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FOLDED conveniently into the narratives about his “complicated past” was the detail about Kobe Bryant that could have wrecked him.
It was a rape allegation by a 19-year-old employee of a Colorado hotel. It happened in 2003. Some argued that making that life-altering detail a mere footnote to the stories detailing Bryant’s life and unexpected death was the human thing to do on such an awful day.
Others felt it was another example of an icon being given a pass of sorts because he was a successful athlete.
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