Vanessa Bryant's (Kobe's wife) stepdad goes IN!!

[tuckdog]

http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/20/vanessa-bryant-kobe-divorce-step-dad/#.TvDZN3NW4o9

VANESSA BRYANT'S EX-STEP DAD
She's JUST LIKE
Her Gold-Digging Mom

Kobe Bryant should have known his soon-to-be ex-wife would take him to the cleaners in their divorce ... because she learned the wallet-raiding playbook from her mother ... so says Vanessa's ex-step dad.

TMZ spoke with Stephen Laine -- an inventory manager for a food company who was married to Vanessa's mother from 1990 to 2003 ... and helped raise Vanessa from a child into adulthood.

Laine tells us, "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 continues, "I have to pay her mom $1,800 every month and clearly they don’t need it."

Sources close to Vanessa tell us ... Kobe's soon-to-be ex-mother-in-law is currently living in one of the BBaller's mansions ... and we're told Vanessa is very good to her.

Laine gripes, "I have a six-year-old daughter and that money could be used toward her college fund or something ... you'd think she'd care ... but no, she's spiteful."

 

[Chiyo]

Just how them bitches will do ya.

 

[Amajorfucup]

Kobe is beyond a fucking idiot.

 

[TimRock]

no one created "The Official Kobe is Getting Divorced because he is an idiot thread"?

 

[woodchuck]

I don't blame these chicks, I blame these spineless politicians who are afraid to do something about the laws, and the idiot celebs that marry these bitches and then fuck up.

 

[vandamation]

Jelly Bean tried to tell Kobe... But he wouldn't listen... so.... OH WELL... FUCK IT... WAY TO GO, Vanessa...

 

[musicchick]

Dhustla

Laine gripes, "I have a six-year-old daughter and that money could be used toward her college fund or something ... you'd think she'd care ... but no, she's spiteful."

I'm 30 now, and I don't think I'm fit for marriage, man.

I have a problem with manipulative women, . My mother was manipulative and very distrusting, often for seemingly no reason... even of me



Tuck, what the lick read on that Ecuadorian lady @ yo gig?

 

[Djmarkxr7]

no one created "The Official Kobe is Getting Divorced because he is an idiot thread"?

I think there is but NOBODY put a gun to Kobe's head and forced him to get married WITHOUT a pre-nup!

No sympathy here.

 

[Rossini]

I think there is but NOBODY put a gun to Kobe's head and forced him to get married WITHOUT a pre-nup!

No sympathy here.

somebody said a prenup dont matter after 10 years

 

[woodchuck]

I think there is but NOBODY put a gun to Kobe's head and forced him to get married WITHOUT a pre-nup!

No sympathy here.

I heard that those are hard to enforce in Cali anyway. Community Property states eat prenups for breakfast.

 

[AwwSchitt]

California has some fucked up divorce laws.

 

[DaAssWatcher]

Niggaz need to stop marrying video hoes,strippers and nannys.

 

[Better]

I don't blame these chicks, I blame these spineless politicians who are afraid to do something about the laws, and the idiot celebs that marry these bitches and then fuck up.

The greatest irony in all of this, these laws were made by men.

 

[durham]

Damn I hate the lakers, but I despise any man having to loose so much of his wealth for laying down with some conniving as broad.

Why not get a pre up,,

And he won't even joint custody


Lebron is the smartest young athlete ever lol, if you are worth that much don't get married fuck that

 

[Hotlantan]

Stepdad has talking shit even before Kobe and Vanessa got married.
http://www.stockteam.com/hbpress17.html

Then, 15 months after her daughter's wedding — not long after Vanessa learned she was pregnant — Sofia Laine filed for divorce from Stephen Laine, ending their marriage of 12 1/2 years. In court documents, the mother said she had learned that Laine was involved with another woman. Stephen Laine, who now is 44 and lives with that woman, denies cheating and blames the breakdown on Bryant's money.

He says that as Kobe and Vanessa lavished his wife with surprise gifts — a house full of furniture, a Mercedes-Benz S-500, $120,000 in cash, payment of phone, dental and credit card bills, payoff of their mortgage — he began to fear his wife's respect for him was crumbling.

Vanessa's step-grandfather, Robert Laine, put it this way: "All of a sudden, it wasn't 'What does Steve want for dinner?' It was, 'What does Kobe want?' "

In an affidavit filed with their divorce papers, Vanessa Bryant, then 20, theorized that her stepfather was "jealous" because the gifts she had given him — clothes, a computer — were less valuable than those she gave her mother. Not so, says Stephen Laine: "It was that I became insignificant."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/news/2003/08/04/bryants_hurdles_ap/

Before they married, court documents show Vanessa's family life was already in turmoil. Her mother and stepfather filed for bankruptcy in 2000, and Vanessa and Kobe helped them out with cash and gifts worth more than $500,000, according to documents filed in the Laines' pending divorce case.

Kobe also paid off a $230,000 mortgage on his in-laws' Garden Grove house, according to the court filings, as well as phone, dental and credit card bills and two car loans.

Then in July 2002, Sofia Laine filed for divorce, claiming in court documents that husband Stephen Laine was "involved in another relationship." They had been married for 12 years.

About a month before the divorce filing, Sofia Laine, who wasn't working because of debilitating back pain, told the court she was no longer receiving cash gifts from Vanessa and Kobe.

