Kobe Bryant‘s eldest daughter Natalia Bryant was a vision of elegance as she attended a screening of Babylon at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles Thursday.
The model/college student, 19, was clad in a Delfina pleated cutout one-shoulder dress at the function, wearing her dark brown locks down.
Bryant – who was seen earlier this week with her mother Vanessa at a Baby2Baby event in Los Angeles – accessorized with strappy heels and jewelry as she walked the red carpet of the Hollywood event.
Out and about: Kobe Bryant’s eldest daughter Natalia Bryant, 19, was a vision of elegance as she attended a screening of Babylon at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles Thursday
Natalia wore a gold necklace that read ‘Slim,’ to honor her late father, at the high-profile event.
She said in a Vogue piece earlier this month that the phrase is the nickname her late father gave her.
‘This is a necklace that says, “Slim,”‘ she said in the clip. ‘That was my nickname growing up. I was just so eency-teency. All my jerseys said slim. I didn’t grow into the jerseys until I was, like, older. So my dad would always call me “Slim.”‘
Bryant was spotted out a day after she was granted a restraining order against a man who she said had sent her unwanted messages, stalked her in person and owns a cache of weapons.
The model/college student was clad in a Delfina pleated cutout one-shoulder dress
The eldest daughter of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant wore her dark brown locks down
Natalia wore a necklace that read ‘Slim,’ which honors her late father, to the high-profile event
A Sun Valley, California name named Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, was ordered by Los Angeles County Superior Court Wednesday to remain a minimum of 200 yards from Natalia for the next three years, NBC Los Angeles reported.
Bryant testified in court in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday about the fear and anxiety Kemp’s actions brought her after he stalked her for multiple years both online and in-person.
‘He was in love with me,’ Bryant told the court of Kemp, who she had never met or corresponded with online. ‘He wanted to make love to me. He wanted to be together.’
Bryant told the court that Kemp began sending her direct messages on social media when she was 17-years-old, and she didn’t block him so as not to trigger him to violence.
‘I was in fear for the longest time, that if I did block him, he would act in rage or get angry,’ Bryant said, adding that she continually ignored the messages Kemp sent.
Bryant said Kemp escalated his pattern of disturbing behavior when he showed up at her sorority house at USC to see her, toting a bouquet of edible flowers, then came back with real flowers and asked people at the school where she was.
‘He says he wants to come visit me, and then … he does,’ she testified.
Bryant accessorized with strappy heels and jewelry as she walked the red carpet of the Hollywood event
The emerging model struck a number of poses on the red carpet at the event
A detective with the Los Angeles Police Department told the court that Kemp was considered dangerous, citing clips and images he posted online purchasing semiautomatic weapons.
Kemp told the court that he owns the weapons, which are legally registered, as part of his work in security.
He said that he was romantically interested in Bryant once she turned 19, but did not have malicious or harmful intentions, describing the course of events as ‘totally a misunderstanding.’
Kemp said he gives ‘flowers to females all the time, and it works,’ and that he would have backed off of Bryant had she blocked him on social media.
‘If I would’ve been blocked, I would’ve known right then and there that she wasn’t interested,’ Kemp told the court.
The court said in its ruling that Kemp had shown ‘stalking behavior,’ and ordered him to remain at least 200 yards away from Natalia, as well as her home, work, school and vehicle.
Kemp was also ordered to sell, or surrender to authorities, all of his firearms, which he said would hinder his career in security, the outlet reported.
A Sun Valley, California name named Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, was ordered by Los Angeles County Superior Court Wednesday to remain a minimum of 200 yards from Natalia for the next three years, NBC Los Angeles reported
Bryant, who is a model for IMG, is pursuing a degree at film at USC. She is the eldest daughter of the late NBA icon and Vanessa Bryant, 40, who she was seen with in LA last year
In court docs filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last month and reviewed by TMZ, Bryant said that Kemp has her fearing for her life after a string of troubling actions that add up to stalking.
Bryant said Kemp first made an attempt to contact her in 2020 ‘as if we had a romantic relationship, or as if he wanted to initiate such a relationship,’ according to court docs obtained by Fox.
In one instance, Natalia said that Kemp sent her a DM that included a picture of the late Kobe Bryant with the inscription, ‘Thankful For Him Birthing You, Hopefully We Can Birth Him… Kobe,’ with the implication they would have ‘a Kobe-like child together.’
Bryant told the court Kemp sent her another message this past October 23, 2022 that read, ‘I Love You And I’m Sorry. Can We Talk And Makeup So We Can Be Friends Again..?’
According to court papers, Kemp is ‘a gun enthusiast’ who has been arrested and/or convicted on at least four occasions, in one instance involving firearms.
Kemp has past ‘threatened to buy both an AK-47 and a fully automatic Glock,’ the outlet reported citing court docs, and in currently in the purchasing process of a firearm.
Bryant, who is a model for IMG, is pursuing a degree at film at USC. She is the eldest daughter of the late NBA icon, 41, and Vanessa Bryant, 40, who are also parents to the late Gigi, 13, as well as Bianka, five, and Capri, three.
Kobe and Gigi died with seven others on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
