Vanessa Bryant calls Evan Rachel Wood 'vile and disturbing' for calling her husband Kobe a 'rapist' just hours after he died Wood, 33, had tweeted: 'What has happened is tragic. I am heartbroken for Kobe's family. He was a sports hero. He was also a rapist' Vanessa Bryant, 38, took to her Instagram Stories to respond to the Westworld actress more than a year after her tweet Bryant said: 'Behavior like this is part of the reason why innocent black men go to jail for crimes they didn't commit. An accusation doesn't make someone guilty' A 19-year-old employee of a hotel in Colorado accused Kobe of sexual assault in 2003 but the charges were dropped when she declined to testify