Kobe Bryant

No one will ever forget Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. It's been several years since the NBA world lost the icon and fans around the league.

We don’t run. We don’t cower. “We don’t quit. [August 23, 2022]

It is Kobe Bryant's birthday, and players across the NBA have been sharing messages for an icon they looked up to. LA Clippers star Paul George has always ...

While he supported the Clippers, George said he was equally as big of a Kobe fan. George has looked up to Bryant since he was a young kid, and had the opportunity to train with Kobe once he reached the NBA. When Paul George first arrived to Los Angeles with the Clippers, he was honest about what his life as a young basketball fan looked like.

Kobe Bryant's widow and a family friend deserve $75 million in damages for the emotional distress they're enduring after emergency personnel shared grisly ...

Kobe Bryant would be 44 years old on Tuesday. Here's a look back at memorable Mamba Mentality quotes and epic Kobe performances from his NBA career.

After taking a 2-0 series lead in 2009 NBA Finals, Bryant gave one of the signature soundbites from his career: “The job’s not finished.” It didn’t take long for Bryant and Co. The team beat Spain by a score of 118-107 in the gold medal game as Bryant chipped in 20 points and six assists. Bryant earned a second gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012. The Lakers honored Bryant by retiring both his No. Bryant’s final game was the full Kobe experience. He hit a game-tying floater in the final seconds of regulation before draining a mid-range jumper at the overtime buzzer to put Los Angeles up 3-1 in the series. Bryant put together the second-highest-scoring game in NBA history with an 81-point masterclass against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. One of the first pieces of official NBA hardware Bryant earned came from the 1997 NBA Dunk Contest in Cleveland, which he won as a rookie. Bryant lobbed up an alley-oop to O’Neal in the closing minute of a Game 7 Western Conference finals victory that blew the roof off Staples Center and sent the Lakers to their first Finals appearance since 1991. He went 28-for-46 overall, 7-for-13 from 3-point range and 18-for-20 from the free-throw line in a 122-104 victory. From there, he created one of the most storied careers in basketball history across his 20 years in the NBA. [“The Last Dance,”](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bulls/last-dance-episodes-5-6-kobe-bryant-appears-michael-jordans-warts-explored) MIchael Jordan had his sights set on Bryant going into the 1998 All-Star Game.

Vanessa Bryant's civil trial against Los Angeles County nears an end as closing arguments begin after 10 days of testimony.

Jennings Lavoie also told the jury about the plaintiffs’ theory that the county is liable for the conduct of its employees in this case because it failed to have adequate policies or training to prevent it. He testified last week that he was in court because of "false allegations," that he couldn’t remember being at the crash scene that day and This was another key part of the plaintiffs’ case – the destruction of evidence. He said he had no clue, leading the plaintiffs attorneys to imply it could still contain grisly photos that could reemerge at any moment. One involved fire captain Tony Imbrenda showing crash photos at an awards gala in February 2020, when a witness testified she overheard that the photos included an image of Kobe’s “burnt-up” body, which Imbrenda denied at trial. It was also the first day of closing arguments and the first time an attorney put a dollar amount on what they want the jury to award Bryant and Chris Chester, her fellow plaintiff at this trial: It was a photo of her and Kobe with a comment: Her remembrance soon turned to sadness in court, where the trial is nearing an end. Bryant wore black to the trial Tuesday and made her first public Instagram post since the trial began Aug. It shocks the conscience times 1,000. "Forty-four years ago today, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kobe Bryant was born,” Bryant’s attorney, Craig Jennings Lavoie, told the jury as he began his closing argument. They are not blaming the county for the crash itself

Former Laker teammate Pau Gasol and others remember Laker legend Kobe Bryant on what would have been his 44th birthday.

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Kobe Bryant's widow Vanessa Bryant deserves millions in damages because she will always “live in fear” that gruesome photos of her loved ones' charred ...

