the wax likeness of McKinzie ahead of the centennial celebration . Edward W. Gray Jr. , an attorney representing the plaintiffs , acknowledged that the sorority disputes the lawsuit 's account of the statue 's price tag . However , he said , `` we have no way of knowing what the actual number was . We hope that it was as little as they say . '' He added that $ 45,000 is still a large amount of money , although , `` certainly , it 's a lot better than $ 900,000 . '' He called the alleged conduct `` shocking and bordering on illegal . '' The wax figures are to appear in the National Great Blacks in Wax museum in Baltimore , Maryland , according to AKA . The museum said they are on a traveling exhibit . The lawsuit , filed last month in a Washington superior court , also accuses McKinzie of using her sorority credit card for `` designer clothing , lingerie , jewelry , gifts and other excessive and inappropriate expenses of a personal nature . '' It demands that the sorority fire McKinzie and the board of directors and that the
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Members of the nation 's oldest black sorority have accused the organization 's president of using her sorority credit card for personal items and its board of directors of spending too much on her . Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority President Barbara McKinzie denies the claims in the lawsuit against her . The suit alleges that the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 's board of directors signed off on spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on President Barbara McKinzie and commissioned an expensive wax figure of her . McKinzie denied the allegations , saying they are `` without merit . '' The most `` outlandish representation '' in the lawsuit , she said , is the allegation that the sorority spent $ 900,000 on a wax figure of her . Two wax figures -- one of McKinzie and one of the sorority 's first president , the late Nellie Quander -- were purchased by the hostess chapters of the sorority 's centennial convention last year , not the national AKA organization , for a total of $ 45,000 , McKinzie said . The lawsuit says the sorority 's board of directors approved the use of $ 900,000 for