Vanessa Bryant reaches $29 million settlement with Los Angeles County over Kobe Bryant helicopter crash photos (2024)

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Vanessa Bryant reaches $28.85M settlement with L.A. County over helicopter crash photos. Bryant, the widow of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, sued Los Angeles County and others over photos taken of the scene of the deadly helicopter crash.

The $28.85 million settlement between Los Angeles County and Vanessa includes the $15 million jury award.

While the initial $15 million was awarded to only Vanessa Bryant, the rest of the $28.85 million will be distributed to her three surviving daughters, Natalia, Bianka and Capri, CBS Los Angeles explained. The agreement resolves any future claims by them, related issues pending in state court, and other costs.

According to reports, her net worth is estimated to be around $600 million. After the tragic passing of the LA Lakers legend and her older daughter, Vanessa took up some of her husband's business ventures. Along with being the CEO of "Granity Studios," she is also handles the "Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation."

In one incident, they were publicly shown at a bar. "I live in fear of my daughters being on social media and these popping up," Bryant testified during the trial. Vanessa Bryant plans to donate the settlement money to the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation, which she set up in honor of Kobe and Gianna.

Kobe and Vanessa's foundation supports minority students, and Vanessa donated her $16 million privacy lawsuit winnings to their foundation.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors agreed to pay Bryant $28.85 million to settle her suit and any possible future claims by her and her daughters. The settlement includes the $15 million a jury awarded Bryant in August.

There is no doubt that one of the greatest basketball players of all time is Kobe Bryant, but after his sudden death in 2020 due to a helicopter crash, his wife Vanessa Bryant has been under the spotlight. She has dedicated her life to her daughters and to philanthropic work with a net worth estimated in $600 million.

Kobe Bryant's wife, Vanessa, has apparently decided that she doesn't need three separate mansions in Newport Beach; the 31-year-old just sold a house in the area to the tune of $3.22 million.

This is the third time Bryant's ring has been sold since it was auctioned in 2013 by his parents, Joe and Pam. It was most recently sold a year ago by SPC Auctions.

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Pam Bryant

Kobe Bryant / Mother

To say that Kobe's relationship with his parents was rocky before his untimely passing would be an understatement. The relationship began to sour when Kobe began dating Vanessa. At the couple's wedding in April 2001, his parents did not attend the ceremony.

Vanessa Bryant

The eight-carat emerald-cut purple diamond, worth about $4 million, features an infinity band.

The small cemetery where Kobe Bryant is buried contains the graves of some notable people — including one arguably as famous as the basketball star. Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, were buried Friday at Pacific View Memorial Park in Newport Beach. They were killed Jan. 26 in a helicopter crash.

Vanessa Marie Bryant (born May 5, 1982) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist, and model. She is the widow of American professional basketball player Kobe Bryant. With her husband, she founded the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation in 2007 to provide scholarships to minority college students worldwide.

Per a settlement approved by a Nevada judge on Friday, Jonathan's parents will receive $24.6 million from Papillon Airways Inc., the company that operated the helicopter, and $75 million from Airbus Helicopters SAS, which manufactured the aircraft.

The family of the late Kobe Bryant agreed to a $28.5 million settlement with Los Angeles County to resolve remaining claims in their 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.

For Matt Mauser and his three children, every day since losing wife and mother Christina Mauser in the tragic helicopter crash that killed her, Kobe and Gigi Bryant and six others, is a challenge. But Wednesday, the second anniversary of the accident, is especially tough.