Vanessa Bryant, heart, Kobe Bryant’s widow, leaves a federal courthouse in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. A federal jury has discovered that Los Angeles County should pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million over photographs of the NBA star’s physique on the website of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed him. Jae C. Hong, Related Press
The spouse of the late Kobe Bryant, Vanessa Bryant, received a $16 million lawsuit towards Los Angeles County after deputies and firefighters shared photographs of the crash scene, together with photographs of the useless our bodies of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gigi Bryant, per The Related Press.
Kobe Bryant and Gigi Bryant, together with seven others, died in a helicopter crash on Jan. 26, 2020.
The jury dominated that the photographs “invaded her privateness and prompted emotional misery.”
Vanessa Bryant was awarded $16 million and her co-plaintiff, Chris Chester, was awarded $15 million.
“I felt like I wished to run, run down the block and scream,” Vanessa Bryant mentioned of studying that deputies and firefighters have been sharing photographs of the our bodies of Kobe and Gigi Bryant, per The Related Press. “It was like the sensation of desirous to run down a pier and leap into the water. The issue is I can’t escape. I can’t escape my physique.”