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PRYOR’S KID WANTS WIFE REMOVED AS TRUSTEE: Late comic’s daughter says Jennifer Pryor mentally abused her father.
*The daughter of Richard Pryor filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court last week seeking to remove her father’s wife as a trustee of Pryor's estate and accusing her of "elder abuse."
According to TMZ.com, the late comedian’s daughter, Elizabeth, has accused Pryor’s widow Jennifer Lee of mentally abusing her father, who suffered from multiple sclerosis and died in December just days after his 65th birthday.
Elizabeth claims Jennifer kept Pryor away from his family and friends, and limited family visits to once a month for no more than 40 minutes at a time.
According to the petition, the alleged abuse caused Pryor "depression, despair, agitation, and other extreme mental suffering."
"Given Mr. Pryor's utter dependence on Jennifer for his personal and financial welfare, her actions were reckless, oppressive, fraudulent and malicious," the petition read.
Jennifer Lee and Richard Pryor were divorced in 1982, but remarried in June 2001.
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Jennifer Lee & Richard Pryor shown together in a 1978 photo (from www.RichardPryor.com)