The county has also worked tirelessly for two and half years to make sure its site photos of the crash were never publicly disseminated. Lavoie said testimony and evidence in the case proved that photos of Kobe Bryant’s body were displayed for others by a deputy in a bar and a fire official at an awards gala, claiming a lack of policies and training was partly to blame. She was adamant the county did not violate the Bryant family’s constitutional right to privacy. “The county continues to express its deepest sympathies for the families that suffered this terrible loss. “Can you imagine hiking down into a ravine to take personal souvenir photos of a deceased child… “She felt she needed to run down to the end of the pier and jump into the water, but she couldn’t escape her body. She couldn’t escape the pain of losing her husband and daughter.” Still, he said investigators also failed to conduct a thorough probe after the photo scandal surfaced. “A million dollars (per year) because of the cruelty,” Jackson said. County Fire Captain Brian Jordan returned his laptop with the hard drive missing. In his own closing argument Tuesday, Vanessa’s lawyer Craig Lavoie recalled how his client gave harrowing testimony last Friday detailing the moment she first learned of the unauthorized photos. Based on life expectancy, he said Bryant should get $40 million for future suffering, while Chester should receive $30 million.

When Vanessa Bryant filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit for the Kobe Bryant crash photos leak, she was seeking millions in damages.

“They did it inhumanely and then they laughed about it, lied about it, and tried to cover it up. The Bryant matriarch also shared her fear of the photos spreading on social media. It is said to be for both the Bryant and Chester families, though Vanessa’s lawyer didn’t mention their own figures.

Shaquille O'Neal has told this story many times on several podcasts. When he first met with Jerry West to sign his deal with the Lakers, Mr. West told him ...

By the time he was ready to graduate, Kobe’s fame was on national scale, even outside of basketball. Kobe and his family moved back to Philly from Europe when he was 13, just in time for him to play high school ball. On December 16, 2010, the school held a sold-out dedication ceremony for Kobe Bryant, naming the school’s new gym after him. He enrolled at Lower Merion High school in 1992, where he played on the varsity basketball team as a freshman and became the first freshman in decades to start for their varsity team. West told him how he just drafted this kid out of high school named Kobe Bryant and said he would be a superstar. Before the pen touched the paper, Jerry stopped him and said that the two of them would win multiple championships together.

Kobe Bryant would be 44 years old on Tuesday. Here's a look back at memorable Mamba Mentality quotes and epic Kobe performances from his NBA career.

After taking a 2-0 series lead in 2009 NBA Finals, Bryant gave one of the signature soundbites from his career: “The job’s not finished.” It didn’t take long for Bryant and Co. The team beat Spain by a score of 118-107 in the gold medal game as Bryant chipped in 20 points and six assists. Bryant earned a second gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012. The Lakers honored Bryant by retiring both his No. Bryant’s final game was the full Kobe experience. He hit a game-tying floater in the final seconds of regulation before draining a mid-range jumper at the overtime buzzer to put Los Angeles up 3-1 in the series. Bryant put together the second-highest-scoring game in NBA history with an 81-point masterclass against the Toronto Raptors on Jan. One of the first pieces of official NBA hardware Bryant earned came from the 1997 NBA Dunk Contest in Cleveland, which he won as a rookie. Bryant lobbed up an alley-oop to O’Neal in the closing minute of a Game 7 Western Conference finals victory that blew the roof off Staples Center and sent the Lakers to their first Finals appearance since 1991. He went 28-for-46 overall, 7-for-13 from 3-point range and 18-for-20 from the free-throw line in a 122-104 victory. [“The Last Dance,”](https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/bulls/last-dance-episodes-5-6-kobe-bryant-appears-michael-jordans-warts-explored?chrcontext=WMAQ) MIchael Jordan had his sights set on Bryant going into the 1998 All-Star Game. From there, he created one of the most storied careers in basketball history across his 20 years in the NBA.

Jackson and one of Bryant's attorneys delivered their closing arguments Tuesday, with the county expected to address the jury in Los Angeles federal court ...

