Family of late US basketball star Kobe Bryant awarded nearly US$29mil in photos case


A file photo of Vanessa Bryant (centre) leaving a federal courthouse with her daughter Natalia (center left) in Los Angeles, on Aug 24, 2022. The family of the late Kobe Bryant has agreed to a US$28.5mil settlement with Los Angeles County to resolve the remaining claims in a lawsuit over deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash, attorneys and court filings said on Feb 28, 2023. — AP

Los Angeles County will pay the wife of late basketball star Kobe Bryant nearly US$29mil (RM130.02mil) to settle a lawsuit over allegations that sheriff officers and firefighters shared gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter.

“Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs. Bryant’s courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct,” said Luis Li, attorney for Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant’s wife. “She fought for her husband, her daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect.”

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