Natalia Bryant has secured extended protection for herself, her mother and her siblings against an alleged stalker who has reportedly been following her since her teenage years.
According to TMZ, a Los Angeles judge granted the 22-year-old a five-year extension on her restraining order and approved the inclusion of her mother, Vanessa Bryant, and siblings Bianka and Capri as protected parties.
Here’s more on the extension and Bryant’s restraining order against her alleged stalker, Dwayne Kemp.
Natalia’s lawyers claim Kemp violated the restraining order in August
According to court documents, Natalia, whose attorneys first filed the request for an extension back in November, claimed Kemp violated the order in August. He allegedly attended an event hosted by Natalia and her employer in an attempt to contact her.
“At the August 24th event, Kemp brought flowers that he intended to give directly to Ms. Bryant, but when he could not locate her, he instead attempted to deliver the flowers to Ms. Bryant’s mother, Vanessa Bryant, with the intention that those flowers be delivered to Ms. Bryant,” the filing read, The Daily Mail reported.
It added, “Kemp’s effort to contact Ms. Bryant indirectly through her immediate family member, namely her mother, demonstrates his continued fixation and complete disregard for the [Civil Harassment Restraining Order’s] prohibitions. Upon encountering security, Kemp admitted his conduct would violate the CHRO, but Kemp stated that his conduct was now permissible because he believed (mistakenly) that the order had expired.”
The filing includes security camera pictures of a man, whom Natalia’s legal team is claiming is Kemp, holding a bouquet of flowers similar to ones he posted online. According to the filing, the flowers were for Vanessa.
“He was hoping to give them to someone, to pass along to her on his behalf,” the filing read. “During the interview the Suspect acknowledged that he knew that Vanessa Bryant was at the event but knew that the Victim was not there.”
Kemp allegedly “thought the restraining order had expired and that the event was open to the public.”
According to TMZ, Natalia claims, when Kemp ran into security at the event, he “admitted his conduct would violate the [restraining order].”
She believes his behavior “demonstrates his continued fixation and complete disregard” for the restraining order.
Natalia claims Kemp is a gun enthusiast and has one registered firearm
Natalia filed the restraining order against Kemp in 2022. At the time, she alleged that he had started contacting her a couple of years prior when she was 17 years old, just months after the tragic deaths of her father, Kobe Bryan,t and sister Gianna, The Daily Mail reported.
In the November filing, the 22-year-old also claimed that Kemp is a gun enthusiast and has one registered firearm. Kemp has shared several pictures of himself with guns on social media, and Natalia alleged in prior legal filings that he’s been arrested or convicted of a minimum of four crimes, one of which involved guns, TMZ reported.