Vanessa Bryant‘s soured relationship with her mother, Sofia Laine has turned legal. According to court documents filed on Tuesday, December 16, in California and obtained by HollywoodLife, Laine, 68, is suing her daughter, 38, for financial support, claiming she was unpaid as a “longtime personal assistant and nanny” for the Bryant family.
In the 48-page lawsuit, Laine alleges that — before his January 26 death in a tragic helicopter crash at age 41 — Kobe Bryant had “promised to take care of” his mother-in-law “for the rest of her life.” Vanessa has since responded to her mother’s lawsuit, telling HollywoodLife in a lengthy statement, via her representative, on December 17, “This lawsuit is frivolous, disgraceful, and unimaginably hurtful.
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