Kobe Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia Bryant, on Wednesday obtained a restraining order against a man she says sent her unwanted messages, harassed her in person and possessed a cache of weapons.
A Sun Valley, Calif. named Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, has been ordered by Los Angeles County Superior Court to stay at least 200 yards away from Natalia for the next three years, NBC Los Angeles reported. .
Bryant, 19, testified in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Wednesday about the fear and anxiety Kemp’s actions brought to him after years of stalking her online and online. nobody.
Details: Kobe Bryant’s eldest daughter, Natalia Bryant, 19, was granted a restraining order on Wednesday against a man she says sent her unwanted messages, harassed her in person and had a cache of weapons. Photographed last month in New York
“He was in love with me,” Bryant told the court of Kemp, whom 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 started sending him direct messages on social media when he was 17 and that she didn’t block him so as not to trigger him into violence.
“I was afraid for a very long time that if I blocked him he would act in rage or get angry,” Bryant said, adding that she continually ignored messages sent by Kemp.
Bryant said Kemp escalated his disturbing behavior when he showed up at his sorority house at USC to see her, carrying a bouquet of edible flowers, then came back with real flowers and asked people to the school where she was.
A Sun Valley, Calif. named Dwayne Cortez Toliver Kemp, 32, has been ordered in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stay at least 200 yards away from Natalia for the next three years. She was photographed last week in LA
Bryant told the court that Kemp started sending him direct messages on social media when he was 17 and that she didn’t block him so as not to trigger him into violence.
“He says he wants to come visit me, and then… he does,” she testified.
A Los Angeles Police Department detective told the court that Kemp was considered dangerous, citing clips and images he posted online to buy semi-automatic weapons.
Kemp told the court he owned the weapons, which are legally registered, as part of his security work.
He said he was romantically interested in Bryant once she was 19, but had no malicious or harmful intentions, describing the course of events as “totally a misunderstanding.”
Kemp said he gives “flowers to women all the time, and it works,” and that he would have backed down from Bryant if she blocked him on social media.
“If I had been blocked, I would have known right away that she wasn’t interested,” Kemp told the court.
The court said in its ruling that Kemp engaged in “stalking behavior” and ordered him to stay at least 200 yards away from Natalia, as well as his home, work, school and community. his vehicle.
Kemp was also ordered to sell or turn over to authorities all of his firearms, which he said would hamper his career in security, the newspaper reported.
Bryant, who models for IMG, is studying film at USC. She is the eldest daughter of the late NBA icon and Vanessa Bryant, 40, who she was seen with in Los Angeles last year.
In court documents filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court last month and reviewed by TMZ, Bryant said Kemp feared for his life after a series of disturbing actions that add up to harassment.
Bryant said Kemp first attempted 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 documents obtained by Fox.
In one instance, Natalia said Kemp sent her a DM that included a photo of the late Kobe Bryant with the caption, “Thankful For Him Birthing You, Hopefully We Can Birth Him…Kobe,” with the implication that they would “a Kobe”. -like a child together.’
Bryant told the court that Kemp sent him another message on October 23, 2022 that read, “I love you and I’m sorry.” Can we talk and make up to be friends again? »
According to court documents, Kemp is “a firearms enthusiast” who has been arrested and/or convicted on at least four occasions, in one case involving firearms.
Kemp has previously “threatened to purchase both an AK-47 and a fully automatic Glock,” the outlet reported citing court documents, and is currently in the process of purchasing a firearm.
Bryant, who models for IMG, is studying 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. year.
Kobe and Gigi died along with seven others on January 26, 2020 in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California.
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