JC Lee, the daughter of legendary Marvel author and producer Stan Lee, has denied accusations that she attacked her rich mother and father.
Stan Lee died in November 2018, on the age of 95. He’s thought of to be probably the most influential figures in comedian e book historical past having created characters akin to Spider-Man, The Unbelievable 4, The Unimaginable Hulk, X-Males and Iron Man. His spouse Joan handed in July 2017, additionally aged 95.
Within the April earlier than his dying, Lee was the topic of a prolonged Hollywood Reporter article which included the allegation that JC had attacked her mother and father in 2014 after discovering her new car, a Jaguar, had in fact been leased in her father’s name.
The Hollywood Reporter alleged that she violently grabbed Joan’s arm and slammed Stan’s head against the back of a chair, and claimed they had seen photographs showing bruising on Joan’s arm.
Speaking to Business Insider in a brand new interview, JC Lee, now 75, known as the accusations “lies.”
“I by no means ever touched my mother and father,” she stated.
She went on to say that she adopted recommendation to not make a public denial on the time. “You assume I have never regretted it to at the present time?” she continued. “They’re all lies. That photograph is insane. I by no means did it.”
JC’s former assistant James MacLean concurred in a separate interview with Enterprise Insider, saying that whereas his someday boss might get into shouting matches together with her mother and father they had been by no means bodily.
“They had been equally abusive, the best way they screamed at one another,” stated MacLean. “However then it could be like, ‘Let’s sit down and have dinner.’ That was their relationship.”
Following the 2018 Hollywood Reporter investigation, Stan Lee’s enterprise supervisor Keya Morgan was charged with false imprisonment of an elder, grand theft from an elder and elder abuse. The fees of elder abuse and false imprisonment had been dismissed earlier than Morgan’s trial in November 2022, and the theft costs had been dismissed after a mistrial.
Final month, it was introduced {that a} new documentary was being deliberate to discover Lee’s last years and examine claims that the star was topic to “mistreatment, manipulation and betrayal.”
Nevertheless, the Kickstarter for Stan Lee: The Closing Chapter was cancelled two weeks in the past earlier than it reached its funding purpose.
Other than his work in comedian books, Lee additionally grew to become well-known for his cameos in dozens of films and TV reveals. His last look was in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, which was launched a handful of months after his dying.
