THE TIMES REPORTED ON THIS CIVIL CASE
The LA Times reports:
Hours after his sexual encounter with a hotel employee in Colorado, Kobe Bryant told investigators that Shaquille O’Neal, his Laker teammate at the time, had paid up to $1 million to women to keep them quiet about “situations like this,” according to a police report.
THE LA TIMES COVERED THIS --
146 Bettina Boxall, "City settles policy brutality suit over incident at a gay rights protest," Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1997.