Vanessa Bryant has settled a lawsuit filed against her by her mother, Sofia Urbieta Laine. Terms of the settlement are not released. Laine filed a notice of unconditional settlement Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court, indicating that a request for dismissal would be filed within 45 days.
The family feud started after Sofia Urbieta Laine sued her 38-year-old daughter for financial support, alleging that she worked for years as an unpaid personal assistant and nanny to the couple and that Kobe had promised to take care of her but Vanessa void all his promises, alleges the 48-page lawsuit.
Vanessa in her statement wrote that her 68-year-old mother is trying to extort a financial windfall from our family in the wake of her husband Kobe Bryant's death. She and her husband of 20 years had supported her mother financially, allowing her to live in one of their properties near their Newport Coast home free of charge. She now wants to back charge me $96 per hour for supposedly working 12 hours a day for 18 years for watching her grandchildren. In reality, she only occasionally babysat my older girls when they were toddlers. She was a stay-at-home mom.
Earlier this year, I was looking for a new home for her and, a week later, she went on television and gave an interview disparaging our family and making false accusations while living rent-free in a gated apartment complex in Newport Coast,” she said.
In that interview with Univision, Sofia Laine alleged she was forced out of her home by her daughter and was made to return a luxury car. “She told me, ‘I need you to get out of the house,’” Laine said on “El Gordo y la Flaca.” Bryant said the interview was “beyond hurtful.”
“Even after that betrayal, I was willing to provide my mother with monthly support for the rest of her life, and that wasn’t good enough. She, instead, contacted me through intermediaries — contrary to what she claims, my phone number hasn’t changed — and demanded $5 million, a house and a Mercedes SUV.”
Vanessa Bryant inherited control of an estate valued at as much as $600 million after Kobe Bryant’s death, according to financial experts.
She said she won’t give into the “false and absurd claims” and demands.“She has no regard for how this is affecting my children and me. She wants to live off her for the rest of her life while still collecting alimony from a 2004 divorce. My husband and I have never discouraged or kept her from providing for herself. My husband never promised my mother anything, and he would be so disappointed in her behavior and lack of empathy,” she said in her statement.
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