Vanessa Bryant is Kobe Bryant’s wife. Vanessa met Kobe in 1999 when she was just seventeen and he was twenty. They were married in 2001.
In 2003, Kobe bought his wife a $4.3 million 8 carat purple diamond ring to say he was sorry for sleeping with a 19-year-old hotel worker — and the rape charges that came with it.
The charges were later dropped, and Kobe’s wife stuck with him through the whole thing.
(8.50 out of 10)