Chester’s constitutional rights,” Lavoie said, asking the jury to hold the county liable for “the constitutional violations of its employees.” He quoted Sheriff Alex Villanueva saying that employees of the department and other agencies have a long-standing custom of creating “death books” showing pictures of human remains. The county has not disputed that at the very least some photos were shared with deputies and firefighters, but defense attorneys maintain that all images taken by first responders were deleted upon orders of superior officers, and no longer exist in any form. The arguments came on the 10th day of trial for Bryant and Chester’s combined lawsuits alleging negligence and invasion of privacy for the taking and sharing of accident scene photos, which the county says have all been destroyed. For Bryant, 40, that would mean $40 million and for Chester, 48, it would be an award of $30 million, according to the attorney. Discussing the awards for future pain and suffering against the county sheriff’s and fire departments, Jackson told jurors that if they felt the proposed monetary damages were too high, “you should reduce it.

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The Los Angeles Lakers made sure to celebrate Kobe Bryant's birthday in a way that the Black Mamba would approve.

[have also shared their heartfelt messages and tributes](https://clutchpoints.com/lakesr-news-kobe-bryants-44th-birthday-draws-tributes-from-pau-gasol-kyrie-irving-others/) for the Black Mamba on Tuesday. Despite him being taken too early, it is clear the Lakers are doing their best to make sure his legacy lives on. “One of your family’s most special days has landed on one of our organization’s most celebrated days.

Attorney Jerry Jackson called the figure "a fair and reasonable compensation. You can't award too much money for what they went through."

Chester’s constitutional rights,” Lavoie said, asking the jury to hold the county liable for “the constitutional violations of its employees.” He quoted Sheriff Alex Villanueva saying that employees of the department and other agencies have a long-standing custom of creating “death books” showing pictures of human remains. The county has not disputed that at the very least some photos were shared with deputies and firefighters, but defense attorneys maintain that all images taken by first responders were deleted upon orders of superior officers, and no longer exist in any form. The arguments came on the 10th day of trial for Bryant and Chester’s combined lawsuits alleging negligence and invasion of privacy for the taking and sharing of accident scene photos, which the county says have all been destroyed. For Bryant, 40, that would mean $40 million and for Chester, 48, it would be an award of $30 million, according to the attorney. Discussing the awards for future pain and suffering against the county sheriff’s and fire departments, Jackson told jurors that if they felt the proposed monetary damages were too high, “you should reduce it.

Kobe Bryant Day is observed on August 24. The basketball legend died in a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020, when he was headed for his daughter's ...

The day is also celebrated to inspire people to be great in whatever they want to do, Steel said. The day serves as a reminder to young people to never give up on dreams. It is also a day after Bryant’s birthday on August 23.

For many in the NBA community, it can still be difficult to accept the fact that Kobe Bryant is gone more than two years removed from his tragic death.

He was an author. 24 as Kobe Bryant Day](https://twitter.com/ArashMarkazi/status/767882436038500353), celebrating the five-time NBA champion after his retirement by recognizing the two jersey numbers (Nos. He was an Oscar-winning filmmaker.

They may be a little too young to remember, but the newest members of Laker Nation got a sweet care package from UCLA Health. For the second year in a row, ...

They've already got a little of the Mamba Mentality in them." "WELCOME TO THE WORLD! In addition to scoring the Purple and Gold swag, the little ones were also presented with a heartwarming note from the Lakers and UCLA Health that read, in part:

Kobe Bryant's widow and a family friend deserve $75 million in damages for the emotional distress they're enduring after emergency personnel shared grisly ...

An attorney urged a jury in federal court to award $75 million to Vanessa Bryant and her fellow plaintiff, Chris Chester -- whose wife and daughter were ...

Los Angeles County has argued that the crash photos were never posted online and ended up being deleted shortly following the crash. In 2020, both Bryant and Chester chose to sue Los Angeles County. Chester's attorney, Jerome Jackson, asked for $2.5 million apiece for Bryant and Chester due to their two years of "emotional distress."

