TMZ has been covering photos of Kobe Bryant partying it up with the ladies in Barcelona prior to his Olympics gig as part of the USA basketball team. (The next match, USA vs. Tunisia, happens tonight at 5:15 EST. No offense to Tunisia, but I expect Kobe & co. to win. They beat the French team on Sunday, which had 6 NBA players.) TMZ has a photo of Kobe looking cozy with one woman, and another in which he’s shirtless and sitting on a window ledge with two other women. TMZ claims Kobe is shirtless because someone spilled a full drink on his shirt and he just had to take it off, yeah right.
Anyway I didn’t see the big deal with those photos, because I honestly forgot that Kobe had reunited with his wife Vanessa, after she filed for divorce and got half his considerable assets including all his houses. Vanessa decided to withdraw divorce papers after Kobe launched a forgiveness plea that included expensive jewelry, as is typical for him. Well Vanessa is said to be pissed off at Kobe over these photos, and not because he was hanging out shirtless with young women, but because someone took his picture doing it. Isn’t this the exact relationship dynamic that everyone said they had? Vanessa doesn’t mind if Kobe doesn’t keep it in his pants, as long as no one hears about it. Here’s more, thanks to TMZ:
Kobe Bryant’s wife has some serious questions about his judgment after seeing pics of him partying with women last week — but that didn’t stop her from flying to London to watch him play in the Olympics.
Sources close to Vanessa Bryant tell us she is “furious” and “embarrassed” over the photos — one of Kobe chatting up 2 women at an afterparty last week in Barcelona … the other showed him hanging with 2 different women in a nightclub.
But we’re told Vanessa’s anger is NOT because she thinks Kobe cheated … instead she’s mad that he put himself in situations where the photos could be taken.
As we previously reported … a source close to Kobe says someone had spilled a drink on him, and he was only briefly shirtless — while he sent for a cleaner, dryer shirt.
We’re told Vanessa had planned to go to London — and seeing the pics didn’t change her mind. She flew to London over the weekend with their 2 daughters.
We’re told Vanessa feels things have been going well with Kobe since she passed on filing final divorce docs last month.
[From TMZ]
So Kobe was partying with his teammates and there just happened to be a lot of hot young women around, and none of his teammates in sight. He just happened to be photographed giving one woman an “autograph.” He just happened to get a drink spilled on his shirt, leaving him no other option than to hang around shirtless. It’s just part of his job, right? Does Vanessa buy this, or does she buy it in exchange for a lot of very expensive, shiny things?
Vanessa was recently spotted in London, where she’s arrived to watch her husband compete. She of course also went shopping for designer goods.
Vanessa is shown with her daughters on 6-18-12 and 7-12-12. She’s shown with Kobe on 9-7-11 and 2-19-11. Credit: WENN.com
They’re both gross & deserve each other. Cute kids though
Vanessa,your jeweler called, your remorseful ruby and embarrassing emerald is ready for pick up
@ corny: That sums this up perfectly!
For some reason I thought they divorced ages ago.I don’t know how she can stay with this man. She could have easily taken half and went off to marry someone else better, she is still young and pretty. I know it’s hard to get divorced from someone you have been with for a long time but it’s even harder to live with someone who cheats and humiliates you all the time publicly.But she doesn’t seem to mind, maybe the have an open marriage?
i also thought they were divorced
if all she wants is that he’s low-key,i’m ok with that:it’s her life and at least she’s honest and she doesn’t whine
It is pretty sad that she and Kobe are setting such awful examples for their children. No self respect. One is in it for the money and the other has the self control of a two year old.
Exactly – what price dignity and self-respect?
She could have pretty much any man and chooses to risk an STD whilst teaching her daughters that this is acceptable behaviour? Someone smack her on the head with a rolled-up newspaper!
