Does Kobe Bryant's apology letter show how guilty he is or what?

Question

Pretend you're Kobe Bryant. You're at a hotel and you've been friendly with the fine looking white girl at the desk. Because of who you are, you've successfully lured her to your hotel room. She's real easy, ready and willing, and you have consensual sex with her. The next day this "friendly" girl suddenly lies and falsely accuses you of raping her. You get arrested, you have to pay lots of lawyers fees, you're faced with serious jail time, as public figure and basketball "star" you are totally embarrassed and humiliated, it causes you to LOSE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in endorsement deals, you're worried about what you're wife is going to say (until a $4 million ring shuts her up) etc etc etc.

Wouldn't you be absolutely furious at that girl? Instead he writes this apology letter:

http://www.insidehoops.com/kobe-bryant-apology-letter.shtml

CAN YOU SAY, GUILTY?

medal, it's for all the Kobe lovers in denial.

Answer 1

Of course he's guilty. He said so in the letter. If he were Joe Nobody from Podunk, Nowhere, they'd have put him under the jail. But because he's Kobe Bryant and can throw a ball, he has carte blanche to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, to whomever he wants. And, because he can throw a ball, the victim will be blamed and he will be defended to the death by his fans.

Answer 2

Yeah, his letter read like an admission of guilt to me. My take is that Kobe didn't know how to handle a girl like that in part because he never went to college. She was 19, a college student, girls like that can be flighty about what they want. They can go from 0 to 60 back to 0 in a minute, and you have to respect that. Kobe, probably all of his extramarital encounters have been with NBA groupies. He probably thought he was dealing with an NBA groupie, but she was just a typically conflicted college kid. If he had more
real life experience and not just NBA stardom distorted reality to deal with, he might have gotten a better read on the thing and she, he and the rest of us would've been better off.

Answer 3

I personally would not have written the letter. Even if he wrote the letter it would not have stopped the charges... There was not any evidence to charge him with rape. You have a girl who was caught up in the moment... a moron who didn't respect his wife enough to keep it in his pants and then a girl who realizes he isn't exactly going to leave his wife for her. Then she sees dollar signs. She should be charged with false accusations and I don't feel bad one bit for Kobe losing money for being a scumbag.

That being said... the letter was written under the advice of a Public Relations moron for damage control. Unfortunately for high profile people... doing something that an average piece of garbage would do creates a much larger problem for them... they usually pay to stop the thing from escalating.

I am a Kobe fan... but I lost much respect for him with this incident. I do give him some respect for facing the media and doing what needed to be done to repair things with his wife... I don't believe the 4 mil ring was the apology that held them together. You would be lying to say you have never purchased your wife or girlfriend something after a fight... just to smooth things over a bit...

Answer 4

He did not choose to write it. The lawyers for the 2 sides debated for over a month how the letter would be worded. So pretty much, he was told what to write.

Based on the actual evidence, it seems unlikely that he did it, but only God and the 2 of them will ever know for sure

Answer 5

maybe he is who knows, but you can't deny that hes a great player. This case has nothing to do of what he does on the court, but what he does off the court is nobodies business.

Answer 6

umm, like the first post, nobody really cares...

Answer 7

who cares