Wendy Williams' Guardian Wants Her Ex-Husband To Return $112k In Divorce (2024)

Wendy Williams' guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, has filed a court document claiming the former talk show host's ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, was "unjustly enriched."

Morrissey is now demanding he return the $112,000 he was "overpaid" after the dissolution of their marriage. She also wants him to pay the interest on the money and for the judge to place a gag order on him to prevent him from talking about the issue.

Wendy Williams' Guardian Files For Her Ex-husband To Return $112k

According to The Sun, Williams's guardian, Morrissey, wants her estranged husband to return an alleged excess severance payment he got following their divorce.

Morrissey alleged in the filing that Hunter was "overpaid" $112k for three months and was "unjustly enriched" by Williams' bank.

The "Wendy Williams Show" stopped paying Williams in October 2021, but Hunter continued receiving payment until January 2022.

Morrissey claimed in the documents: "I believe this was largely the result of the fact that the payments had been put on an 'autopay' function within her account."

In her opinion, the payments go "against the express terms" of Williams and Hunter's settlement agreement, which stated that his payments would cease if her income was reduced to "less than 2 times her then yearly income (as of Feb. 1, 2020)."

The court documents state, "By holding on to the funds he was overpaid, he has interfered with [Williams'] right of possessions to those funds."

Sabrina Morrissey Wants Kevin Hunter To Also Pay Interest

As seen in the court filing, Morrissey also wants Hunter to pay back the interest accrued on the fee and for the court to place a gag order on him to prevent him from talking to the "press or others."

"The potential harm to [Williams] is great," she said. "Mr. Hunter and his agents have shown their willingness to talk to the press about these issues."

"I request that the Court increase the protection of this case and issue a 'gag order' thereby instructing Mr. Hunter not to speak to the press or others, except for legal advisors, about these matters and to instruct anyone with whom he has previously discussed these matters that they should not communicate about these matters with anyone else," the filing read.

Wendy Williams Finalized Her Divorce From Kevin Hunter In 2020

The 59-year-old former talk show host finalized her divorce from Hunter in January 2020, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the cause of their split.

She filed for divorce in 2019 after Hunter's mistress, Sharina Hudson, gave birth to a baby girl.

At the time, he reportedly received a lump sum from Williams and a severance payment from her after she had previously given him $250,000 to assist him find a new place to stay.

Kevin Hunter Wants The Payment To Resume

According to The Sun, Williams' ex previously filed a court document demanding that the payment from his marital settlement agreement with her resume after it stopped just before she was assigned a guardian in 2022.

"I rely on the severance pay for my living expenses, and having been without this income for twenty-three months has affected me greatly," Hunter wrote in the filing.

He went further to demand that Williams, via Morrissey, "immediately pay all severance payments which may be due and owing at the time of this Court's Order."

Sabrina Morrissey Previously Accused A+E Network Of Exploiting Williams

Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal lobe dementia and aphasia in May 2023 after a prolonged battle with substance and alcohol abuse.

She notably reclined from the spotlight, prompting Lifetime to create a documentary tagged, "Where Is Wendy Williams?"

According to Page Six, in a previous court filing, Morrissey alleged that A+E Networks "shamelessly exploits" Williams in the documentary.

The court filing showed Morrissey accuse the network of "humiliating" Williams by filming her "in an obviously disabled state," which "cruelly implies" that her "disoriented demeanor is due to substance abuse and intoxication."

She claimed that the media personality was coyly told the documentary would portray her "in a positive manner like a phoenix rising from the ashes."

"This blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition who is beloved by millions within and outside of the African American community is disgusting, and it cannot be allowed," the filing read.