Kobe Bryant Helicopter Crash

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of late NBA legend Kobe Bryant, has reached an almost $30 million settlement with Los Angeles County over photos taken of the scene of the deadly 2020 helicopter crash, an attorney for the county said.

The initial jury award announced in the Kobe Bryant crash trial has been corrected from $31 million to $30 million, after an error had been found in the verdict form from the jury.

A verdict has been reached Wednesday afternoon in the trial over photos taken at the hillside site northwest of Los Angeles where nine people, including Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, died in a January 2020 helicopter crash.

Closing arguments concluded Wednesday morning in a lawsuit over photos taken at the hillside site northwest of Los Angeles where nine people, including Lakers star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, died in a January 2020 helicopter crash.

Vanessa Bryant posted a tribute with a heartfelt message Tuesday to mark Kobe Bryant’s birthday.

Los Angeles County’s acting fire chief told a jury Monday that a retired firefighter “tarnished his dignity” by sharing gruesome photos taken at the remote mountainside site where a helicopter carrying Laker legend Kobe Bryant and eight others crashed, killing all on board.

Vanessa Bryant is expected to testify Friday in the trial over photos taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed nine people, including her husband Kobe Bryant and her daughter Gianna.

A retired Los Angeles County fire captain accused of taking multiple photographs of human remains at the scene of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and eight others and then sending the images to at least one other employee testified Monday that he was ordered to take pictures of the scene and “cover up” the remains of a particular...

A lawyer for the widow of Kobe Bryant told jurors that a “culture of callousness” led Los Angeles County deputies and firefighters to share photos of the remains of Kobe Bryant and other victims of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the Lakers star, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others.

The plaintiffs allege that responding county personnel took graphic close-up photos of human remains at the Calabasas crash site on Jan. 26, 2020, then shared those photos within and beyond their departments.

Vanessa Bryant announced that the Bryant family’s partnership with Nike was set to continue after controversy emerged over a tribute shoe for Kobe and her late daughter Gianna that went online without her permission.

Two years to the day after nine people, including Kobe and Gianna Bryant, were killed in a helicopter crash, a Los Angeles sculptor placed a statue of the basketball superstar and his daughter at the hillside site where they died.

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Attorneys for LA County are asking that a federal judge order the production of Vanessa Bryant’s therapy records going back to 2010, which they believe are central to her lawsuit alleging emotional distress caused by the circulation of crash site photos.

A Los Angeles federal judge Tuesday granted Vanessa Bryant’s motion to compel depositions of Sheriff Alex Villanueva and Fire Chief Daryl Osby in her lawsuit against the county over photos of the Kobe Bryant helicopter crash scene allegedly taken and circulated by sheriff’s deputies.

Kobe Bryant’s widow said she pleaded with the Los Angeles County sheriff to make sure no one takes photographs from the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed the basketball star, and he reassured that the area had been secured

Bryant, 39, sued Los Angeles County last year alleging that county employees “showed off” photos of the crash that killed her late husband, Kobe Bryant, and their daughter Gianna