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10 Facts You Didn’t Know About  Vanessa Bryant

Vanessa Marie Bryant is an American philanthropist known for her marriage to basketball player Kobe Bryant. 

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Vanessa Bryant was born on  5 May 1982 (age 40 years) in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Vanessa Bryant founded the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation in 2007 to provide scholarships to minority college students worldwide.

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Vanessa Bryant is the president and chief executive officer of Granity Studios.

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In 1990, her mother married Stephen Laine, who was a middle manager at the same electronics company that she worked in.

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In November 1999, Bryant met her future husband Kobe Bryant on the set of the music video for the song "G'd Up." The high-profile relationship caused disruptions at her high school, leading Bryant to complete her senior year at home as an independent study.

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In 2020, following her husband and second-oldest daughter's deaths, Bryant changed the name of her husband's Mamba Sports Foundation to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation in honor of her daughter. 

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In early December 2016, Bryant gave birth to a third daughter, Bianka Bella, and in January 2019 the Bryants announced they were expecting a fourth daughter. Their fourth and last child, named Capri Kobe, was born in June 2019.

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On January 26, 2020, Bryant's husband and their daughter Gigi died in the Calabasas helicopter crash. 

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In August 2022, she was awarded $16 million in damages related to the photos in the trial.

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