After an 11-day trial, a Los Angeles federal jury on Wednesday ordered Los Angeles County to pay a combined total of $31 million to Bryant and an Orange County man who lost his daughter and wife in the crash for the mental anguish caused by photos sheriff’s deputies and firefighters took and shared of the crash victims’ bodies.
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Closing arguments are underway Tuesday in Vanessa Bryant’s civil rights lawsuit against Los Angeles County that is centered on the photos taken by first responders of the helicopter crash site that killed her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and daughter Gianna, along with seven others.
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A Los Angeles County firefighter Wednesday strongly denied claims that he displayed grisly photos of Kobe Bryant’s remains to colleagues at an awards banquet in February 2020, a month after the helicopter crash that killed the NBA star and eight others.
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The date January 26th, 2020 will forever weigh heavy on the hearts of sports fans all over the world. It has only been a year, but the world still mourns the death of legendary LA Laker, Kobe “Bean” Bryant. On January 26th, 2020 Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others died in a helicopter crash […]
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(CNN) — Months after Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were accused of sharing graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he supports new legislation that makes the taking such unauthorized images by first responders a crime. California Assembly Bill 2655 would punish first responders who use […]
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Two more families with relatives who died in the Jan. 26 helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others, filed wrongful death/negligence lawsuits against the owners of the chopper, court papers obtained Monday show. The lawsuits were filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court by the families of John Altobelli and […]
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Vanessa Bryant is expressing dismay and anger over reports that some Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies took photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others in Calabasas. A note written by an attorney representing Bryant’s widow and posted on […]
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(CNN) — Sabrina Ionescu delivered yet another masterful performance. This time, it was one for the NCAA record books — and coming on an emotional day. Just hours after the 22-year-old Oregon Ducks star spoke at Kobe and Gianna Bryant’s memorial in Los Angeles, Ionescu was back on the basketball court, having taken a charter flight to […]