An enormous new mural in honor of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant will be unveiled in downtown Los Angeles on Mamba Day 2022.

The book is "Epoca," one of the children's stories Bryant created through his Granity Studios company after he retired from basketball. "Kobe Bryant created stories for children that featured Black and Brown characters, so he inspired kids in ways that went even beyond what he did on the basketball court," Smith told City News Service. The new outdoor mural measuring 125 feet-by-32 feet is at the offices of the West Coast Trial Lawyers at 1147 S. The numbers are a nod to the two jersey numbers Bryant wore during his 20-year career with the Lakers. Both numbers were retired by the Lakers in 2017, the year after he retired. The unofficial remembrance of Bryant, nicknamed "Black Mamba," is every Aug.

Kobe Bryant Day will include the unveiling of a mural in downtown L.A. and a special light show at Santa Monica Pier.

Chris Chester, whose wife, Sarah, and 13-year-old daughter, Payton, were also killed in the crash, joined Bryant in the lawsuit. 8 beanie hats and certificates to say that they’ve “already got a little bit of the Mamba Mentality in them.” 26, 2020, helicopter crash [along with seven others](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-27/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-victims), playing basketball atop a giant rendering of “Epoca,” the book series Bryant created. When Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on Jan. The mural, which takes up the building’s entire side wall, features a closeup of Bryant in black and white. The annual Kobe Bryant Day celebration will include the unveiling of a giant outdoor mural at the West Coast Trial Lawyers’ offices at 1147 S.

It's not every day you get to sit down and hear a story from the legendary Bill Bertka. And his stories — there's nothing like them.

he became a very special person in the world.” “As I reflect on him during his career,” Bertka declared, “He had intangibles. “It was that 1999-2000 season that Kobe Bryant became a legitimate basketball player.” He became a champion for the first time too. You could always see that he had those.” He knew every player.” He was gonna’ show you that he didn’t have any weaknesses.” In their fifth game, a deciding game, “this rookie, Kobe Bryant,” Bertka recalled, “takes four ill-time shots. He said he was standing there with the ball in his hands. He didn’t enter the NBA and immediately become a disrupter. And as he’s sitting with me in the conference room, he swings his hand up in the air and slaps it down on the glass, his 1985 NBA championship ring clanging against the surface. “There were two phases of Kobe,” Bertka started things off. He apologized to me for the delay, still chuckling at his observation.

The mural, the largest ever unveiled featuring the former Lakers legend, comes on Mamba Day, the annual celebration of the life and career of Kobe Bryant.

During his playing career, Bryant became known for his unrivaled intensity — a trait that made him one of the sport's most loved and hated players. I just kind of wanted to commemorate her and keep her joy alive throughout the city." Kobe often reached out to upcoming NBA stars, lending advice but also calling on them to rise to the occasion and complete a set of challenges. "I wanted to focus on the creative genius that is Kobe Bryant," said Smith, one of the illustrators behind the striking mural. To his left, a beautiful and realistic depiction of a black mamba, referring to the highly venomous snake that Kobe modeled his alter-ego around after a decision to separate his personal life from his playing career — noting the striking ability and temperament of the creature, which is also known to shed its skin. It's the largest portrait of Bryant ever displayed in L.A., created by a duo of artists Odeith and Nikkolas Smith

A group of nine federal jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the civil case over graphic photos taken at the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe ...

In their rebuttal, Bryant's attorneys argued the photos could still exist because one of the deputies AirDropped them to a firefighter that hasn't been identified. Referring to testimony given by veteran law enforcement officials including Sheriff Alex Villanueva, Li reminded the jury of a practice of first responders keeping "death books" since the Polaroid was around. "Does it shock the conscience that he needed to talk?" Li was emotional as he said: "But for those people, we may never have heard of this." The rebuttal evoked tears from Vanessa Bryant and Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka in the courtroom. "That's not a constitutional issue, that's a county issue," she said. Jurors also will have to wrestle with what constitutes "the public" in this case. One of the deputies shared photos containing human remains with another deputy as they were playing the video game "Call of Duty," and another showed them to a bartender he considered a friend. Los Angeles County, though, has argued that it acted appropriately to investigate and delete the photos and prevent them from ever spreading. Their attorneys asked the jury for damages of up to $42.5 million for Bryant and $32.5 million for Chester. She also noted that the deputy was disciplined for his actions. The misdemeanor crime is punishable by up to $1,000 per violation.

