Vanessa Bryant on Thursday accused her mother of having to pay years of salary for working as an unpaid assistant following the death of her husband Kobe Bryant.
The family quarreled after Sofia Barbita Lane sued her 38-year-old daughter for financial help, alleging that she had worked for the couple for years as an unpaid “personal assistant and goat” and that the Lakers legend “promised to take care”. Gave. His mother-in-law in the remaining days after he died in a helicopter crash on January 26.
“Unfortunately, Kobe Bryant’s promise did not see the light of day because he is now dead and Vanessa Bryant took every step to cancel and revoke all of Kobe’s promises,” Vanessa Bryant said. To honor.
It was the final straw for Bryant, who also lost his 13-year-old daughter Ginna in a Calabasas helicopter crash that killed nine people and has been the subject of an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
In a statement, he wrote that his 68-year-old mother was “trying to fill the economic wind from our family.” Bryant said she and her husband had helped her mother financially for nearly 20 years, which allowed her to live for free on a property near her Newport Coast home.
“She was a grandmother whose request was supported by me and her son-in-law,” Bryant said. “He now wants to pay me 96 hours per hour for working 12 hours a day for 18 years to look after his grandchildren. In fact, he used to tease my older girls only when he was a toddler. ”
Bryant said she was the single mother of his daughter Natalia, 17; Bianca, 4; Capri, 18 months, and Ginna. He wrote that most of the children in the last decade were in school or sports and that his mother’s claims were “clearly false.” Vanessa Bryant said her mother had never been involved in her and Kobe Bryant’s business or finances.
Bryant said their relationship grew when she tried to make peace with her mother.
“Earlier this year, I was looking for a new home for him and, a week later, he went on television and interviewed that our family is being defamed and making false allegations while living without rent in the Gate complex apartment complex on the Newport Coast.” She said.
In that interview with Univision, Sophia Lane alleges that she was forcibly evicted from her home by her daughter and returned a luxurious car. “I need you out of the house,” she told me. “El Gordo wa la Fraca,” Lain said.
Bryant said the visit was “out of harm’s way.”
“Even after that betrayal, I was willing to provide my mother with a lifetime of monthly support, and it wasn’t that good. Instead, she approached me through intermediaries – contrary to what she claims, my phone number has not changed – and demanded million 5 million, a house and a Mercedes SUV. “
According to financial experts, Vanessa Bryant inherited a કિંમ 600 million estate after Kobe Bryant’s death.
He said he would not make “false and absurd claims” and demands.
“It doesn’t matter how it affects my children or me,” Bryant said. He added that his mother wanted to live the rest of his life for him while collecting divorce from the 2004 divorce.
“My husband and I never disappointed him or stopped him from providing for himself,” Bryant said.
“My husband never promised my mother anything, and she will be disappointed by his behavior and lack of empathy,” she said in her statement.
