Marvel’s Stan Lee Suing

Stan Lee, the 95-year-old Marvel maestro is suing his former business manager Jerardo Olivarez for $20 million, alleging financial abuse, TMZ reports.

Allegations against Olivarez and others in Lee’s circle emerged earlier this week when The Hollywood Reporter published a blistering report about the warring factions surrounding the iconic creator.

• All of the implicated parties, including Olivarez, Stan Lee museum proprietor Max Anderson and his daughter J.C., have accused each other of manipulation, elder abuse and fraud, according to widespread reports.
• On Friday, Lee filed a lawsuit singling out Olivarez and claiming he “committed conversion, fraud, financial abuse of an elder and misappropriation of his name and likeness” in a series of strange, villainous schemes.
• Among the accusations: Olivarez swindled him out of $1.4 million, forging a $300K check and manipulating a nurse into extracting “many containers” of his blood so he could sell it as a collectible.
• TMZ reported last week that Lee’s friend Keya Morgan uncovered several “Black Panther” comic books with a DNA ink signature thought to be comprised of the blood the ex-manager stole.