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Vanessa Bryant Wins $16M In Trial Over Crash Photos Of Kobe And Gianna Bryant

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Vanessa Bryant Wins $16M In Trial Over Crash Photos Of Kobe And Gianna Bryant Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Berkshire.

0:01.0

What's trending now?

0:02.0

No!

0:03.0

Kristen knows.

0:04.0

It's the Berkshire entertainment prize.

0:06.7

She won.

0:07.7

And I'm so glad she did.

0:09.8

She deserved this.

0:11.3

Shortly after the tragic helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his daughter,

0:14.7

Gianna, along with seven others, there are graphic photos of the aftermath that began

0:19.0

to circulate among Los Angeles County sheriffs and firefighters from the scene.

0:23.5

So they were on the scene taking photos, not in a professional capacity, but for their

0:28.5

own personal benefit.

0:30.5

And these photos were what became the focus of a lawsuit brought on by Vanessa Bryant

0:35.0

and also Chris Chester who lost his wife Sarah and his daughter Peyton in the crash.

0:40.0

And they were alleging extreme emotional distress caused by the photos.

0:43.6

And sure enough, a jury issued its verdict in the lawsuit and awarded Vanessa Bryant

0:51.3

$60 million and awarded Chester $50 million for invasion of privacy and emotional distress.

0:58.4

So now this two year long case has finally been put to rest.

1:01.8

What was the, I forget the history here.

1:03.7

Was it just to share these photos just to go, hey, I got this or was it to turn around

1:08.0

and sell it to tabloids?

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