Former housekeeper sues Kobe Bryant and wife
Kobe Bryant is in legal trouble again. But this time maybe he should give the housekeeper the bling. Actually, it’s his wife who should surrender her ring.
Bryant and his wife, Vanessa, are being sued for poor work conditions by their former housekeeper Maria Jimenez. In a suit filed in Orange County Superior Court in Calif., Jimenez alleges that she was forced to quit because of “intolerable” conditions.
She worked for the couple from September 2007 to March 2008 and, in the suit, claims that almost immediately upon starting work, “Vanessa began a continuing pattern of verbally abusing and demeaning her.”
Jimenez said she was called lazy, slow, dumb, a liar and was cursed and screamed at in front of Kobe, the couple’s children and others.
One of the most outrageous and disgusting claims states that Vanessa screamed at the former housekeeper following an incident in which Jimenez accidentally washed an expensive blouse: “Vanessa demanded that Maria put her hand in a bag of dog feces to retrieve the price tag for the blouse.”
Jiminez quit after that, but says Vanessa demanded that she work until her next pay day to cover the $690 cost of the blouse.
The couple also failed to provide promised health insurance, a fact that Jiminez didn’t discover until she got sick and went to a doctor.
The action seeks unspecified damages, as well as back pay and overtime Jimenez says she is owed.
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