Recently we reported that the Black Mamba was acting a plum azz while in London. Apparently Kobe was doing his best to try to chop down three-time gold medal swimmer from Australia Stephanie Rice.

However, the alleged swirlin’ swimmer took to her Twitter to dispel the mounting tumors, insisting there is nothing romantic between the two:

She continued…

We know as soon Vanessa touched down all of Kobe’s extracurricular actives were done and wifey wasn’t playing that mess. Yeah, we believe these two were “friends” the same way Drake wishes he was friends with Aaliyah. Do better Kobe!

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