Los Angeles - The former manager of Stan
Lee has been charged with elder abuse against the late comic
book legend, a Los Angeles court official said on Monday.
Keya Morgan was charged on Friday with five counts of elder
abuse, including false imprisonment, fraud and forgery stemming
from an incident last summer when Lee was 95 years old, a
spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Superior Court public
information office told Los Angeles City News Service.
The spokeswoman added that a warrant for Morgan's arrest had
been issued.
Morgan, a New York-based memorabilia collector who became
involved with Lee in 2017, was served with a restraining order
last year after Lee's family accused him of elder abuse.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office on Monday said it
was unable to provide any information. An attorney for Morgan
could not be located but last year Morgan denied allegations of
abuse.
Lee, the co-creator of "Spider-Man," "Iron Man," "The Hulk"
and dozens of other Marvel superheroes, died in November 2018 at
the age of 95.
In court documents last year, Morgan was accused of seizing
control of Lee's Hollywood Hills home and hiring security guards
with orders to keep away relatives and associates before moving
the comic book creator to an unfamiliar condominium.