CATFIGHT! KOBE’S WIFE VS LAURA LANE OF ESPN THE MAGAZINE

VANESSA BRYANT

Last week the website www.thedirty.com alleged that Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was having an affair with this hottie:

 

FORMER LAKER GIRL VANESSA CURRY

That’s a huge leap for the scandal-mongering website which previously had limited itself to posting humiliating photos of athletes drinking and partying. By writing about an affair as a FACT when it has no photographic evidence or confirmation from either party, The Dirty is opening itself up to huge liability. So far the mainstream media won’t touch the Bryant Affair story. Even the blogs have left the story alone for the most part. The story has been radioactive.

Bryant even went to court this weekend to get a cease and desist against The Dirty according to TMZ.com:

It is in this climate that the following incident occured between Bryant’s wife Vanessa and Laura Lane of ESPN The Magazine.

On her blog, Lane gives her version of what happened:

 

So as I’m walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews with the players, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting outside the locker room as usual with her two girls.

“Laura!” she screams (yes, she apparently knows my name). “F- you! You f-ing bitch!”

“Excuse me?” I say, completely baffled as I look around me to see if there is someone else named Laura. No, there’s not.

Her daughters – ages 5 and 2 – are sitting next to her on the bench looking at their mom as she screams.

“F- you! How dare you write about me and my daughters and their schedule! You didn’t say you were writing an article! F- you! You f-ing bitch. You have no journalism ethics! F- you! You bitch – ”

 

 

 

Vanessa Bryant was apparently angry over a blurb Lane wrote about her in ESPN The Magazine. The article featured this captioned photo:

Vanessa, with the amount of dime your husband makes, are you really wearing a purple tutu?

(Ok, kinda catty but it certainly doesn’t warrant Mrs. Bryant’s tirade on Lane.)

Lane also posted the content of her entire article (originally here) on her blog. Here’s the part of the article that supposedly offended Vanessa Bryant:

 

Kobe’s wife, Vanessa, has opted to make her own fashion statement. Vanessa, who is usually prim and proper in all black has decided to have fun tonight with her outfit. She’s wearing a white tube dress, a purple tutu, black leggings, high heeled short boots and a rhinestone incrusted white leather jacket with the number 8 on the back, Kobe’s old number. Bryant’s daughters, Natalia and Gianna both have shirts that say “Got MVP?”

“When he changed his number I didn’t have anything with a 24 on it so I had them make this dress,” Vanessa says. “I don’t know how to sew that well so I just told them what to do.”

The girls, however, prefer their soccer uniform over ballerina tutus.

“I have stuff like this for them but they don’t want to wear it,” Vanessa says. “She’s like, ‘I don’t want to wear it. It itches.’” Bryant’s kids have recently started playing soccer in addition to gymnastics, ballet and hip-hop.

“I’m like a total soccer mom,” Vanessa says.

That’s it?!?

It’s hard to believe you can get called a “F*&#ing Bitch” for calling somebody a “soccer mom” and making fun of their purple tutu.

WELL, NOW IT GETS INTERESTING.

You’ll notice that nowhere in the article does Lane refer to Kobe’s alleged affair. Apparently after being called a “f-ing bitch” Lane has taken the gloves off.

First Lane quotes other reporters about the state of Vanessa Bryant’s mental health,

 

“She’s insane. Everyone knows it.”

Then Lane pulls out the nuclear option. The affair.

 

Perhaps she’s angry at the world because there were rumors today that came out that Kobe Bryant slept with a Lakers cheerleader – a hotter version of his wife who is also named Vanessa – and she got fired.

First, it’s spectacular that Lane refers to Vanessa Curry as “a hotter version of his wife,” but then she pulls out this:

 

While I am completely against cheating, can you honestly blame Kobe if he didn’t want to sleep with that???

Lane concludes,

 

Considering there are a lot of rumors going around, I’m sure she’s upset. So she took it out on me and now I have an awesome story.

About three different reporters at the game and one of my editors told me I should write about her cussing me out. That’s the beauty of journalism. You don’t fight, you write.

 

 

So what had previously been an untouchable rumor (Kobe’s possible affair) is now in the mainstream public domain. More importantly ESPN is now letting its reporters cover the topic. All because Vanessa Bryant called some reporter a “f-ing bitch.”

PISSED OFF BASKETBALL WRITER LAURA LANE

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