Stan Lee’s business partner Keya Morgan was arrested on a warrant Monday on suspicion of filing a false police report, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE.
The arrest comes just two days after the Marvel legend, 95, announced in aTwitter videothat Morgan is his “only partner and business manager.”
“It has come to my attention that many people contact other companies or other people trying to get in touch with me,” he said. “I just want to go on the record saying I have only one partner, only partner who does represent me, and that’s Keya Morgan. Anybody else who claims to be my rep is just making that story up.”
PEOPLE is out to Morgan for further comment.
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Lee founded the production company in 2001 alongside current CEO Shane Duffy and Gill Champion, whom he claims in the complaint “conspired and agreed to broker a sham deal to sell POW! to a company in China and fraudulently steal [Lee’s] identity, name, image and likeness as part of a nefarious scheme to benefit financially at Lee’s expense.”
Additionally, Lee claims Duffy and Champion “knowingly made material misrepresentations of fact, and forged or fraudulently obtained a signature from Lee to give POW! Inc. the exclusive use of Lee’s identity, name, image and likeness.”
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Controversy has recently swirled around Lee, whosued a former business manageralleging fraud and has spoken out defending his daughter after others around him claimedshe was trying to gain control of his assets.
Lee lost his longtime wife Joan, who died at the age of 93 last July. “She was the girl I had been drawing all my life,” Leeonce recalledof his late wife.
source: people.com
