Why Wendy Williams' Ex Kevin Hunter Might Have to Pay Back Some of That Alimony Money... Soon
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It looks like the funds Wendy Williams’ ex-husband Kevin Hunter was enjoying as a result of back payments for spousal support he received as part of their 2020 divorce might not be staying in his pockets for too much longer.
According to recently filed court documents obtained by People, Williams’ legal and financial guardian Sabrina Morrissey is seeking the $112,000 Hunter received as a part of alimony citing the fact that he was “overpaid” for three months and was “unjustly enriched” by Williams’ bank account.
This summation is derived from Williams’ and Hunter’s divorce agreement that said that he was to receive severance pay if Williams’ yearly earned income was “less than 2 times her then yearly salary as of February 1, 2020,” per Morrissey’s suit. She alleges that since the dissolution of the “Wendy Williams Show,” the former daytime talk show host has only received two payments in February 2022 and January 2023 that amount to $2,011 in total.
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As the complaint further claims, Hunter continued receiving payments until January 2022, which he confirmed in his opposition response to the court. “I believe this was largely the result of the fact that the payments had been put on an ‘autopay’ function within her account,” Morrissey claims in her suit. “Her residuals income has been very small since 2021, nowhere near one half of her income in February of 2020 or in October of 2021.”
Her suit continues, “By holding on to the funds he was overpaid, [Hunter] has interfered with [Williams’] right of possessions to those funds.”
In addition to returning the six-figure sum, Morrissey wants Hunter to pay back the interest and requests the court to issue a gag order against him to prevent him from speaking to the others or the press. (Hunter has since deleted his Instagram account.)
“The potential harm to [Williams] is great,” Morrissey added per the documents. “Mr. Hunter and his agents have shown their willingness to talk to the press about these issues. Mr. Hunter, or someone to whom he provided court documents, leaked these documents to the press, for purpose of pressing his advantage and complaining about the court process.”
While Hunter hasn’t responded to this new filing, as previously reported by The Root, he urged a judge to consider his point of view at the time of his previous filing for back spousal support, writing back in March: “This is an emergent matter because I rely on the severance pay for my living expenses and having been without this income for 23 months has affected me greatly.”
He later added, “I would not have to file this motion if the plaintiff did not stop my severance payments and if the plaintiff would have signed the qualified domestic relations order for the AFTRA retirement plan.”
