Sabrina Morrissey Confronts Kevin Hunter: Return $112k in Alimony, Claims Unpaid for 23 Months

Legal and financial guardian Sabrina Morrissey for Wendy Williams and ex-husband Kevin Hunter are likely to fight in court about alimony money.

A complaint brought in the New Jersey Superior Court states as much. Morrissey is requesting that Williams’ former spouse return $112,500 in alimony. Morrissey claims Williams, 59, “overpaid” Hunter, 52, for three months and that Williams’ bank account “unjustly enriched” Hunter.

But in a different court filing, Hunter has asked the former talk show host to reimburse him for 23 months of unpaid spousal support from their divorce. He says Williams ceased paying alimony before she was put under a guardianship that was ordered by the court in May 2022 and is in charge of her money and health. Morrissey brought the matter to court to seek arbitration since both sides believed that out-of-court mediation had failed.

Unable to be reached for comment were Hunter and his lawyer. No word from Morrissey’s lawyer. After 13 seasons spread over 14 years, The Wendy Williams Show ended in 2022 without Williams on screen. When the cancellation occurred, Sherri Shepherd had been temporarily filling in for Williams.

Williams has since made public her diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia; she is still a resident of a care facility. The only person who has unrestricted access to her is her court-appointed legal guardian, her relatives stated in a February interview. Morrissey’s complaint states that Williams was paid just twice after she quit the program. She was paid a single, lump sum of $1,952 in February 2022 and $59 in January 2023.

According to Morrissey’s lawsuit, Williams’ yearly earned income “is less than 2 times her then yearly salary as of February 1, 2020,” and as such, they were to terminate their divorce arrangement with Hunter, who was to get severance money.

However, Hunter verified in his opposition statement to the court that he kept getting payments until January 2022, as the complaint further states.

“I believe this was largely the result of the fact that the payments had been put on an ‘autopay’ function within her account,” Morrissey says in her complaint. “Since 2021, her residual income has been very small—everything like half of what it was in February 2020 or October 2021.”

“By holding on to the funds he was overpaid, [Hunter] has interfered with [Williams’] right of possessions to those funds,” the complaint goes on. Morrissey wants the court to place a gag order on Hunter to keep him from talking to the others or the media in addition to repaying the six-figure amount and interest. Hunter canceled his Instagram account since then.

“The possible damage to [Williams] is great,” Morrissey writes in the application. “Mr. Hunter and his operatives have demonstrated their readiness to discuss these matters with the media. To further his interests and voice dissatisfaction with the legal system, Mr. Hunter or someone he gave court documents to leak them to the media.”

Hunter said, “This remains an emergent matter and should be treated as such,” in his statement. Hunter also referred to the contentious Lifetime documentary Where Is Wendy Williams?, which debuted in February, a few days after Williams’ care team disclosed that she had been diagnosed with dementia.

“Extremely demeaning and undignified manner, incorrectly states that she is ‘broke’ and cruelly implies that [her] disoriented demeanor is due to substance abuse and intoxication,” Hunter said the project depicted his ex in.

Though Morrissey acknowledged that the documentary was negative in the court records, she said that it was pitched to her as a project that would enhance William’s reputation. (Executive producer of the Lifetime program, Mark Ford, previously stated that “Wendy’s attorneys and the guardianship attorneys were consulted and signed off on” the film.) August 2022–April 2023 saw the filming of Where Is Wendy Williams? chronicled the former host’s dark time as she spiraled after her talk show was canceled because of alcoholism and some health problems, including lymphedema, which causes swelling in her feet, and Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disease that can cause bulging eyes.

While Williams’ old manager Will Selby is seen giving the celebrity a big stack of cash in one moment, the documentary, which started recording after her guardianship was established, showed Williams asking, “Where is my money?” and talking about being broke and having no access to her accounts. Court records dated March in New York for a separate lawsuit between Morrissey and Lifetime state Williams received $400,000 for her role in the movie.

The current financial assets of Williams are not publicly disclosed. Williams previously owned a $4.5 million condo, but documents from the New York Department of Finance filed on February 8 reveal that a tax lien for $568,451.57, accruing between 2019 and 2021, is now in place against it.

Attorney Morrissey declined to address the issue at the time. That matter was moved to arbitration at a Friday, April 19, 2024, court hearing. November 1997 saw Hunter and Williams get married, and in April 2019 they filed for divorce. Son Kevin Hunter Jr. is 23 years old. As Williams has noted in the past, Hunter was “with me every step” of the process of navigating her Grave’s disease diagnosis.

Together, the pair has also survived hardships. In her 2003 novel Wendy’s Got the Heat, Williams detailed the agony that finally resulted in their divorce after Hunter allegedly cheated on her with another woman after Kevin Jr. was born. Though her team did provide a statement from Williams on the same day her dementia diagnosis was revealed in February, Williams has not commented on the ongoing legal dispute between her guardian and ex-husband.

Source:  people.com