L.A. County to pay $28.85M in Vanessa Bryant's lawsuit over photos from crash that killed Kobe

The settlement brings the county's total expenditure in the scandal to nearly $50 million, not including money spent on the defense lawyers who took the case to trial.

Vanessa Bryant leaves the First Street federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2022. (Photo by Meghann M. Cuniff)

Los Angeles County will pay Vanessa Bryant $28.85 million for misusing photos from the helicopter crash that killed Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna, ending the widow’s remaining legal claims in a…