Kobe Bryant wife to seek divorce (VIDEO)

Vanessa Bryant filed the divorce papers of her husband superstar, according to reports.

TMZ reports that Vanessa Bryant, Kobe's wife of 10 years, moved to the end of their marriage, citing "irreconcilable differences". Vanessa has requested joint custody of their daughters Natalia Diamante and Gianna Maria-Onore, who are 8 and 5, respectively.

Kobe Bryant And Vanessa

"The Bryant’s have solved all the problems of the incident to their divorce in private with the assistance of a lawyer and a trial of the dissolution of their marital status entered into 2012," a representative told in a Data.

Kobe and Vanessa Lane then met while filming a video for hip-hop album, which was never released. Lane was a backup dancer for 17 years who was still in high school. When Kobe and Vanessa married in 2001, his parents and sisters who disapproved of the relationship - are not present. In his memoirs recently published Shaquille O'Neal, Shaq says none of his teammates Bryant, with whom he had a sticky relationship, have been invited to the wedding.

In 2003, Kobe was charged of raping a hotel employee of 19 years in a Colorado resort. Before the case was heard, Kobe settled out of court with the accuser for an undisclosed sum.

It was on the initiate to this trial that Kobe has a Vanessa 8 carat diamond ring worth nearly purple $ 4 million.

"I know that my husband made a mistake - the mistake of adultery," Vanessa said in the statement at the time. "He and I have to deal with that within our marriage, and we will do. It is not a criminal."

In a 2009 Esquire profile, Kobe and Vanessa have been portrayed as a loving couple who were very protective of their girls. "Kobe told me shamelessly when he met it was love at first sight," wrote Mike Sager. "Kobe calls her Mamacita. He holds her hand wherever they go. Sometimes he spoke in Spanish. "

TMZ says the couple did not enter into a pre-nuptial agreement. When his current contract ends, Kobe Bryant has earned $ 280 million in wages NBA. He succeeded a strong amount of revenue, maybe in the hundreds of millions of his endorsement contracts with companies of products such as Nike and McDonald's.