Kobe Bryant’s Widow Sues Police for Sharing Husband’s Corpse Photos

The widow of Kobe Bryant, a former basketball player killed in 2020 in a helicopter crash, said she saw a photo of her husband’s body shortly after the tragedy. Vanessa Bryant is suing Los Angeles police, whose members reportedly shot the footage at the crash site, according to TMZ.

In court documents obtained by the tabloid, Vanessa claims to have asked the Los Angeles County Sheriff to surround the area of ​​the crash and not allow photos to be taken of the bodies and rubble. She would have said, “If you can’t bring my husband and baby back, please make sure no one takes pictures of them.”

Kobe and her 13-year-old daughter Gianna were with seven other people in the commercial helicopter that crashed outside the city of Calabasas on January 26, 2020. A month after the deaths, Vanessa Bryant reportedly discovered that police and firefighters were sharing photos taken from the corpses of her husband and daughter.

In the documents obtained by the American website, she says: “Since I saw the photo [do corpo de Kobe], I was tormented thinking about who took it. It’s infuriating that the people I trusted to protect the dignity of my husband and daughter abused their positions to obtain reminders of their deaths, as if having pictures of their remains made them special.”

“It makes me sick to think that police and firefighters have looked at pictures of my husband and daughter’s bodies for no reason,” he continues. She claims to have evidence that at least 20 people had access to the images.

Vanessa also says she is constantly afraid that the photos will appear in the media and that “trolls” are stalking her, claiming to have possession of the images and threatening to publicize them. “For the rest of my life, one of these things will happen: graphic photos of the bodies of my husband and daughter will go viral on the internet, or I will go on living in fear of that happening.”