Vanessa

Vanessa Bryant is an American charity worker who is also popularly known as the wife of NBA player Kobe Bryant. Vanessa Bryant has a net worth of $600 million. In 2007, the couple created their own foundation that provides scholarships to minority college students across the world. As well as other projects, Bryant leads the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foundation and is the president and CEO of Granity Studios.Kobe and Vanessa became acquainted while she was dancing as a background dancer on an music video. She was 17 years old. Kobe, who was 21 at the time, was at the studio working on his first musical album. Within six months of their first meeting the couple were married. Laine was still in high school at the time they got married. Kobe's parents and agent, as well as his sisters, chose not to be present at the wedding due to their inability to support the wedding. They were married on April 18, 2001, in Dana Point, California at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church. As a result, Kobe didn't speak to his parents for two years. The ice broke after Vanessa welcomed their first child in 2003.