Wendy Williams Attorney Joe Tacopina Says Guardianship Expected to End This Year

Attorney Joe Tacopina
Wendy Williams Guardianship Will End This Year
… Or So She’s Been Told

Published December 9, 2025 10:15 AM PST

Wendy Williams should regain control of her own life before the new year … according to her powerhouse lawyer Joe Tacopina.

Tacopina spoke to “Nightline” about his client’s guardianship, saying, “The plan is this … There are guardianship attorneys … and we’re watching and waiting, and they’ve assured Wendy by year’s end she’ll be out of guardianship.”

The legendary talk show host has been in a highly restrictive guardianship for more than 3 years, despite the latest neurologist testing saying she doesn’t have frontotemporal dementia — the medical condition is what a judge used to justify the guardianship after Wendy’s guardian claimed Wendy was suffering from dementia.

Frontotemporal dementia, according to multiple experts to whom we have spoken, never gets better — only worse. Yet Wendy has exhibited remarkable neurological resilience since she got clean and sober 3 years ago.

Last month, we reported that in light of the new medical confirmation … if the judge refuses to end the guardianship, Tacopina will then demand a jury trial and ask jurors to free Wendy.

In a clip from his “Nightline” interview, Tacopina told Byron Pitts, “You and I can go take a walk downstairs right now … we’ll find 5 people in an hour who will belong more in a guardianship program than Wendy Williams.”

Wendy has reportedly been paying roughly $18,000 a month to the facility where she’s been housed.