Kobe Bryant’s Family Awarded $29 Million in Invasion of Privacy Lawsuit

Flowers and pictures are seen as fans gather for a memorial to late Kobe Bryant, who perished alongside his daughter and seven others when their helicopter crashed into a hillside near Los Angeles, outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Jan. 26, 2021. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Los Angeles County will pay late Kobe Bryant’s wife nearly $29 million in a settlement of a lawsuit over the inappropriate sharing of gruesome photographs of the crash that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter.

Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office and firefighters were accused in the lawsuit of sharing close-up gruesome pictures of the crash in unofficial settings, including in a bar.