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Marvel iconStan Lee’s former business manager was arrested on an outstanding warrant stemming from charges of elder abuse.
Morgan, who is also known as Keyarash Mazhari, was charged with five counts of elder abuse, including false imprisonment, forgery and fraud.
“It had been revealed that no one had clear legal authority to act on Mr. Lee’s behalf; yet, Morgan exerted his control and influence over Lee,” the statement read.
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The false imprisonment charges stem from one month later, when Morgan took Lee – whodied in Novemberat age 95 – out of his Hollywood Hills residence and moved him to a Beverly Hills condo “during the late night hours.”
The LAPD said that Lee was removed from Morgan’s control just days later, on June 11, 2018, whenMorgan was arrestedfor making false 911 calls.
Just days before his arrest, Lee called Morgan his “partner and business manager” in a Twitter video encouraging anyone trying to contact him to go through Morgan.
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“In both instances, Morgan was using this tactic to further deceive Lee into believing he was in danger and needed to be moved from his home to a more secured condominium where Morgan had more control over Lee,” the LAPD’s statement read.
Morgan’s bail is set at $300,000.
Shortly after his arrest warrant was issued, Morgan’s attorney Alex Kessel maintained his client’s innocence.
Before his death, Lee claimed in a civil lawsuit that both of his ex-business partners, Shane Duffy and Gill Champion, took advantage of him while he was grieving the loss of his wife and claimed the two “knew about [his] diagnosis of advanced macular degeneration, which has left him unable to read or drive on his own since about 2015, and they prayed [sic] on his infirmities while he was in a state of disrepair.”
Meanwhile, Lee denied claims that his daughter J.C. was abusing him in a joint interview withThe Daily Beastin October 2018.
“I’m pretty damn lucky. I love my daughter, I’m hoping that she loves me, and I couldn’t ask for a better life. If only my wife was still with us,” he said. “I don’t know what this is all about… We have occasional spats. But I have occasional spats with everyone.”
J.C., 69, denied the claims, which came from Morgan, as well, saying she’d “never touched” her mother, father or a dog.
source: people.com
