Charges Dropped against Kobe Bryant.

"Tom Leykis hurt in late-night Belltown assault
By HECTOR CASTRO
The Seattle Post IntelligencerUSA - An apparently unhappy listener assaulted radio personality Tom Leykis early Monday while the shock jock was in Seattle.

Leykis, whose Los Angeles-based program is heard locally on station KQBZ-FM, could not be reached for comment yesterday. Station management said they would not comment.

Police said they are investigating and have assigned a detective to the case.

"We are taking it very seriously," spokesman Scott Moss said yesterday.

The attack happened about 3:45 a.m. Monday outside the 5 Point Cafe near Belltown, according to a police report on the incident.

Leykis, 48, and a female companion were in the restaurant when he stepped outside alone for some fresh air. A man who was with two friends followed Leykis and snapped a photo, returning back inside and showing the photo to the two men with him.

When Leykis' companion went outside, the three men, all said to be in their 20s, followed. One of them confronted Leykis, saying he had called the radio program and that the radio host had insulted him on the air and questioned his virility.

"You had no right to do that," the man said.

One of his friends, the one who had snapped the photo, then kicked Leykis in the head, knocking him to the ground. Both men then ran off.

The third man apologized to Leykis as he and his companion got into a cab and headed for Leykis' hotel. The hotel called 911 for medical aid.

Leykis suffered a black eye, a cut above his eye that needed 17 stitches to close and scrapes to his knee.

Leykis' shows tend to be raunchy, and he often abuses those who call him. On his Web site, he includes hate e-mail he has received as a result of his program.

He is also known for courting controversy.

In 2001, he created a stir when he named a woman who tried to commit suicide by leaping from the Ship Canal Bridge in Seattle.

Last year, he named the woman accusing Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant of rape. In both cases, the mainstream media had not named the women."

He also said if she was raped by him, rape is nothing to be ashamed of and the woman shouldn't feel bad about it. But of course he was just being a bully and it's entirely plausible that one of his mouth-breathing listeners would have taken it upon themselves to seek her out. He just hates women.

If you're talking about protecting the alleged victim then I agree with you that that's necessary but it should be equally important to protect the alleged suspect until that person has been committed of the crime.

How so? Their client was in danger of being put in jail for the rest of his life. They maintain his innocence. Should they have accepted the accuser's story at face value? Should they have let her motives and story go unchallenged?

I think the stories make it pretty clear that if anyone is to be vilified in this thing, it's the prosecutors. They fucked up the case, they hid evidence, and they pursued a case they KNEW they couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

There's also the little matter of the those files that kept getting "accidentally" leaked to the internet, containing personal information about the young woman and the internal hearing concerning the relevance of her sexual history.

If none of that works, can I at least say that Kobe Bryant is fucking disgusting, for cheating on his wife and baby?

The rape sheild laws are meant to protect victims from being attacked as promiscuous or somehow "asking for it." That's not at all what Kobe's lawyers were trying to do, it seems to me.

As for the leaks, there are lots of court personnel with access to those files to, I would guess. We don't know who leaked them.

I am not a fan of Kobe, but nor do I think the lawyers in this case did anything untoward (at least that I have heard, but if you have some more specific examples, I am sure there is some info I haven't heard). Agreed that he seems like a sleazy dude.

Bryant: "I don't know man, I don't even know if I'll be able to play this season with this ... going on. If it becomes public I'll lose my wife ..."

Loya: "How long have you been married?"

Bryant: "... and all my endorsements."

Loya: "How long have you been married?"

Bryant: "Two years. My wife and daughter, them mean everything man, everything man, up and until now (inaudible)."

Winters: "Has this ever happened before?"

Bryant: "Um, yes, with one other person. And she could actually testify I do that um, I do the same thing, I hold her from the back, I put my hands (inaudible)."

Loya: "And who's that other person?"

Bryant: "Her name is Michelle."

Loya: "And this is somebody you frequent or one time incident or ...?"

Bryant: "No. She's a, she's a frequent (inaudible)."

Loya: "And your wife..."

Bryant: (Inaudible)

Loya: "Obviously your wife doesn't know about this?"

Bryant:" No. Nothing man, seriously."

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