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Jury awards $31m damages over Kobe Bryant crash photos

Vanessa Bryant (left) was awarded $16 million in damages because LA County employees snapped and shared gruesome pictures of the helicopter crash that killed her NBA-star husband Kobe.

LOS ANGELES: Los Angeles County must pay $31 million in damages to Kobe Bryant’s widow and a co-plaintiff over graphic photos taken at the site of the helicopter crash that killed the basketball star and eight others, a jury ordered Wednesday.

Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters who rushed to the scene of the January 2020 crash snapped pictures of the carnage, including the mangled remains of the Los Angeles Lakers legend and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.

A trial in Los Angeles heard how some of these first responders showed the photographs to…

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