Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa are being sued by their former maid, Maria Jimenez, for wrongful discharge, invasion of privacy, emotional distress, and unpaid wages. She claims that Vanessa was an insufferable boss (probably not the b-word she wanted to use), calling her names and accusing her of stealing a mouth retainer. Vanessa also blew up when Maria put her expensive blouse in the washer. She made Maria pay off the $690 blouse out of her own paycheck and forced her to stick her hand in a bag of dog excrement to retrieve the price tag. To make it worse, Vanessa yelled at Maria in front of her children (great example for the kiddies). Maria tried to quit, but Kobe convinced her to stay.
Kobe Bryant and his wife Vanessa are being sued by their former housekeeper, who claims Vanessa was incredibly abusive — even demanding that she put her hand in a bag of dog feces to retrieve a tag from her blouse…so Vanessa could deduct the cost of the blouse from the maid’s salary!
Maria Jimenez claims Vanessa called her “lazy, slow, dumb, a f—ing liar, and f—ing sh-t.”
In the lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Orange County, Jimenez claims Vanessa accused her of stealing her (mouth) retainer.
Jimenez says it got so bad — Vanessa allegedly “badgered, harassed and humiliated Maria by yelling and screaming at Maria and criticizing her in front of Kobe, the Bryants’ children, employees and other people in the household” — she threatened to quit but Kobe talked her out of it.
The final straw: When Vanessa went nuclear because Maria put an expensive blouse in the washer. Vanessa demanded that Maria put her hand in a bag of dog feces to retrieve the price tag for the blouse.
Maria says she wanted to quit and Vanessa responded that she “had to work until payday to pay for the $690 blouse, which she did.”
[From TMZ]
Really, treating anyone with such disrespect is unacceptable, but to yell at her in front of the children is even worse. What is Vanessa teaching them? That she wants them to grow up to be entitled brats too?
Somehow this really doesn’t surprise me. When Kobe’s sex scandal broke, Vanessa stayed by his side, but with a new addition to her jewelry collection: a $4 million eight-carat diamond ring. Does this scream “demanding goldigger” to anyone else? With Kobe’s history of covering up transgressions with expensive items, I’m betting this whole thing will go away with a substantial settlement.
Here’s Kobe and Vanessa at the ESPY awards in 2006. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .
Did Vanessa put the tag in the bag of dog shit? Thats pretty bizarre, she went to the trouble of gathering the poop…or maybe the maid had to gather it?
Are there any pictures out there of Vanessa NOT looking like a first-class bitch?
Is there a reason this woman wasn’t slapped senseless. This is the worst thing I have ever heard.
This is why I wish I could just nuke an awards show if only to rub these disgusting people off this planet.
you just know it’s true. what a turd. she looks alot like kim kardashian.
B*** please if he dropped your dumb ass, you would be broke and working as a maid yourself.. so get over yourself.. wierd creepy person.. ick
I can’t stand folks that came from nothing but since they have married a little money, want to get brand new. Did this broad even graduate from high school? If it wasn’t for Kobe, Vanessa and Miss Jimenez would probably be co-workers.
And she needs more than retainer to fix those jacked up teeth.
low class people wilh lots and lots of $$$
poor maid I hope she wins her suit
If I remember his wife has been the object of contempt since the start of their dating. That is a long time to be hated. I wonder if she comes off b*tchy as a defense mechanism.
She got the b*tch face down pat in this picture though.
She’s a disgusting trashy bitch, and he’s a rapist. They go perfectly together.
She needs to remember that she has done NOTHING to earn the extravagant lifestyle she now enjoys. If she hadn’t latched onto Kobe in the early days, J-Lin’s prediction would probably be true!
I think it is illegal to make the maid pay for a mistake when she was doing her job. I hope that Maria takes them to the cleaners and humilates that Vanessa bitch in open court.
Yea…having been friends with quite a number of people who were friends with her in HS, I am inclined to believe the maid 100%. Even in HS, this girl was a class act.
And, before she met Bryant, she was kinda referred to as the “HS bicycle”.
Such an upstart. And every time she goes to South Coast Plaza, bitch has the place shut down. PLEASE. I just wanna shop, not see YOU, don’t trip.
BTW. She’s the object of contempt because she’s not a nice person.
She sounds like a piece of work. Kinda hoping maid doesn’t settle and takes a public trial so we can have a laugh at Mrs Bryant and the million (minimum) she has to pay up.
I will never understand the way humans can treat each other. I don’t think I could handle having someone clean up after me anyway. I can do it myself. I can’t even get a pedicure because the thought of having another human kneel “before” me at my feet is just too much for me to handle. That woman cleans Vanessa’s filth. The least that wicked lady could do is treat her with dignity.
You could not pay me enough to work for that psycho and her straying husband.
She will forever be a bitter, hateful woman because she knows deep down she’s not worth shit without Kobe’s money.
And that’s about all he can give her aside from a possible STD.
Ok, Vanessa definitely sounds like a bitch, but the maid did kind of ruin her $700 shirt…I’d yell at a maid, too, if she wasn’t well trained enough to not put a $700 shirt in the washer. And make her get a the tag out of the trash. Btw, I’m guessing the tag wasn’t just in a bag of poop, I’m sure it was in the trash where there was also poop. The maid is milking it for all she’s worth. Don’t screw up if you don’t want to get yelled at. She’s an adult, she should take responsibility for her actions.
Bar…In a professional world (Ive worked in corporate offices for years) you DON’T scream at people EVER. You never force someone to shove their hand in trash. And you certainly don’t garnish their wages for an item broken (people drop their company pagers in the toilet or on the sidewalk) all the time). Maids don’t fall under being allowed to be treated professionally? Where do you work where all that screaming is going on?
Don’t screw up if you don’t want to get yelled at. She’s an adult, she should take responsibility for her actions.
UM,Bar,you need therapy.
Seriously,there’s taking responsibility for one’s actions…but responsibility does not mandate being yelled at for making mistakes.
That is the most ridiculous ‘logic’ i’ve ever heard. She is not required to take responsibility for Vanessa’s abusive actions.
Talk about blaming the victim…
Are you a troll or what?
Cuz I cannot believe someone would be that thick in the head as to patch together concepts as tho’ they are intelligent,such as you have.
Did you read what you wrote?
I’m guessing the blouse is just the icing on the cake,and you probably believe a wife should be beaten for burning a souffle,i’m also guessing…
To make Ms. Jimenez dig into the trash and pay from her own paycheck is just cheap and cruel considering what the Bryants are worth. ALL domestic help will make a mistake here and there . . . . . they are HUMAN.
Not that Vanessa cares, shes a god in her own coked up eyes.
fucked up couple. i wish they would go away.
So the maid doesn’t have rubber gloves to put on to go through the trash?
No sympathy there.
Being yelled at in front of the kids or anyone where I made the mistake? Fine, For one I didn’t? I guess I would be looking for another job, and she would need more dental work…
Why does Kobe beg you to stay? Are your maid skills that MAD that no one can do it better? I am sorry, but if what you are claiming is true, you should have gotten up and gotten out lots sooner.
i hope that heartless c%nt gets it returned to her times 3
soon