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Updated: 18 Dec 2020, 8:27
VANESSA Bryant has accused her mother of filing a lawsuit against her in a bid to extort a financial windfall from our family .
Sofia Laine sued her daughter Vanessa earlier this week, claiming NBA star Kobe Bryant had promised to take care of her for the rest of her life but that Vanessa would not allow that to happen following his death in January.
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Sofia Laine pictured with her daughter Vanessa BryantCredit: Instagram
Vanessa and Kobe had been married for nearly two decades at the time of his tragic death in a helicopter crash. Kobe, 41, and his daughter Gianna Bryant, 13, died in the accident along with seven other people in Calabasas, California.
Vanessa Bryant accuses her mother of trying to extort $5M from the family after Kobe s death by filing a lawsuit claiming the star athlete promised to take care of her
Earlier in the week, Sofia Laine claimed in a suit that she was promised by late star that he would take care of her for the rest of her life
Vanessa Bryant took to her Instagram story Thursday to defend both her and Kobe s treatment of her mother over the past two decades My mother is continuing to find ways to extort a financial windfall from our family, she said in the post