Hollywood Hiding Horrifying Elder Abuse Epidemic!

Hollywood is hiding a horrifying epidemic of elder abuse with frail and dying TV and movie stars trapped in living nightmares of torture and terror, RadarOnline.com can reveal after an explosive special investigation. Experts insist money and power are behind the abuse — with charges of extreme mistreatment, neglect and brazen theft leveled against the caretakers entrusted to nurture the stars in their fading final days. Click through the gallery to find out more.

In the latest shocker, J.C. Lee, daughter of Marvel mastermind Stan Lee, 95, was granted an elderly abuse restraining order against her famous father's former manager and caretaker, Keya Morgan, on July 6. J.C., 68, charges Morgan kept her from contacting Lee while controlling the comic kingpin's $50 million fortune. But the Spider-Man creator insisted he was not the victim of abuse, and that any claims of it are "slander." He defended his manager, calling him "my friend Keya Morgan," which totally confused his family and fans! But the restraining order stays and Morgan is out — for now.

Meanwhile, TV news powerhouse Barbara Walters' friends fear the retired 88-year-old behind ABC's The View is a prisoner in her swanky pad overlooking New York's Central Park. Wheelchair bound from a recent hip break and said to be suffering from hearing loss and heart disease, Walters has become a recluse, only seen by her 24-hour nursing help, insiders dish. While reps insist she's not abused, a source said, "Friends have been trying to see Barbara since the summer, but the doormen keep turning everyone away."

Michael Jackson's mom, Katherine Jackson, 88, was granted a temporary restraining order against her nephew Trent Lamar Jackson last year. Hired to be her driver and live at her California compound, she claimed Trent took over her credit cards, screened her phone calls and neglected to pass on messages, while refusing to leave her alone with visitors. The case was later dismissed without prejudice — but her family's keeping a watchful eye on the situation.

Star Trek icon Nichelle "Lt. Uhura" Nichols, 85, was appointed conservators in May after her son, Kyle Johnson, went to court claiming she suffered from dementia and accusing her manager, Gilbert Bell, of mishandling her finances. Bell denies the claims and says Kyle is just after his mom's fortune.

Beloved Mary Tyler Moore was also in misery before her death at 80 in January 2017. While battling a brain tumor, Mary suffered a broken collarbone, fractured ribs and facial bruises in a string of bizarre falls and called 911 a shocking nine times between May 2012 and October 2014. Third hubby Dr. Robert Levine, who she wed in 1983, was at the center of many of the calls. Sick of being her "caretaker," Levine wanted to move his wife from their Greenwich, Conn., mansion to a nursing home. But Mary told cops Levine was "refusing to leave the house." Police eventually responded to a "verbal dispute" at the residence and reported Levine made a "veiled threat as he left the house and drove off." But no legal action was taken.

Andy Hardy star Mickey Rooney accused his stepson Chris Aber and daughter-in-law Christina of torturous abuse shortly before his death at 93 in April 2014. In an explosive lawsuit, he claimed the pair denied him food and medicine, intimidated, threatened and harassed him and kept him "effectively a prisoner in his own home." Rooney accused them of spending his dough, withholding his mail and forcing him into make public appearances to finance their lifestyle.

Top 40 deejay Casey Kasem's widow, Jean, also was hit with abuse and neglect charges when he passed away at age 82 from dementia and infections in 2014. His adult children — Michael, Kerri and Julie — and his brother, Mouner, sued Jean, charging she isolated her hubby, ignored his medical needs and hastened his death. They claimed Jean kept them from seeing his frail physical condition by moving Casey from medical facilities to a Las Vegas hotel and a Washington state home. Daughter Kerri was finally granted temporary conservatorship, but Casey died in Gig Harbor, Wash. Then Jean, who denied all charges, buried Casey in Norway.

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