Man accused of defrauding Stan Lee appears in court

Man accused of defrauding Stan Lee appears in court

PHOENIX

A former business manager of the late comic book legend Stan Lee has had his initial court appearance in Arizona, where he was arrested after fleeing California charges of fiduciary elder abuse.

Keya Morgan appeared Sunday in Maricopa County Superior Court on a charge of being a fugitive of justice.

Court documents show Los Angeles police alerted authorities in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale that Morgan’s cellphone was being used in north Scottsdale.

Police say the 43-year-old Morgan was found in a house with his mother and arrested without incident.

It’s unclear when Morgan will be extradited to California, where he’s facing felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder adult.

Lee died in November at age 95.

Reagan biographer Morris dies at 78

DANBURY, Conn.

Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 78.

Morris died Friday in a hospital in Danbury, a day after suffering a stroke, his wife, Sylvia Jukes Morris, told The Associated Press on Monday.

Morris was a polished prose stylist whose career took off with the success of his first book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. But what cemented his legacy was “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.”

Morris’ upcoming book, “Edison,” is being published by Random House on Oct. 22.

Associated Press