{"id":2082765,"date":"2025-10-10T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2082765"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:38:04","slug":"judge-dismisses-wendy-williams-ex-husbands-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/judge-dismisses-wendy-williams-ex-husbands-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Wendy Williams\u2019 Ex-Husband&#8217;s Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article-template-heading\">\n<figure>\n                            <br \/>\n                        <\/figure>\n<div class=\"article-info-row\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/author\/jameelah-mullen\/\" class=\"author\">by <b> Jameelah Mullen <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-date\">October 10, 2025<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"sub-text\">Hunter filed the lawsuit on Williams&#8217;s behalf in June.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"regular-line\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Wendy Williams\u2019 ex-husband, Kelvin Hunter, earlier this year<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to remove Sabrina Morrissey as her guardian, TMZ reports. .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Williams did not request Hunter to <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/wendy-williams-says-she-had-no-idea-ex-husband-filed-lawsuit-in-her-name-he-is-a-money-grubber-11758083?\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">file a lawsuit <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on her behalf.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe has no standing to add her name [to the lawsuit] or no authority from Wendy whatsoever. And we certainly don\u2019t need his help if we want to file a lawsuit. So, thanks, but no thanks,\u201d Williams\u2019 attorney Joe Tacopina, told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge dismissed the case earlier this week, but it was noted that Hunter can amend the lawsuit himself and remove Williams from\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his original filing, obtained by TMZ Hunter sought to replace Morrissey with another conservator and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/06\/18\/wendy-williams-says-not-part-lawsuit-ex-husband-kevin-hunter-filed-guardianship\/\">requested a forensic accountant<\/a> to review Williams\u2019 finances. He also sought $250 million in compensation for \u201cfinancial losses, emotional distress, and damage to his reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The TV personality phoned in to an Oct 9 segment on TMZ and said she was \u201chappy\u201d the judge threw the case out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOf course he wants to steal my money, Williams told TMZ\u2019s Harvey Levin.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPmiyj-gH8r\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the call, Williams also admitted that she was unsure of how much money she actually has.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, a New York court appointed a guardian for Williams after finding her incapacitated and unable to handle her affairs. In February 2023, doctors diagnosed her with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA). She now lives in an assisted living facility where, according to the <em>celebrity.land<\/em>, the lowest rate is $27,000 per month, and monthly expenses can reach about $52,000. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The TV personality compares living in the facility to being in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Williams and Hunter were married for 21 years and have one son. They divorced in 2020 after Williams learned that Hunter was having a baby with his mistress.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED CONTENT: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/wendy-williams-medical-exam-dementia-guardianship\/\">Wendy Williams\u2019 Medical Exam Re-Diagnoses Her With Dementia And Upholds Guardianship<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '709767812947612');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.blackenterprise.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jameelah Mullen October 10, 2025 Hunter filed the lawsuit on Williams&#8217;s behalf in June. A judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by Wendy Williams\u2019 ex-husband, Kelvin Hunter, earlier this year to remove Sabrina Morrissey as her guardian, TMZ reports. .\u00a0 Williams did not request Hunter to file a lawsuit on her behalf. \u201cHe has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[388424,391755,347144],"class_list":["post-2082765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-guardianship","tag-kevin-hunter","tag-wendy-williams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Judge-Dismisses-Wendy-Williams-Ex-Husbands-Lawsuit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082767,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082765\/revisions\/2082767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}