Vanessa Bryant has been coping with extra than simply the emotional aspect of shedding husband Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna within the January 2020 deadly helicopter crash — she’s been battling a number of authorized fits since their deaths.
The basketball legend died on the age of 41 on January 26, 2020, alongside his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and 7 different passengers when the helicopter they had been on crashed right into a hillside in Calabasas, California.
The late NBA participant is survived by his spouse and their three different daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri. Following affirmation that Kobe and Gianna had been among the many deceased passengers within the wreck, Vanessa launched an announcement by way of Instagram about her household’s heartbreak.
“There aren’t sufficient phrases to explain our ache proper now. I take consolation in realizing that Kobe and Gigi each knew that they had been so deeply cherished,” she wrote in January 2020. “We had been so extremely blessed to have them in our lives. I want they had been right here with us ceaselessly. They had been our stunning blessings taken from us too quickly.”
She continued, “I’m undecided what our lives maintain past at present, and it’s inconceivable to think about life with out them. However we get up every day, attempting to maintain pushing as a result of Kobe, and our child woman, Gigi, are shining on us to gentle the way in which. Our love for them is limitless — and that’s to say, immeasurable. I simply want I may hug them, kiss them and bless them. Have them right here with us, ceaselessly.”
The next month, Vanessa sued the helicopter firm for negligence and the pilot Ara Zobayan, who additionally died within the accident, for his position within the crash. The mannequin later filed a lawsuit towards the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division in September 2020 for negligence, invasion of privateness and intentional infliction of emotional misery after images of the deceased surfaced regardless of her alleged requests to include the scene.
Amid her two court docket instances associated to Kobe and Gianna’s deaths, Vanessa was sued by her mom, Sofia Laine, for allegedly kicking her out of her house, which Vanessa and Kobe paid for forward of his passing.
Scroll all the way down to see the place all of Vanessa’s lawsuits stand at present — and what she revealed in her deposition:
That is an ongoing article that was initially revealed in October 2021 and final up to date on Tuesday, November 16.