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judge has granted a restraining order barring a man once called Stan Lee‘s
business manager from having any contact with the 95-year-old comics creator.
Variety reported that Keya Morgan, the 42-year-old memorabilia collector who had
been Lee’s protector is now banned from contacting or coming near Stan, his
daughter J.C. Lee or his brother Larry Lieber. Morgan was charged in June with
filing a false police report after he allegedly called 911 to claim Lee was
being threatened by two armed gunmen in his him. Lee was actually meeting with
two Los Angeles police detectives and a social worker who were performing a
welfare check on him. Morgan tried and was denied entrance to the home and days
later Stan filed for a restraining order to protect him from Morgan. In February
Lee signed a declaration that three men, including Morgan, had tried to take
advantage of his daughter as part of a scheme to “gain control over my assets,
property and money.” In April, however, Lee angrily denied the claims in a video
recorded by Morgan, and threatened to sue anyone who said different. During the
court appearance Lee’s attorney Jonathan Freund claimed that Morgan has stolen
more than $5 million in artwork, cash and other assets. He made it clear that
Lee is paid in cash for autographs. Freund also claimed that Morgan moved Lee
out of his Hollywood Hills home at midnight on June 8 and took him to an
apartment in an effort to isolate him from his family. A lot of these issues
came to light after the death of Joan Lee last December. Since then, one of
Lee’s helpers has been accused of stealing $300,000 from his bank account, and
using $850,000 of his money to buy a condominium. That same person is alleged to
have forged an order for a nurse to draw “several vials” of Lee’s blood, which
was supposedly used to create ink to sign comic books. |
