About Vanessa Bryant
Vanessa Marie Bryant (born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo; May 5, 1982) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She was married to American professional basketball player Kobe Bryant. In 2007, she and her husband founded the Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Foundation to provide scholarships to minority college students worldwide. She also leads the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation, which supports underserved child athletes. In 2023, Bryant settled a lawsuit against Los Angeles County related to the January 26, 2020, helicopter crash that killed her husband and daughter Gianna. == Early life == Bryant was born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo on May 5, 1982, in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican immigrant Sofia Urbieta. After her parents divorced when she was three, her father abandoned them and moved to Mexico; she is estranged from her father. Her mother was a shipping clerk at an electronics company who married her coworker Stephen Laine in 1990. Bryant began using Laine's surname instead of her birth father’s, Cornejo, and officially changed her name to Vanessa Marie Laine in 2000, despite never officially being adopted by her step-father. She has an older sister, Sophie.
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