A California judge extended a restraining order against a man allegedly stalking Kobe Bryant‘s eldest daughter Natalia Bryant.
The restraining order is extended for another 5 years.
Natalia, 22, told the court that Dwayne Kemp, 35, first contacted her in 2020 when she was just 17 and began messaging her on social media “as if they had a romantic relationship.”
The lawsuit also claimed that Kemp, a gun enthusiast, hoped to have a “Kobe-like child together” with Natalia.
“Thankful for him birthing you. Hopefully we can birth him ‘Kobe,'” kemp wrote in one message to Kobe Bryant’s eldest daughter.
In December 2022, Natalia told the court she feared for her life after Kemp visited her sorority at the University of Southern California, where she was a student at the time. He brought edible arrangements and flowers for her.
Kemp admitted that he was romantically interested in Natalia Bryant after she turned 19, but he claimed the stalking was a “misunderstanding.”
He claimed Natalia would have blocked him on social media if she was not interested in him.
“It’s totally a misunderstanding. I give flowers to females all the time, and it works. If I would’ve been blocked, I would’ve known right then and there that she wasn’t interested,” he told the court.
In 2022, the court concluded that Kemp was stalking Natalia and ordered him to stay 200 yards away from her for three years. He was also ordered to surrender his guns to law enforcement.
In 2025, Natalia told the court that Kemp violated his restraining order by attempting to visit her on August 24, 2025. According to her recent court filing, Kemp violated the restraining order when he attended an event “organized by Ms. Bryant and her employer to make contact with Ms. Bryant.”
“Kemp brought flowers that he intended to give directly to Ms. Bryant, but when he could not locate her, he instead attempted to deliver the flowers to Ms. Bryant’s mother, Vanessa Bryant, with the intention that those flowers be delivered to Ms. Bryant,” the court filing continued.
Security stopped Kemp at the event, and he allegedly “admitted his conduct would violate the [restraining order], but Kemp stated that his conduct was now permissible because he believed (mistakenly) that the order had expired.”
The court filing added that the incident “demonstrates his continued fixation and complete disregard” for the restraining order.
TMZ reports the restraining order was extended for 5 years and expanded to cover Natalia’s mother, Vanessa, and her siblings, Bianka and Capri.
