Stan Lee's daughter settles elder abuse lawsuit with former convention manager

Per THR, Anderson met Lee in 2007, and spent the next decade handling his numerous convention appearances, where Lee could generate something like $35,000 in a single day of autograph signings and pictures. J.C. Lee’s lawsuit alleged that Anderson then took the vast majority of that money—an alleged $21 million over many years of cons—as well as memorabilia from Lee’s personal collection, and arranged things to put them into his own possession. (Some of these pieces were meant to go into a traveling museum that could be set up at conventions, but the lawsuit alleges that much of it wound up in either Anderson’s personal collection, or his comic book shop.) The suit rests on one of multiple elder abuse accusations J.C. Lee has brought against people who were in her father’s circle in the last years of his life; she’s previously made similar accusations against Lee’s business manager, Keya Morgan (which resulted in a criminal trial that ended in a mistrial).

The settlement arrives ahead of a trial that would have started next week, and which would have featured some fairly incendiary stuff: Anderson’s twin brother (who worked security for some convention jobs) and ex-wife were both scheduled to testify, both saying they’d seen him return home with “stacks of cash” after convention appearances with Lee. No details about the content of the settlement have been released.