Wendy Williams’ lawyer, Joe Tacopina, claimed the former TV host “will be out of [her] conservatorship” by the end of the year.
“[Williams] does not have frontotemporal dementia, so that should be game, set, match,” the powerhouse attorney said in an interview with ABC’s “Nightline.”
“The plan is this … there are guardianship attorneys … and we’re watching and waiting, and they’ve assured Wendy by year’s end she’ll be out of guardianship,” Tacopina, 59, added.
As Page Six previously reported, last month, a top neurologist determined that the former “Wendy Williams Show” host, 61, did not have frontotemporal dementia, two years after she was diagnosed with the brain disease.
Sources told TMZ at the time that Williams completed a series of tests issued by a New York City-based medical doctor.
The newer findings reportedly conflicted with an earlier test that determined Williams had frontotemporal dementia, a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes that are associated with personality, behavior and language, per Mayo Clinic.
The neurologist’s latest results were sent to Williams’ legal team in late October.
Tacopina told Page Six he would be demanding a jury trial and the first reports of Williams’ new diagnosis.
In 2022, the “Dancing with the Stars” alum was placed under court-ordered guardianship after her bank, Wells Fargo, sent a letter to New York Supreme Court Judge Arlene Bluth requesting a hearing about her well-being.
An attorney for the financial institution wrote that they had “strong reason to believe” Williams was a “victim of undue influence and financial exploitation.”
Two years later, the former radio host, who is also battling Graves’ disease and lymphedema, was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, as well as aphasia.
At the time of her diagnosis, Williams was in an undisclosed treatment center — where her family claimed they were unable to reach her.
In June, Williams’ second ex-husband, Kevin Hunter, filed a $250 million lawsuit seeking to end her conservatorship.
In the suit, Hunter claimed his ex-wife was being “confined against her will at one of Coterie’s assisted living facilities with restricted access to her own phone and meaningful contact with her friends and family.”
The TV producer, 53, also claimed in the complaint that Williams was “being abused, neglected, and defrauded under the care of court-appointed guardians.”
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