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Vanessa Bryant Puts Her Mom on Blast for Extortion in Viral Instagram Post On 12/17/20 at 4:27 PM EST According to court documents acquired by People, Bryant is being sued by her mother, Sofia Laine, who is alleging that she worked as an assistant and nanny to the Bryant family without any pay, adding that Kobe "promised to take care of" her for the rest of her life. In a statement published on her Instagram Story, Bryant called the suit "frivolous, disgraceful and unimaginably hurtful." "My mother is continuing to try and find ways to extort a financial windfall from my family," Bryant, mot...

Vanessa Bryant responds to her mother’s ‘hurtful’ $5M lawsuit Kobe Bryant's wife is now dealing with a legal challenge from her mother, Sofia Laine, who is seeking money she says she was promised This week, Sofia Laine. Vanessa’s relationship with her mother has long been strained, but now the grieving widow is being hit with the allegations that her late husband, Kobe Bryant, “promised to take care of [Sofia] for the rest of her life,” before he passed away. Lane, 68, claims that Vanessa, 38, has not honored that vow after he and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna tragically died ...

In September, Vanessa Bryant’s mother Sofia Laine gave an interview on talk show El Gordo y La Flaca accusing her daughter of having kicked her out of her home and taken away her car after the death of late husband Kobe Bryant. Vanessa Bryant dismissed her mom’s claims at the time, clarifying that she and Kobe had been supporting her mother for years, and that her mother’s allegations were baseless. Now, Laine has filed a lawsuit against her daughter for financial support, alleging years of unpaid work as a nanny and assistant for the Bryant family. In response, Vanessa is setting the...

“My mother is continuing to try and find ways to extort a financial windfall from our family. I have supported her for nearly twenty years, and she was never my or Kobe‘s personal assistant, nor was she a nanny. I have always been a stay-at-home mother and my husband and I were our daughter’s full-time care givers. For nearly two decades, we arranged for my mother to live in our nearby properties, at no cost to her because she had claimed that she didn’t have any money to buy her own home after her divorce,” she wrote.

Sofia Laine only filed a lawsuit against her to “extort a financial windfall from our family.” Laine sued Vanessa earlier this week — claiming  Kobe Bryant had promised to take care of her for the rest of her life … but after Kobe died in January, Vanessa left her out in the cold. In her suit, Laine claims she worked as a nanny for Kobe and Vanessa — and was “forced” to work around the clock for 18 years without proper meal or rest breaks. Laine claims she was never paid for her work despite taking shifts on holidays and weekends. She also claims Vanessa ordered her to move o...