Wendy Williams' shoe makers in China demand payment
From
NY Daily News
Media celebrity Wendy Williams’ failure to pay for 12,140 pairs of shoes
that carry her logo has wreaked havoc on the owners of a small
manufacturing firm in China, their lawyer charges.
The owners of Max Harvest International Holdings went into hiding this
month after the shoe factory owner — who hadn’t been paid — kidnapped
one of their managers in mainland China, according to sources.
The kidnappers held the man for two weeks before releasing him shaken
but unharmed.
The manufacturing firm’s owners, a businessman and his wife who do not
want to be identified, fled Hong Kong, a New York based business
associate said late Tuesday.
According to the Hong Kong couple's lawyer, Staci Riordan of Los
Angeles, Williams and her husband, Kevin Hunter, never paid their shoe
bill which now exceeds $419,000.
She said they signed a contract last year to buy the shoes —part of
Williams’ “Adorn” line."Things don't work in China the way they work in
the United States," Riordan said.
She said she has been trying for months to negotiate a settlement, but
if it can't be resolved soon, her client will file a lawsuit in
Manhattan Supreme Court.
Williams, a radio personality who now hosts a daytime talk show on BET, declined to comment.
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