That was the line Los Angeles County attorney Mira Hashmall returned to over and over in urging a federal jury to reject Vanessa Bryant's claims that her ...

“It's a pictures case with no pictures,” county lawyer argued before jurors started deliberating case about graphic crash scene photos admittedly shared by ...

And Jackson reminded jurors that he himself received an voicemail message at his office during the trial from someone purporting to have possession of grisly crash scene photos for sale. Li said the lawsuit from Bryant and Chester revealed “pure chaos” when it came to training and guidelines related to sensitive photos taken by county officials for no legitimate purpose. She is here today to expose the county sheriff’s department and fire department.” Imbrenda showed photos of remains to a group that included fellow firefighter Sky Cornell and his girlfriend at the gala. She argued the photo sharing by Deputy Joey Cruz at the Baja California Bar & Grill in Norwalk, Calif., and the display of photos by Firefighter Captain Tony Imbrenda at an awards dinner were instances where the images never left the county employees’ handheld devices. County Fire Captain Brian Jordan as they toured the wreckage have ever surfaced online, been shared with the media or even been seen by Bryant and Chester.

Jury in Vanessa Bryant's civil trial against Los Angeles County begins deliberations after 11 days of testimony and arguments over Kobe crash photos.

“Apparently, accountability means $75 million from a public entity in the county of Los Angeles,” Hashmall said. If so, the jury then can decide to award damages based on evidence and “common sense,” according to the instructions given to the jury by U.S. Judge Walter also told the jury this case is not about who is responsible for the crash itself. Hashmall noted to the jury that this case “can’t be about revenge” for Bryant. There is no box for better training and better policies (to force upon the county).” “She trusts that you will find what is a just and reasonable number,” Li told the jury. At the end of the day, though, the only box you’re going to have (to fill out) is the one for damages. He also brought up the time a fire captain showed crash-scene photos at an awards gala in February 2020 like it was a “party trick.” He recommended both plaintiffs be awarded $2.5 million each for their last 2.5 years of suffering and then should get up to $1 million for the rest of their lives – roughly 30 years for Chester and 40 for Bryant. Bryant and Chester brought this case to trial after filing a lawsuit against the county several months after the crash. This includes the time she said sheriff’s deputy Joey Cruz “made a mistake” when Mira Hashmall, the lead outside counsel for the county defendants, made her case Wednesday during closing arguments to the jury.

Jury ordered L.A. County to pay $31 million in the trial over graphic photos from Kobe Bryant helicopter crash site that sheriff's deputies and firefighters ...

Under cross-examination Friday, Villanueva said the fact that no photos have surfaced online proved that internal investigators assigned to the case had done a thorough job stopping their spread. The phone of Joey Cruz, a deputy who showed graphic photos to a bartender in Norwalk, had been reset before it was turned over to the firm, Lavoie said. County lawyers countered that there were legitimate reasons for first responders to take and receive the photos, including to help determine the size of the crash site and decide what resources were needed. They were shown to firefighters and their spouses during an awards gala at a hotel in Universal City in what amounted, one witness said, to a “party trick.” They were passed from one deputy to another as the pair played video games. It wasn’t until most of the involved deputies had received new phones that officials hired a firm to conduct a forensic examination of employee devices. “You can’t award too much money for what they went through,” Jackson said. When it was turned on, it was as if it was new, with no photos saved. Walter that they had reached a unanimous decision. The captain, Brian Jordan, who has since retired, Bryant soon after left the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles without speaking to reporters. Chester lost his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Payton, in the crash. “We’re not here because of an accident,” Bryant’s attorney Craig Lavoie told jurors during his closing arguments Tuesday, on what would have been Kobe Bryant’s 44th birthday.

