LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant’s widow and a family friend deserve $75 million in damages for the emotional distress they’re enduring after emergency personnel shared grisly photos of a helicopter crash site where the former basketball star was killed, a jury was told.
Vanessa Bryant and Christopher Chester, an Orange County financial adviser who lost his wife and daughter in the crash, face the rest of their lives living in fear the photos of their deceased family members will appear somewhere in public or online, Vanessa Bryant’s lawyer Craig Lavoie told the nine members of the jury in Los Angeles federal court Tuesday.
“Either the photos will surface and their worst fears will have been realized or they will live in fear that day will come,” Lavoie said in closing arguments on the 10th day of the trial.
