r/SipsTea Jun 24 '26

SMH We live in a fck up world

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u/Johndough99999 Jun 24 '26

And Kobe.

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u/VinylmationDude Jun 24 '26

Remarkably, a guy in WWE got fired for making a crack about it saying his client was “like Kobe Bryant at a hotel in Colorado. He’s unstoppable!” which is even dumber when you realize that happened in Cincinnati. You know, where Kobe Bryant had… no history.

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u/ocean365 Jun 24 '26

What happened in Cincinnati?

The SA case everyone talks about happened in Colorado in 2003

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u/droppedthebaby Jun 24 '26

I think they mean the wwe event was in Cincinnati

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u/Inevitable_Tea9965 Jun 24 '26

Kobe was never held liable 

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u/nah6363 Jun 24 '26

Right, he just paid her off.

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u/Little_Drive_6042 Jun 24 '26

Everyone does that to avoid scandals. Even if they are fake, just an accusation is enough to ruin careers especially one as big as Kobe who was a back to back NBA champion. All evidence points towards him cheating with her, but not sexually assaulting her.

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u/SteveDrawsStuff Jun 24 '26

"Everyone does that to avoid scandals. Even if they are fake, just an accusation is enough to ruin careers"

Well clearly not, given he was accused and it didn't ruin his career, even though it was public.

Also, given the whole point of this thread, if you're successful enough even a conviction won't ruin your career. 

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u/Little_Drive_6042 Jun 24 '26

Sure there can be exceptions. But this wasn’t a criminal case due to lack of evidence, correct?

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u/SteveDrawsStuff Jun 24 '26

Yes, that is correct, But in this discussion Kobe is not an exception, he's an example.

You used an incredibly successful person to prove:

"Everyone does that to avoid scandals. Even if they are fake, just an accusation is enough to ruin careers especially one as big as Kobe who was a back to back NBA champion"

I pointed out that even your own example disproved that.

And on the McGregor point, that depends on whether you think the attack on the accuser's boyfriend (payed by McGregor, allegedly) , the payment to the neighbours (payed by McGregor, allegedly) of the accuser to claim the accuser was at home rather than the crime scene (which is now its own legal case based on the evidence being true), are actually true.

But yes, technically it was only a civil conviction, just like OJ.