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According to reports, Vanessa Bryant intends to give the sports nonprofit organization that her husband, Kobe Bryant, founded the $16 million she was awarded in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County.
The widow told the Los Angeles Times that she was donating the money to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation “to shine a light on Kobe and Gigi’s legacy.”
According to its website, the Black Mamba charity offers funding and sports programs for young athletes in underserved communities.
The 41-year-old NBA legend and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were killed in a helicopter crash, so the foundation was renamed in 2020.
After first responders captured and circulated graphic images of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, daughter, and seven other people, a federal jury decided on Wednesday that LA County must pay Vanessa Bryant $16 million.
Plaintiff Chris Chester, who lost his wife, Sarah, and daughter Payton in the Calabasas, California, crash, was also given $15 million by the jury.
“From the beginning, Vanessa Bryant has sought only accountability, but our legal system does not permit her to force better policies, more training, or officer discipline,” her attorney Luis Li said. “Those measures are the responsibility of the sheriff’s and fire departments — responsibilities that Mrs. Bryant’s efforts have exposed as woefully deficient, even giving amnesty to the wrongdoers.”
“It is Mrs. Bryant’s hope that this important civil rights case will put to a stop this abhorrent and callous behavior,” he added.
Attorneys for Bryant and Chester detailed how images of the victims’ corpses taken at the crash scene were circulated with members of the LA County sheriff’s and fire departments, as well as seen by some of the employees’ spouses, throughout the trial.
Although the photos have not been made public, Bryant, 40, claimed in court that she “fears every day of being on social media and these popping up.”
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What about the lady coach that lost her life also and her family, 2 daughters and a son and husband