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Nov. 16, 2021, 3:57 PM UTC

Kobe Bryant Widow Therapy Records Fair Game in Crash Photo Suit

Peter Hayes
Peter Hayes
Reporter

Kobe Bryant’s widow and her therapist must produce documents related to her treatment going back five years in her lawsuit against Los Angeles County seeking damages for emotional distress stemming from sheriff’s deputies taking photographs of the helicopter crash site where her husband and daughter were killed.

Vanessa Bryant “has waived her psychotherapist-patient privilege by placing into controversy the reportedly extraordinary, continuing emotional distress allegedly resulting from defendants’ photograph-related actions or inactions,” Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled Monday.

The records are relevant because “the only basis for any ...

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