03.25.09 KOBE’S GETTING SUED–BY HIS MAID

As a rule, I turn a deaf ear to people whining about issues with any housekeeping help in their employ. I’m living off McChickens and Ritz crackers and you’re gonna cry about people you pay to clean your house? Of course, the exception to said rule is when the employer is Kobe Bryant, and the maid, Maria Jiminez, has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in Orange County:

Maria Jimenez claims Vanessa called her “lazy, slow, dumb, a f—ing liar, and f—ing sh-t.”

Jimenez says it got so bad — Vanessa allegedly “badgered, harassed and humiliated Maria by yelling and screaming at Maria and criticizing her in front of Kobe, the Bryants’ children, employees and other people in the household” — she threatened to quit but Kobe talked her out of it.

The final straw: When Vanessa went nuclear because Maria put an expensive blouse in the washer. Vanessa demanded that Maria put her hand in a bag of dog feces to retrieve the price tag for the blouse.

But how could someone like Vanessa have such a deep reservoir of anger? And Kobe seems like such a nice guy on TV. Except for a short collection of videos after the jump of Kobe throwing towels at people. He does it so well, it makes me wonder why he doesn’t pass the ball more often. Oh, right, because he’s a selfish prick.

|as reported by TMZ|

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