Vanessa Bryant has pledged the $16 million she won in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County over her husband’s helicopter crash site photos, glamsquad reports.
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According to reports, the late Kobe Bryant’s widow’s attorney announced that Bryant intends to donate the money to the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation, a nonprofit named in her husband and daughter Gianna’s memory.
Kobe established the foundation in 2016 and renamed it after the crash in 2020 to provide funding and sports programming to underserved athletes.
On Wednesday, a jury awarded $16 million to Bryant and an additional $15 million to Chris Chester, whose wife Sarah and daughter Payton were also killed in the crash, bringing an end to a two-year legal battle.
During the trial, Bryant’s legal team claimed she suffered emotional distress as a result of several L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Fire Department employees sharing photos from the crash site, including pictures of her husband and daughter’s bodies.
The majority of the funds came from the Sheriff’s Department, which the jury determined had a long history of sharing such photos.
Mrs. Bryant’s husband, Kobe Bryant, 41, daughter Gianna, 13, and six family friends were killed in a helicopter crash in California in January 2020.