Vanessa Bryant

Vanessa Marie Bryant previously Laine born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo is an American businesswoman philanthropist and model She is the window of professional basketball player Kobe Bryant In November 1999 17yearold Bryant was working as a background dancer for Tha Eastsidaz rap music video Gd Up when she met Kobe Bryant who was on set working on a rap album Six months after meeting the couple were engaged They married on April 18 2001 They had four children Natalia Diamante born January 2003 Gianna Gigi MariaOnore May 1 2006 January 26 2020 Bianka Bella born December 2016 and Capri Kobe born June 2019 In 2007 she and her husband founded the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation to provide scholarships to minority college students worldwide She also leads the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation which supports underserved child athletes In December 2011 Vanessa filed for divorce from Kobe citing irreconcilable differences and sparked speculation about the possible distribution of assets in a divorce Thirteen months later they called off the divorce On January 26 2020 Bryants husband Kobe and their daughter Gianna died in the Calabasas helicopter crashShe filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County which was settled in 2023 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia