In a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed on March 20 by Maria Jimenez, the 48-year-old housekeeper claims that Vanessa Bryant, wife and ultimate forgiverer of NBA All-Star Kobe Bryant, verbally abused her and humiliated her while she worked for the couple.Jimenez alleges that Vanessa "badgered and harassed her. Trashed talked me like it was the finals or something."
She also forced Jimenez to perform demeaning tasks such as digging into a bag of feces to retrieve a price tag for an expensive blouse Jimenez put in the washer. The Bryants have not disclosed the origin of the feces but admit they did keep a bag of feces in the house.
In addition, Jimenez claims that Mrs. Bryant called her “lazy,” “slow,” “dumb,” and a “liar,” with some profanity mixed in with the adjectives. "She talkin' to me like she gonna posterize me."
Jimenez says she tried to quit, but stayed after Kobe Bryant convinced her to stay, offered her a $2million dollar ring (It worked before!), and Vanessa apologized. Despite the apology, Bryant’s wife continued to yell at Jimenez.
The Bryants released a statement through the law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP stating that Jimenez’s claims are “totally unfounded and patently false.”
"The Bryants intend to vigorously defend against these untruthful allegations and are confident that the baseless nature of the allegations will be proven," the statement said. "The idea that one of the games all-time great players' wife would conduct herself in an abusive and demeaning manner after dealing with rape charges against her husband seems totally implausible."Jimenez is suing for more than $127,000 in unpaid medical benefits, more than $20,000 in unpaid wages and an unspecified dollar amount in general and punitive damages.
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So many questions - why exactly would one keep a bag of feces in the house, and why would a price tag be in it? Does Jimenez eat her price tags once she purchases her clothing? Was she going to take the expelled price tag back to the store in order to return the blouse-and if so would the store accept a feces covered price tag?...again…so many questions for Jimenez to answer.
Who are you to question the wife a an All-Star basketball player?
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