Vanessa Bryant Settlement With L.A. County: 29 Million.

[win231]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/us/vanessa-bryant-helicopter-crash-photos-lawsuit-settled/index.html
Evidence at trial showed that a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy showed a photo of Kobe Bryant’s body to a bartender, which prompted an official complaint by another bar patron.
Evidence also showed that firefighters passed around photos with one another at an awards banquet and that others shared them with their spouses.
The almost $30 million settlement includes the $15 million awarded to Vanessa Bryant by a jury in August, Hashmall said.

 

[Tish]

Not that it will heal her heart, but it will certainly help her out.

 

[SeniorBen]

Well, the Bryant family lived in fear that someone might see photos of Kobe Bryant dead body. That's gotta be worth at least $30 million! Could you imagine if someone saw them? My god!

Bleh.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I'm glad she got that settlement. What they did was horrible, heartless, unbelievably unprofessional and as one official put it "grotesque". It could have caused so much more grief for the family if they became public and went viral even. With the carelessness of the firefighters, that could have been possible. I can't wrap my mind why anybody in their positions would even do such a thing!

 

[SeniorBen]

I'm glad she got that settlement. What they did was horrible, heartless, unbelievably unprofessional and as one official put it "grotesque". It could have caused so much more grief for the family if they became public and went viral even. With the carelessness of the firefighters, that could have been possible. I can't wrap my mind why anybody in their positions would even do such a thing!

I agree, but $30 million? Cops murder people all the time and the families of the victims usually settle for a few million. The Bryant family had the money to hire the best lawyers, which is why they got so much. Had that been just some average lower middle class family, they probably wouldn't have gotten anything or just a trivial settlement. It's another example of our two-tier justice system.

 

[Jace]

What do you do with that amount of money
without the 'loves of your life'?

 

[win231]

What do you do with that amount of money
without the 'loves of your life'?

She said she will donate it.

 

[Don M.]

She said she will donate it.

It's a "drop in the bucket" compared to her Net Worth.....600 Million.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/producers/vanessa-bryant-net-worth/

LA county taxpayers will take the hit.

 

[win231]

It's a "drop in the bucket" compared to her Net Worth.....600 Million.

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/producers/vanessa-bryant-net-worth/

LA county taxpayers will take the hit.

Too bad the police officers never take the hit.....which is why they're so willing to do things like this.

 

[Jace]

She said she will donate it.

To HIS foundation..is THAT REALLY donating..from the left to the right hand

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I agree, but $30 million? Cops murder people all the time and the families of the victims usually settle for a few million. The Bryant family had the money to hire the best lawyers, which is why they got so much. Had that been just some average lower middle class family, they probably wouldn't have gotten anything or just a trivial settlement. It's another example of our two-tier justice system.

So true. That's the way of the world!
@Jace I don't know what Kobe's foundation is set up to do but if the money she donates is really going toward helping others, then it is not a from the left to right hand thing. And since the money is from a suit involving her husband, it makes sense that she would donate the proceeds to his foundation, not somewhere else.