Kobe Bryant’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Vanessa, is a chip off the old block, according to her ex-stepfather who is spilling her tea to the media.
Celebrity blog TMZ.com spoke with Vanessa’s ex-stepfather, Stephen Laine, an inventory manager for a food company who was married to Vanessa’s mother from 1990 to 2003. Laine helped raise Vanessa from a child to a teen — she met Kobe when she was barely 17.
Laine tells TMZ.com: “Her mother taught her well to wait for the ten-year mark [before divorcing].”
He explains, “In California, it’s considered a long term marriage and then she gets paid for life or until she remarries — just like her mother is doing to me.”
Laine gripes about paying Vanessa’s mom $1,800 in spousal support every month “and clearly they don’t need it.” He said Vanessa’s mom lives like a true baller, free and clear, in one of Kobe’s mansions, courtesy of Vanessa.
“I have a six-year-old daughter and that money could be used toward her college fund or something,” says Laine. “You’d think she’d care. But no, she’s spiteful.”
Bryant, meanwhile, is being hotly pursued by every shameless gold digger on the west coast, including actress Sanaa Lathan. The 5-time NBA champ, who is nearing the end of a brilliant NBA career, will no doubt fall victim to another LSLH gold digger who will eventually clean out his bank accounts and leave him a lonely, broken man in his 40s.
