See I don't buy that. For most women I don't think celebrity really serves as a substitute for sussing out a person's character in a close interpersonal way when they are in the same room, unless you're laying a slut charge on this girl, and, as I went on to say in that post, her character has been persuasively (for me) spoken for by her friends and schoolmates. She may have wanted to meet a celebrity and maybe hoped to make a contact in Hollywood (she is an aspiring singer), but that doesn't mean she intended to screw the guy within the first ten minutes.
Another little sign in my mind that Bryant is hiding something, besides shaving the goatee, was his abysmal behavior at his press conference tonight with the wife tightly holding his hand while he displayed total inarticulateness about what happened except to say "you know I would never do something like that."
I was in Bryant's corner when this story broke, but no longer. The story that is emerging does not jive with the "dragon lady with daggers and dollar signs in her eyes" defense that he's putting out.
Why not?
I am playing catch-up on the news in general, having been on the road for the past few weeks, but the first thing I thought when the Kobe story broke was, that chick is out to get herself a million or two. And ruin a man's career to boot.
I saw a snip of that press conference and he looked broken enough to me. Hell, I would be fairly broken at this point too.
The DA told the press that he has testimonial and physical evidence to prove his case "beyond a reasonable doubt". I'd have to hear the evidence before I change my views on this one.