Hollywood Horror Stories
Australian Women’s Weekly NZ|November 2019
After his death, the world learned that Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee was the victim of horrendous abuse – and he was not alone. As William Langley reveals, elder abuse is rife in Hollywood.
William Langley
Hollywood Horror Stories
Like the superheroes who sprang from his blotter, Stan Lee, the maestro of Marvel Comics, seemed blessed with special powers. Among them was a phenomenal energy that kept him working into his 90s, an irresistible charm that could disarm the toughest of critics, and a laser-like business brain that helped revolutionise Hollywood.

By the time he died last November, aged 95, Stan’s creations – Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Black Panther, and The Avengers – had come to dominate the modern cinema box office, and the one-time New York sandwich slicer was a global cult figure.

There was, though, one bunch of not-so-comic adversaries that Stan couldn’t defeat. Shockingly, it included some of the people closest to him. In the months since his death, a wave of allegations of mistreatment, cruelty, and exploitation has washed through Hollywood, appalling his fans and highlighting the perils of growing old in a celebrity culture focused on youth, beauty, and easy money.

“I saw all the vultures, snakes, leeches, jackals and coyotes circle around Stan to grab a piece of his flesh,” says his flamboyant former manager, Keya Morgan. “When you’re at your weakest somebody kicks you, especially when you’re a 95-year-old man.”

But now Morgan, a bowler-hatted former antiques dealer who claims friendship with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, is himself under arrest, accused of falsely imprisoning Stan and embezzling $5 million from his estate. Another close business associate has been charged – grotesquely – with stealing Stan’s blood to sell to souvenir hunters in Las Vegas. Even Stan’s actress daughter, Joan Celia, has been accused of abusing him.

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