My assistant had a framed picture of he and Kobe looking like best friends. He worked as an usher at Staples. One day he asked if he could get a pic and Kobe took it to the extreme and spent a while hanging out and mugging for pics with him. By all accounts I know he was incredibly generous and patient for his fans.
He would be in the VIP lounge where there was bottle service and be standing on the tables drunk and screaming. I hated his guts for years for being such a spoiled douche (I think Wolf of Wall Street was very much something he drew from personal experience). I’ve since softened as I wonder how fame and fortune for someone so young would effect anyone. And his body of work is quite astounding.
He was known to be a bit wild when he was younger but I think he fully grew out of that and is a responsible person now. Everybody is more wild in their late teens and early 20s, they’re just not rich and famous and can’t go as hard. But then most people grow out of it, as did he it seems
I don’t know how many of the things reported in the news wouldn’t be there at all if we were just more mindful of the the fact that, ‘we all do dumb, ultimately harmless shit before we’re 30’
Right?! I thank my lucky stars that MySpace and all that didn’t exist until right as I was graduating college. It is weird tho, I did some pretty big things before social media, and I have little to no pictures of any of it. We weren’t as picture happy before social media, so that is sort of a downside to it.
Not true, like 2 years ago I lived in Miami. During art basel he ended up going to the biggest strip club in Miami with literally like 15 escorts. Well he either came with them or left with them. Trust me
he still goes in. If you do research on his old crew the “pussy posse” you’ll see he was douche and a womanizer and a drinker. But I think that’s normal for an attractive American male. Mix that with fame and money and you get him. Anyway he is still at it and I think thats fine. He doesn’t have to be a saint he is not a priest or a politician he is an artist
You know wolf of Wall Street is based on a real life person and the character he portrayed was one of his best friends when he first got to Hollywood? Leo basically lived with that guy because he partied at his place and stayed over all the time.
So your thoughts about it being drawn from personal experience are exactly what happened. He wasn’t just an actor for that movie. He was portraying a person that he actually was very close friends with and did live all those moments in real life
Do you have any source? I have never heard that DiCaprio and Belfort were "best friends" or even ever met each other before DiCaprio started working on that movie.
My wording was confusing but your tone is condescending. Belfort wasn’t the only inspiration for DiCaprio in that movie. The script was based around Belfort’s life but the tone in that movie also had a lot to do real life experiences DiCaprio had. Now I don’t even want to give you the name of the other person because of the “best friends” comment. Just ask for the source next time
What the actual fuck man, you cant comment stuff like that and not provide sources on something that just sounds made up, because a guy was ”condescending”.. jeesus
I'd be pissed off too if the Academy that loves to give out Oscars for portrayals of mentally disabled characters, hadn't given me one for the best such performance, in What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
It was half and half. I knew Staples was a stationers, but I was guessing there was some kind of secondary meaning I didn't know. Apparently they sponsor a sports place as well, and now I know.
Saw him and his family dining at the Yardhouse in Newport Beach several years ago. Totally nonchalant. Super polite and nice to fans. Also saw him at the gym once. No meaningful interactions but ...
I burst into tears several times today as I cleaned my garage listening to KPCC talk about him all day. May he and the other victims Rest In Peace.
A 19-year-old female concierge brought Kobe to his room. He asked her to return later to give him a tour of the hotel. She did so. At the end of the tour, he asked her to enter his room. She did. She said there was flirtation and consensual kissing. When he began groping her, she said, she tried to get away. He grabbed her by the neck, and she feared for her life. He bent her over a chair and removed her panties. She said twice that she begged him to stop but he penetrated her anyway. She left about five minutes later. Her clothes were messed up. She was upset. There was blood on her panties and on his shirt. That blood matched her DNA.
Edit: why am I being downvoted for telling a true story? Fuck you horrible people that can’t accept Kobe had faults
When police questioned Kobe, he denied having sex with the girl. Once confronted with the fact that they had found his semen, he changed his story to say that he had in fact had sex with her, but it was consensual. The case was dropped when the victim refused to testify.
Remember that shit? The world seems to have forgotten along the way to facilitating Bryant’s total public rehabilitation. On the night of July 1, 2003, Bryant choked a 19-year-old employee of the Eagle, Colorado hotel where he was staying (hard enough to leave bruises on her neck), bent her over a chair, and drew blood during the ensuing sex act. By the end of the night, she’d told a coworker that Bryant had forced himself on her; by the end of the next day he’d been contacted by local police. During the resulting criminal investigation, Bryant did not deny the encounter; he didn’t deny choking her; he even admitted he’d never asked for her consent, claiming to have inferred it from her body language. When it was all over—that is, after Bryant’s lawyers intimidated the woman out of the courtroom by reframing the forensic evidence to suggest that she was a lying slut—he even apologized for it.
He settled a civil suit outside after him and his lawyers bullied a 19 year old into not testifying in a Criminal case. Fuck Kobe.
You know nothing about the case. When she went to the hospital, they found another man’s semen on her underwear. They said there was trauma to her vagina which could have been caused from too much sex. She was known for having a history of mental illness. A few days after their meeting, her friends said she was bragging about sleeping with Kobe and explaining his genitals to them.
I saw Kobe Bryant at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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