A jury ruled in favor of Vanessa Bryant after an 11-day trial about gruesome photos that were shared after a helicopter crash that killed nine.

The plaintiffs' attorneys said the spread of the photos came from the morning of the crash, when one deputy, Douglas Johnson, hiked up through rough and foggy terrain to arrive at a grisly scene where body parts and debris lay scattered in the hills of Calabasas. "And the behavior of defendants seemed so outrageous and unnecessary that substantial damages were warranted." Similarly, the jury attributed $9 million of Chester's award to the sheriff's department and $6 million to the fire department. The plaintiffs prevailed on the other liability questions as it pertained to the county agencies' failure to prevent such violations with adequate policies or training. Imbrenda denied this at trial, but one of Bryant’s attorneys asked the jury to consider who was more credible: Imbrenda or the woman who reported what she heard – a former emergency medical technician who also is a cousin of one of the other victims of the crash. This was when fire captain Tony Imbrenda showed crash-scene photos on his phone to a group, including one who walked away saying he had just seen Kobe’s “burnt-up” body, according to the witness. They cited evidence of several people who possessed or received the photos but were never identified, as well as the missing computer hard drive of a fire captain, Brian Jordan, who was rebuked in a letter from his department for taking photos from the crash scene without having a legitimate business reason for doing so. The bartender said Cruz described the photos as including Kobe’s remains, but The county’s legal team said the photos never were posted online and were forever deleted shortly after the crash in an effort to prevent their further spread. “We are grateful for the jury’s hard work in this case," said a statement from Mira Hashmall of the firm Miller Barondess. At the trial, the plaintiffs’ attorneys also emphasized two public incidents in which the photos were displayed or “publicly disseminated,” arguably violating the rights of the plaintiffs. She did not comment as she pushed through a crowd of news cameras and got into black GMC Yukon with her attorney, Luis Li.

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But she emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly, and had never even been seen by the plaintiffs. The pictures were shared mostly between employees of the LA County sheriff’s and fire departments including by some who were playing video games and attending an awards banquet. She acknowledged that they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them.

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A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant's widow $16 million over photos of the NBA star's body at the site of the 2020 ...

[Federal safety officials blamed pilot error](https://apnews.com/article/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-cause-2c87b04d28961fd277927eea8e8e5564) for the crash. [Basketball Hall of Fame,](https://apnews.com/article/basketball-san-antonio-spurs-nba-baseball-sports-d3102b68d9572f1e85755b86a0254c5f) was traveling with Gianna and seven others to a youth basketball game when the helicopter they were aboard crashed into hills in Calabasas west of Los Angeles on Jan. Vanessa Bryant and her attorney declined comment outside court Wednesday. But she emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly, and had never even been seen by the plaintiffs. She acknowledged that they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them. JUSTICE for Kobe and Gigi!”

A jury awarded the widow of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant $16 million in damages over leaked photographs of the January 2020 helicopter crash site.

Evidence also showed that firefighters passed around photos with each other at an awards banquet, and others shared them with their spouses. He said there was "no playbook" for first responders using their personal devices to snap crash site photos. She was also joined by Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka and his wife.

Kobe Bryant's widow had filed suit against the L.A. County Sheriff's Department over the taking and distribution of photos from the crash site by deputies ...

Bryant and Chester each said that they had no confidence in county assurances that the photos, which included close-ups of body parts, had all been located and erased. It first emerged that deputies and firefighters were circulating such photos after a citizen filed a complaint with the sheriff’s office that a deputy was showing off an image of Kobe Bryant’s “decapitated body” at a bar. “The county would love to argue that the harm wasn’t that bad.

A jury awarded Vanessa Bryant $16 million in a case over photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant. She reacted to the news on Instagram.

