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Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:36 pm**

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Bryant Told Police of O'Neal Payouts
July 2003 report says Laker alleged then-teammate bought women's silence. Center's agent denies it.

By Jeff Benedict, Tim Brown and Steve Henson, Special to The Times

Hours after his sexual encounter with a hotel employee in Colorado, Kobe Bryant told investigators that Shaquille O'Neal, his Laker teammate at the time, had paid up to $1 million to women to keep them quiet about "situations like this," according to a police report.

An Eagle County, Colo., detective wrote in a report that Bryant made the comment near the end of a lengthy interrogation on July 2, 2003, about allegations that Bryant had raped the woman, then 19, in his resort hotel room.

O'Neal was informed of the comment last September, about two weeks before Laker training camp opened in Hawaii, when prosecution investigators made an unsuccessful attempt to question him. His agent, Perry Rogers, said Tuesday that the allegation in Bryant's statement was untrue and "undeserving of a response."

Dang! If this story is true, you really have to give props to Shaq for handling it the way he did. Even if its true that is violating a sort of unspoken rule between players, no one will trust him anymore. Wow! That's a big story. Expect to hear more soon

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-bry ... ome-sports

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:27 pm**

Yeah,, I saw that on SportsCenter. I just thought "wow, this is so sad."

Can't wait to see what happens next.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:29 pm**

money can buy anything. maybe kobe is a tightwad..... :shock:

pay now or pay later.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:35 pm**

hailskins666 wrote:money can buy anything. maybe kobe is a tightwad.....
pay now or pay later.

i dunno, remember that gajillion dollar ring he bought his wife after everyone found about the incident :roll:

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:39 pm**

well the one million dollars to the ho in question would have been a LOT cheaper than that gajillion dollar ring + a trial + bad publicity....

tightwad.

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:45 pm**

point taken

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:05 pm**

Jake wrote:Yeah,, I saw that on SportsCenter. I just thought "wow, this is so sad."

Can't wait to see what happens next.

Kobe will continue to be a loner... who's gonna want to (risk) hanging out with him now?

:hmm:

How does he know what Shaq did anyway I didn't think the hung out off the court

Posted: **Wed Sep 29, 2004 11:52 pm**

Shaq's better off in Miami.

Posted: **Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:13 am**

See to me that isn't anything against Shaq. There are women out there that realize and take advantage of the fact that "Kobe's charge" is a very sensative issue. They can claim it and if anyone questions them or the validity of it, it makes the questioner look bad. These women use that to their advantage and could easily extort money from someone like Shaq whose rep is already somewhat rocky. So to me that's all it is saying. Not that Shaq did these things but that he paid someone off, not to claim he did. I think he's guilty like Kobe of an affair not nessecarily anything more.

I have no changed my mind about Kobe one bit. I believe if this girl had truely had reason to bring those charges they wouldn't have been so easily dropped.