Remember the song, Gold Digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx which includes the words, “We want pre-nup?” Well, maybe Kobe should have listened to it. It’s not news that Vanessa Bryant has filed for divorce from Kobe, but the issue is now the settlement because there was no pre-nup.
Well, now it’s all about how the lawyers and the couple iron things out because there was no prenup. Some people are saying she should get half, others are saying she didn’t work for it, so she shouldn’t. What do you think? I think she should get half so she can spread the wealth around. She can do a lot to help the Latino community with the money.
At the very least, Kobe should pay the woman for her time. She was married to him for 10 years; was made the laughing stock in their social circles including the NBA wives for his inability to keep it in his pants, which was even probably worse because some say she was "aloof" because her husband is the star of the Lakers team, which isn't surprising because each environment has a pecking order.
She is said to have stayed in the unhappy marriage for 10 years because that’s the least amount of time you can spend to get the most amount of money. So if anything, she should be paid for her tenacity alone for sticking it out, so she should get her half and raise her kids.
However, there's a moral to learn from this story. Years ago, when they got married quickly and without Kobe's parent's knowledge or consent, after Kobe dumped an African American girl, word through the grapevine was that they got married because her stepfather who had adopted her legally, thinking of dollar$ had said he was going to charge Kobe with statutory rape if he didn’t marry her because she was underage and they were sleeping together at the time. He was cornered, and fearing he would lose everything he had worked for, so that’s why he married her, to avoid the charge and subsequent jail term he would have had to do, but to others who didn’t know this, the marriage was just too fast and was for unclear reasons.
However, the bible states, "Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails." They were both too young and immature to get married and even the schemer/instigator of the marriage didn’t benefit like he thought he would. When they got married, the step father was the first to leave Vanessa’s mother, when he realized that he no longer had any say in his own home because of his rich son in law because “everything” in his own home was about what Kobe wanted. Ahh, the power of money!!
He also didn’t benefit financially from having a rich son in law who he was instrumental in getting because that’s when Vanessa realized he was her "stepfather," not her father and only bought him a few clothes to show her appreciation, while her mother benefited immensely, including being bought a house close to Kobe’s mansion, so she could be close to Vanessa.
So here we are ten years later with two innocent children caught in the middle, learning the lesson again that manipulation never works long term. So people should learn to let what will be, be.
A word is enough for the wise…
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