Vanessa Bryant simply acquired a heck of much more cash from L.A. County after her preliminary $15 million win final yr … one other $13 mil or so, in reality, which now accounts for her children.
Kobe Bryant‘s widow has settled with L.A. County, amounting to a complete of $28.8 million — this in keeping with her lawyer, who says this resolves each Vanessa’s unique grievance and subsequent award … in addition to any potential future claims from her surviving daughters.
Unclear when, but it surely appears Vanessa amended her preliminary lawsuit so as to add 20-year-old Natalia, 6-year-old Bianka and 3-year-old Capri as would-be petitioners down the street. Namely, if the alleged photo-sharing of their father and sister’s stays from the helicopter crash in 2020 brought about them rising stress through the years, they may decide the precise time and sue.
Vanessa’s lawyer, Luis Li, says, “Today marks the profitable end result of Mrs. Bryant’s brave battle to carry accountable those that engaged on this grotesque conduct.” He provides, “She fought for her husband, her daughter, and all these in the neighborhood whose deceased household have been handled with comparable disrespect. We hope her victory at trial and this settlement will put an finish to this observe.”
You’ll recall … Vanessa really went to trial over this, taking the stand with emotional testimony about how the considered these photographs of Kobe and Gigi‘s stays presumably being leaked out publicly tortured her — one thing a jury agreed with ultimately.
They awarded her $16M … however a mil bought knocked down afterward because of a clerical error. Vanessa and her group had beforehand mentioned she’d be donating the cash from this to her Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation — and in mild of this, there’s extra to go round.
Kobe and Gianna have been amongst 9 individuals who died within the helicopter crash that day.