Well you know what, at least she is honest about her “relationship “. If she doesn’t care if he sleeps with other women as long as it isn’t public its her business. Now how she’s going to explain this dynamic to her daughters one day is another thing. Maybe she’ll just teach them if you’re mad or embarrassed or married to an accused rapist who at the very least had unprotected sex with a woman he barely knew then took the chance of bringing some sexually transmitted disease home, just make sure you get something really expensive after the fact. Then everythings all good.
Those two girls are so cute too bad they are growing up learning wrong lessons from their parents about a marriage. Look the other way when Daddy cheats and go shopping.
Maybe they have an open marriage and as long as he not photograph with another woman which could get back to thier daughter, she find with it because she getting her on little somthing on the side as well.
To some extent, it must be about more than just money. She could have been MORE than set for life had she gone ahead and divorced him. I think she would have had plenty of money for pretty, shiny things, at least that was my understanding?
It’s been said that she loves the attention from being Kobe’s wife. She couldn’t handle the thought of another woman ever taking her spot.
Dude got married too young. That AND being a Pro Baller- does not make for a great husband. Maybe they have an open marriage?
Also, Kobe married him a Class A, Professional GOLD DIGGER
While I do believe he loves her, I heard that he allegedly got pressured to marry her when he was young because when they started messing she was under aged. So her family told him to either marry her or he was screwed.
Mimi – Wasn’t Vanessa only 17 when they got married? I seem to remember reading that somewhere. (I also have a dear friend whose sister was married to a Laker, and none of the wives cared for Vanessa. They said she was a stone-cold bitch. And coming from some of these women, that’s saying a lot!)
I think Jerry Hall had the same arrangement with Mick Jagger. Do what you want on your own time, just don’t embarrass me. Well, that turned out great, huh?
The gene simmons-Shannon tweed arrangement. I dunno, I think she stays for a bigger cut and I think she’s shopping a show. Also, I wonder if no pics is for their girls more than her.
At the very least I can say she has come a long way in the looks department. Where plastic surgery can make one look ratchet, she looks good. I mean it was just some years ago a photo of her was circulating with ginsu knives for nails and her hair was bleached to a color not found in nature…
For what it’s worth, TMZ (or someone else) said that the two chicks he was hanging out with the other night were both married and their husbands were also there as part of the party group.
Whatever works for them – let it work.
I think most of these marriages that are in the spotlight are this way. I think most people know that the temptation is great and they deal with it with the idea that if it happens it happens, just don’t let me know about it or don’t let the public find out either.
NOW she’s questioning Kobe’s judgement?!? Seems to me she should’ve been questioning it pretty much all along.
If she doesn’t mind him catting around, the least he could do is not let it be memorialised in pix.
Other than that, it sounds like they’ve come to a mutual agreement. For now, at least.
I hope Jessica Biel worked out a pre-nup that will give her “considerable assets”, b/c this is basically her future life and if she doesn’t have any bargaining chips like Vanessa does, it’s going to be a miserable one.
I honestly believe this woman has no self-respect. Money is not going to buy her happiness and if it is then she is a very shallow person and she is sending the wrong message to her children. She is NOT a strong woman because I believe a strong woman would not put up with the bs.
I think they are perfect for each other.
I actually really like Kobe.
I think she love being Mrs. Kobe Bryant at any price. I mean how much jewelry can you have after a while. It’s her choice, but for me it’s the risk of an STD that would scare the hell out of me.
Maybe she has him tested and if the test come back clean then she has sex with him, that’s the only way I can see her protecting herself from getting a STD.
MEH!
Funny story about how I graduated college with the two girls sitting with him on the window ledge…I was just reading on facebook about their trip to barcelona. Small world.
Bitch please. He’s a cheater. Of course he’s going to get papped. No one has ANY sympathy for her at all. EVER.
She just wants to be in the spotlight. If they divorce she’ll just be a hasbeen ex wife. She could get on the Basketball Wives show. There’s a couple of exes on their and they’re all money hungry, trashy divas so she’d fit in.