Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff

Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff

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.

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Mar 01, 2023
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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…

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