Word: fame
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...right to question the credibility of his accuser. It is possible the accuser is telling the truth, but it is also possible that she has fabricated a story of rape in the mere hopes of not only damaging Bryant but also securing some of his wealth and fame for herself...
...undergo a knee operation at a clinic in Vail, checks into the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera in nearby Edwards on June 30, 2003. The front-desk clerk, a 19-year-old woman, shows him around the place and later visits him in his room, anticipating a brush with fame. They kiss by mutual agreement. Then they have sex: forced, she says; consensual, he says. He is arrested on July 4 and two weeks later charged with felony sexual assault...
Bryant has been a center of attention since he waltzed into the NBA out of high school. He wore his fame like an itchy turtleneck, never quite comfortable in it, yet never wanting to remove the celebrity garment. Teammates described him as an aloof, immature superstar. His on-court clash with personable big man Shaquille O'Neal over who would be the Alpha Laker poisoned the team's season more than the trial...
...conviction, or even a verdict, and Bryant's accuser may be saddled with a kind of fame she never bargained for. "It has ruined the life that she's known," says Strickland of his ex-girlfriend. "Her future is pretty well set for her. She's not allowed to put it behind...
...that they have The Scream, what can the thieves do with it? The very thing that makes some paintings especially valuable--fame--makes them very difficult to fence on the black market. The Scream, an image nearly everybody knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...