As a line on Fashionista reads, “Wendy Williams, how you doin’? Not very well, it seems.”
According to the New York Daily News Wendy Williams, owes $419,000 to the Chinese factory responsible for manufacturing her shoe line. Williams’s financial negligence has apparently resulted in kidnapping and protests.
The TV personality along with husband Kevin Hunter originally made a deal with Chinese manufacturing firm Max Harvest International Holdings to create shoes for her line “Adorn” sometime last year. To date, the company has produced 12,140 shoes for Wendy Williams’s label, and has not yet been adequately paid. The workers have now staged protests against the firm and Williams.
As for the kidnapping allegations, “the factory’s owner actually kidnapped one of the manufacturing firm’s managers, holding him hostage for two weeks before finally releasing him unharmed. Now, the manufacturing firm’s owners, who wish to remain unidentified, have fled Hong Kong in fear of further altercations.”
According to Wendy’s lawyer, Staci Riordan, the star has not paid up because, “Things don’t work in China the way they work in the United States.” She has been in negotiations for months and intends to file a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court if an agreement cannot be reached.
Uh-oh! Let’s hope this all ends well.
What do you make of this whole debacle?
~Cliché
Source: Fashionista
November 27, 2012 2:08 pm
i wonder is she’s gonna gossip about this!
November 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Everything about Wendy is just messy
November 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Wendy Boo Boo Child……
November 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Lmaooo
November 27, 2012 2:20 pm
There was a hostage situation? Messy messy …
November 27, 2012 2:21 pm
Smh… Looks like Wendy is becoming her own hot topic. How sad.
November 27, 2012 2:38 pm
Yikes!! Kidnapped tho?! a mess hunny!
November 27, 2012 2:39 pm
The look on her face on that headline photo is brilliant. Well-chosen Cliche (or was it Claire?)
November 27, 2012 2:41 pm
a kidnapping?! lawwwwwd.
November 27, 2012 2:58 pm
Made in the USA.
#thatisall
November 27, 2012 3:03 pm
Honey this is KARMA!! Only the beginning…. If you are friends with Wendy be careful not to be near her during a lighting storm.
November 27, 2012 3:39 pm
thats what happens when you favor cheap, fast fashion. and just a side note, most of the products you have that are made in third world countries are involved in these types of ridiculous situations. think twice!
November 27, 2012 3:41 pm
@ Mi Manning
I thought the same thing! Bet we won’t see this on hot topics.
Wendy needs to get it together. I love her, so I’m rooting for her to come out on top.
November 27, 2012 3:53 pm
Lord! I would love to hear her address this on hot topics. I’m definitely keeping my ears to the street on this one. Not cool, Wendy!
November 27, 2012 3:53 pm
she is not immune to scandal…. now run tell dat !
November 27, 2012 4:42 pm
Well….at least she’s in good hands with Staci Riordan. She’s one of the best in regards to fashion law.
November 27, 2012 5:25 pm
wow. i was wondering what happened with the shoe line… i wish her well.
November 27, 2012 5:49 pm
I wonder if she’ll talk about this on Celebrity Hot Topics.
November 27, 2012 6:20 pm
I hope she talks about her own dealings. In the words of Wendy herself…”Mmm…Juicy”
November 27, 2012 6:53 pm
Ain’t karma a b*tch. Wendell Williams, I will see you in court.
November 27, 2012 7:51 pm
…but the true shade is in cliche’s choice of pictures. DEAD and Buried and Resurrected and DEAD again. I’m done!!!!
November 28, 2012 2:51 am
lmao at lola, I was thinking the same exact thing. But I admit half of what brings me back every day is the comedy.
November 28, 2012 5:57 am
LMAO.. So funny.
November 28, 2012 8:31 am
@special zebra almost everything you buy was manufactured in “third world countries.” From your “Brazilian” jeans to the “Italian” designer pieces. Get a clue. Got to love American ignorance and arrogance.
November 28, 2012 8:53 am
Wow kidnapping tho!!! That’s Cray!’ I luv me some Wendy but that’s just messy. You kno she’s not saying a peep of this on her show. How YOU doin!???
November 29, 2012 11:21 am
LMFAO I wonder if this is going to be in her ‘hot topics’ segment.