Vanessa Bryant

Bauer Griffin Last night, Kobe Bryant attended the ESPY Awards with his wife Vanessa , who he met on the set of a music video for Eastsidaz ten years ago. Vanessa is known for dressing provocatively, so the knotted, sparkly black dress she chose for the ESPY event wasn't a complete surprise. It just might not have been a great choice. Sure, Vanessa is beautiful, but the dress looks a bit too tight. Is there ever such a thing as overexposure? Or does Vanessa pull off this risky look? Read Full Story

Unless your boss recently forced to you put your hand in a container of dog crap, you've got it better than Vanessa Bryant's former housekeeper. Vanessa Bryant and her husband Kobe are being hauled into a court by a former house keeper that claims, among other things, that Vanessa forced her to reach into a container of dog crap to retreive a price tag for a blouse. Maria Jimenez filed the the suit on Friday in Orange County, saying that Vanessa "badgered, harassed and humiliated" her in front of Kobe and the two Bryant children, and that the couple owes her more than $20,000 ... Read Full Story

NBA player Kobe Bryant and wifeVanessa arrive at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards at Paramount Pictures Studios on September 7, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images North America) A former maid for Kobe and Vanessa Bryant is suing the couple, claiming she was regularly verbally abused and berated, owed back wages and wrongfully fired. In a lawsuit filed in the Superior Court of Orange County recently, housekeeper Maria Jimenez makes some serious allegations. The most extreme claim is that Kobe's wife demanded Jimenez reach into a bag of dog feces to retrieve the price tag for a blouse ... Read Full Story

Vanessa Bryant has always been one of my favorite athletes’ wives. Kobe did an excellent job when he plucked young Vanessa from high school and promptly married her. I wrote about their somewhat rocky relationship a few weeks ago. Here’s Robert Littal’s take on Vanessa from BlackSportsOnline : What people don’t understand is attraction comes in many forms. Of course there is physical attraction which is important, but at a certain point that is just one element. Vanessa isn’t the finest woman I have ever seen. I heard she is a bit crazy and what not, but the attraction for me is how she ... Read Full Story

Kobe Bryant 's former housekeeper has slapped Bryant and his wife with a major lawsuit! But the Bryants have filed legal papers calling their former employee out! Maria Jimenez has filed a suit against her former employers stating Kobe's wife Vanessa was "incredibly abusive and disrespectful" to her, constantly screaming at Jiminez and even making her "put her hand in a bag of dog feces to retrieve a tag from her blouse." Ick! In legal docs filed with the court, Bryant says Jimenez's allegations are completely false - they paid their former housekeeper $50k a year, "lavished her with gifts" and gave her paid ... Read Full Story