Vanessa Bryant, wife of the late Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant, departs the court house in Los Angeles, California, on August 24, 2022, after a verdict was reached in her federal negligence lawsuit against Los Angeles County. — AFP
Kobe Bryant’s widow and a family friend were awarded US$31mil (RM139.11mil) in damages by a US jury for distress they’ve suffered over the sharing of photos taken by emergency personnel at a helicopter crash site where their spouses were killed.
The federal jury reached a verdict on Aug 24 in favour of Vanessa Bryant and Christopher Chester after about four and a half hours of deliberations following an 11-day trial in Los Angeles.
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