Overview
- Journalist Alex Finnie, Wendy Williams’ niece, announced Thomas D. Williams’ death on Instagram on Sunday, Feb. 8.
- No cause of death has been released, and Wendy Williams has not publicly commented as of Monday.
- People reports the guardianship over Williams was upheld in August 2025 after new medical evaluations, while her legal team, including Joe Tacopina, continues efforts to dissolve it.
- Williams’ 2024 disclosure of frontotemporal dementia and aphasia has been challenged by a New York neurologist who later found no evidence of the disease, according to recent reporting.
- Williams previously questioned whether she would be allowed to visit her father because of travel limits under the guardianship, though she attended his 94th birthday in Miami in February 2025.