Vanessa Bryant received nearly $29 million in an agreement with Los Angeles County to resolve a lawsuit about photos that were captured of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed her husband, the late Lakers star Kobe Bryant, and her daughter Gianna and seven others.
The agreement ended several years of legal proceedings regarding the helicopter crash that took place in the hills of Calabasas, Calif., on Jan. 26, 2020.
The news of Tuesday’s agreement comes after a federal jury mandated last August—following an 11-day trial—that Los Angeles County pay Bryant $16 million for the “emotional distress” caused by the county’s deputies and firefighters sharing grim photos of the disfigured bodies involved in the helicopter crash. The $16 million for Bryant was also included in Tuesday’s settlement.