In a separate [ post](https://www.instagram.com/p/Chm3pNzpczs/), Natalia Bryant, 19, wrote: "Happy Birthday Daddy!" [A federal jury awarded Vanessa Bryant $16 million](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2022/08/24/kobe-bryant-crash-photos-trial-jury-vanessa-bryant-16-million/7890289001/?csp=chromepush) on Wednesday after an 11-day civil trial that went into graphic detail about gruesome photos that were taken and shared. [is celebrating the outcome of a civil case over photos of the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna and seven others in January 2020.](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2022/08/19/kobe-bryant-widow-vanessa-testifies-cries-crash-photos-wants-justice/7846598001/)is celebrating the outcome of a civil case over photos of the helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna and seven others in January 2020.

Ms. Bryant had sued Los Angeles County over the sharing of photos of human remains from the helicopter crash that killed her husband, her daughter and seven ...

The jury disagreed, finding that the failure of both agencies to train employees about the right to privacy amounted to a constitutional violation. Chester’s lawyer, asked the jury to consider awarding a total of as much as $75 million to the plaintiffs — $2.5 million each for past suffering, plus about $1 million for each year of their remaining life expectancy — a formula that would add up to $30 million for Mr. Bryant, showed the jury a flow chart of how the photos had spread. Bryant, testified that he had offered “amnesty” to deputies for coming forward with the images and then deleting them. The suit was an effort hold officials to account for behavior that lawyers for Ms. Villanueva, who took the witness stand just after Ms. Bryant’s friends, including the professional soccer player Sydney Leroux and the singer Ciara, appeared in the gallery to support her. And they said that police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders need the flexibility to document accident scenes before federal investigators or coroner’s officials arrive, so the taking of the photographs was justified. Her lawyers argued that orders from Fire Department and Sheriff’s Department officials to delete the images after inquiries were begun amounted to the destruction of evidence and an attempted cover-up. The photos were not introduced as evidence in the trial. “I felt like I wanted to run down the block and just scream,” Ms. Bryant, a star for the Los Angeles Lakers, achieved a stature in Southern California that far transcended basketball.

Los Angeles county required to pay basketball star's widow and her co-plaintiff, whose family was also in the crash.

The pictures were shared mostly between employees of the LA County sheriff’s and fire departments, sometimes in the context of entertainment, including by some employees who were playing video games, and others attending an awards banquet. Federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the crash. She said that meant that Sheriff Alex Villanueva and other officials had taken decisive and effective action when they ordered those who had the photos to delete them. She acknowledged that they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them. The images of the crash were also seen by some of the employee’s spouses and in one case by a bartender at a bar where a sheriff’s deputy was drinking. [shared grisly photos](https://apnews.com/article/vanessa-bryant-los-angeles-lawsuits-crime-basketball-ac8717aee0d3483656885ddfee28b935) of [the NBA star](https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-sports-general-basketball-boston-celtics-los-angeles-lakers-26f8cb49beef6acc8536a8c8c0033d27), his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash.

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L.A. County must pay Kobe Bryant's widow $16 million for invasion of privacy and distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies ...

"I live in fear every day of being on social media and these popping up," she testified. Vanessa Bryant and her attorney declined comment outside court Wednesday. But she emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly and had never been seen by the plaintiffs. 24 because it represents his jersey numbers -- 8 and 24 -- and is the day after his birthday. The jury deliberated 4½ hours before reaching the verdict on Kobe Bryant Day, which is commemorated in the city of L.A. She cried quietly as the verdict was read.

The wife of the late Kobe Bryant, Vanessa Bryant, won a $16 million lawsuit against Los Angeles County after deputies and firefighters shared photos of the ...

I can’t escape my body.” The problem is I can’t escape. “I felt like I wanted to run, run down the block and scream,” Vanessa Bryant said of learning that deputies and firefighters were sharing photos of the bodies of Kobe and Gigi Bryant, per