The financial support is at issue because Stephen Laine's filings show he believes he should pay less than standard alimony.

 

[kingcam]

Dooooont do it!!!!!!!

 

[Man_Of_STeeL]

Why not get a pre nup,,

pre-nups are not bullet proof...there are many ways around them...

as some have mentioned certain states jus take your pre-nup and wipe their ass with it...

even if you think you have an iron clad pre-nup...the woman can go to court and say something to the effect of "he made me sign this agreement under duress, because he said he wouldn't marry me if i didn't sign it, and we had already announced it to our friends and family and set a date for the wedding and sent out invitations and so on and so forth....etc ..etc"

and voila .. pre-nup is thrown out...

if you are worth that much don't get married fuck that

right now..this is probably the most viable option ..for any man in america that has any kind of wealth...who amassed his fortune before meeting his significant other...

 

[Mt Airy Groove]

Jelly Bean tried to tell Kobe... But he wouldn't listen... so.... OH WELL... FUCK IT... WAY TO GO, Vanessa...

along with Phil Jackson and Jordan. they all told him DON'T DO IT

 

[woodchuck]

"You already know, Kobe."

 

[tuckdog]

Tuck, what the lick read on that Ecuadorian lady @ yo gig?

It's cool. Not trying to push the issue, was just happy for the experience. I'm going back to my normal site after today so I won't be at the same school as her anymore. We did the twitter/number exchange though so we'll see, but I'm keeping it VERY light.

 

[Naha-Nago]

Figuratively speaking...


Kobe was/is a tease that was playing with fate/karma and is now about to get fucked with a ten year dick....

All these flags...then he marries her.....THEN he continues to fuck around....THEN he forgets to ala' Tom Cruise 11th hour pull out to try to save some dough....

And he broke man code dry snitching on Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Karl Malone.

This fucking he about to recieve- in public- was ten years in the making....And she gonna do it SLOOOOOOOOOW with no towel and no kiss.

*two cents*

 

[ballscout1]

He should have divorced when this shit came up the first time instead of buyig her a 7 million dollar I'm sorry ring.

He has no prenuptial agreement.

He has no ghetto ass girl cousins that could whoop her ass and put the video on world star.

Kobe don't even have a video of her catching a money shot to blackmail her with.

She's gonna be one of the richest mexicans in the world.

 

[woodchuck]

"Clock's ticking. I'm counting down to half yo' shit, nigga!"

 

[Amajorfucup]

And he broke man code dry snitching on Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Karl Malone.
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*two cents*

What happened with Gasol?

 

[Damn Right]

I don't blame these chicks, I blame these spineless politicians who are afraid to do something about the laws, and the idiot celebs that marry these bitches and then fuck up.

fuk are u talking about? those political figures are the very ones that MADE the dayum laws in the first place. they ain't spineless and they weren't afraid to do sheit. they just did to MUCH sheit. they overcompensated for how it used to be back in the day, when dudes could divorce a chick and leave her high and dry with NO money and NO place to live. a lot of times they'd have three or four kids with um too. homeless and hungry. sheit was fuked up.

but the pendulum has swung to far the other way AGAINST dudes now

 

[Bigmario23]

Kobe met her when she was 18 and green!! WTF...he should have molded
her better and protected his assets as well. But I hear Cali still take half?

 

[Devilstrider]

Damn. My wife said the same thing about her. She said she was just playing the California system because if she really wanted to leave she would have done it already. She was just waiting for the 10 year mark.

 

[Rossini]

"Clock's ticking. I'm counting down to half yo' shit, nigga!"

 

[tuckdog]

She's gonna be one of the richest mexicans in the world.

 

[woodchuck]

fuk are u talking about? those political figures are the very ones that MADE the dayum laws in the first place. but they overcompensated for how it used to be back in the day, when dudes could divorce a chick and leave her high and dry with NO money and NO place to live. a lot of times they'd have three or four kids with um too. homeless and hungry. sheit was fuked up.

but the pendulum has swung to far the other way AGAINST dudes now

This is what I'm saying. Shit ain't like that no more. Fix it!

 

[TimRock]

What happened with Gasol?

same thing i want to know, with proof.

 

[woodchuck]

same thing i want to know, with proof.

I heard different stories like Kobe's wife setting Gasol's gf up with some guy, or some shit like that, and Kobe's wife telling Gasol's girl about Pau's dirt. Grain of salt.

 

[Naha-Nago]

What happened with Gasol?

Gasol finance broke off the engagement when she found out Pau was getting action on the road at the away games. She found that out through Vanessa Bryant.

Now who do you think told her....


If you go back to last years playoff loss Kobe and Pau didn't comminicated on the court during the whole series (which is rare cause Kobe usually is in Pau's ass during games getting him into position.) and afterwards Pau mentioned "Trust issues" among the teammates...

*two cents*

 

[Lick]

 

[woodchuck]

Gasol finance broke off the engagement when she found out Pau was getting action on the road at the away games. She found that out through Vanessa Bryant.

Now who do you think told her....


If you go back to last years playoff loss Kobe and Pau didn't comminicated on the court during the whole series (which is rare cause Kobe usually is in Pau's ass during games getting him into position.) and afterwards Pau mentioned "Trust issues" among the teammates...

*two cents*