guardianship, her financial institution claimed on Feb. 10. Wells Fargo despatched a letter to the New York Supreme Court docket asking for a listening to to find out whether or not Wendy, who has been absent from her daytime discuss present since July 2021 on account of ongoing well being points, wants an expert to intervene in her affairs, in response to courtroom paperwork obtained by HollywoodLife.
This comes after an lawyer for Wendy, Celeste McCaw, filed an emergency petition within the New York Supreme Court docket on Feb. 4, claiming that Wells Fargo denied Wendy entry to her monetary accounts for “greater than two weeks” after her longtime monetary advisor, Lori Schiller, stated that Wendy was of “unsound thoughts.”
McCaw went on to say that Wendy had fired Schiller as her adviser on account of alleged “malfeasance” involving her accounts in addition to “improper conduct in relation to their skilled relationship.”
However Wells Fargo’s lawyer, David H. Pikus, additionally despatched a letter to Choose Arlene Bluth, on Feb. 9, and said that Wells Fargo was “involved” in regards to the state of affairs relating to Wendy’s funds. He defined that they'd filed a non-public request for guardianship for Wendy. Pikus went on to say that Schiller had “lately witnessed indicators of exploitation, together with [Williams’] personal expressed apprehensions” in regards to the folks round her. He wrote that “different unbiased third events who know [Williams] properly … share these considerations.”
McCaw, nonetheless, wrote in response to Wednesday’s letter that Wendy “denies that she is the sufferer of undue affect and monetary exploitation.”
McCaw has additionally requested a brief restraining order in opposition to Wells Fargo to restrain the financial institution “from freezing [Williams’] accounts and interfering along with her proper to entry her monetary belongings and statements,” the courtroom paperwork present. HollywoodLife has reached out to the lawyer for Wells Fargo, in addition to Wendy’s lawyer previous to publishing this text. Up to now, now we have not heard again from both get together.
As Wendy’s followers and supporters know, Wendy hasn’t returned to her discuss present for the reason that 14th season premiered in October 2021. Previously, she’s been open about her struggles with Graves’ illness and habit, and simply this previous November, she informed a photographer that she was “doing fabulous“, however she has but to make a TV comeback.
In the meantime, it was reported earlier this week that SherriShepherd will repeatedly host the discuss present collection beginning in September. Wendy has but to touch upon the report by Deadline.
The US Solar was first to report the information.