Kobe Bryant’s Wife Vanessa Files For Divorce, Citing Irreconcilable Differences

After 10 years of marriage and multiple incidence of alleged adultery on Kobe Bryant’s part, Bryant’s wife, Vanessa Laine Bryant, has finally filed for divorce from the LA Lakers great, citing “Irreconcilable Differences.” Married when Vanessa Laine Bryant was only 18, Vanessa’s marriage to Kobe Bryant was frought with some controversy from the start, when Kobe’s parents boycotted the young couples’ wedding, because they were young, and reportedly because Vanessa Laine Bryant was not African American (Kobe Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is half Irish and half Mexican).

In 2003 Kobe Bryant was charged with the rape of a Colorado hotel employee, which he vehemently denied, though he did admit to adultery. At the time, Kobe’s wife Vanessa stood by her seemingly repentant husband at a famous 2003 press conference. Vanessa also put out a public statement on the incident, stating, “I know that my husband has made a mistake, the mistake of adultery. He and I will have to deal with that within our marriage, and we will do so.”

At the time, a desperate Kobe Bryant infamously bought his wife a $4 million ring, and many cynics wondered what Vanessa Bryant’s true intentions were in remaining in the marriage. It is documented that in 2000, when Vanessa’s parents filed for bankruptcy, Kobe Bryant gifted Vanessa’s parents with $500,000 to get the couple back on their feet, financially.

During the couple’s ten year marriage, they had two daughters, Natalia Diamante Bryant, who was born the same year that Kobe’s rape charge surfaced, and Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, born in 2006. But with rumors of infidelity swirling around Kobe Bryant for years, at some point enough was enough for his wife, Vanessa.

According to a TMZ investigation, “[Kobe Bryant] cheated multiple times with multiple partners on his wife of more than a decade, events that led to Vanessa Bryant’s surprise divorce filing in an Orange County, Calif. court Friday, [December 16, 2011].”

According to the same TMZ story, Kobe’s wife Vanessa was aware of multiple affairs over the years with multiple women, but it was Kobe Bryant’s most recent sexual indescretion that finally pushed Kobe’s wife Vanessa to file for divorce. According to multiple reports, Vanessa is still very much in love with Kobe Bryant, but, “can’t stand his infidelities anymore.” Apparentely she hung in there for years and tried to turn a blind eye, as Kobe Bryant did as he pleased.

Kobe and Vanessa Bryant do not have a prenuptial agreemment, and in light of Kobe Bryant’s multiple infidelities, Vanessa Laine Bryant is likely to get half of Kobe’s financial empire, and this story will grow legs as we can assume women will begin to come out of the woodwork to make their status as Kobe Bryant’s other women, known.

The Bryant’s joint plea for “privacy” will not be granted by the media anytime soon.