In the roughly four-year stretch between Kobe Bryant’s retirement and his death in 2020, he built a wide-ranging business portfolio that lives on.
The court documents state that Carter asked for an equity interest in Bryant’s investment in BodyArmor three times between 2017 and 2020; those requests were denied by Bryant each time. According to the documents filed this week, no evidence that anyone had been notified about that agreement was provided during arbitration, and Vanessa Bryant, BodyArmor chief executiveand BodyArmor chief marketing officer Mike Fedele testified they were unaware of any such agreement at the time.
Gupta ruled in favor of Vanessa Bryant in all three of those claims. Carter also lost on three separate causes of action filed against Kobe Inc., looking for “millions more,” the documents state, regarding a post-employment payout.