


Because the case was still ongoing, there were only a few details about the situation he could discuss. When Williams fired the people who stole from him, they allegedly tried to blackmail him for more money. He claimed he had $14 million in the bank which was all gone due to the embezzlement. “We didn’t really know that until the Department of Justice started indicting these people for the embezzlement of $59 million from Katt Williams.” “In my search for who was the enemy that was causing all these things to repeatedly happen to me over and over again when they shouldn’t, we uncovered that it was actually my people that was involved,” Williams said. The Department of Justice realized that Williams’ former employees stole $59 million from him when looking into the comedian’s finances. The revelation came when the U.S Department of Justice was investigating an embezzlement case. And he told sports podcaster Jemele Hill that the experience led him to not trust other people. How Katt Williams’ own Employees tried to Blackmail him for millions of dollarsĪccording to Complex, Williams once claimed that his own employees secretly stole $59 million from the comedian. One of those scandals saw the Emmy-Winner lose tens of millions of dollars, and the robbers were allegedly people he trusted the most. Part of the reason this might be the case was due to the many celebrity scandals and legal issues Williams has been involved in over the years. Whatever he was worth at his peak, Celebrity Net Worth reports Katt Williams’ current net worth is now $1.5 million. At that time back in 2006, he was reported to be only behind comedy legend Larry King. In an interview with Howard Stern, it was revealed that Williams’ was once the second highest-grossing comedian. To throw out numbers like 2.4 million is ridiculous.” So, in comedy, it’s unheard of to get those numbers. Worldwide, I am on par with the likes of your Bruno Mars, your Jay-Z and Beyonce. “I am sitting on 1.3 million tickets sold….There is nobody close to me in ticket sales in comedy. “That’s more than Beyonce and Justin Timberlake combined,” Hart once said about Williams’ claim. Both Kevin Hart and The Breakfast Club’s Charlamagne doubted his alleged ticket sales. But skeptics debated whether or not Williams’ claims were true.
