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SECOND WOMAN INVOLVED IN KOBE CASE: Prosecutors call in new witness.


Kobe Bryant
(Jan. 29, 2004) *Kobe is getting quite the reputation with the ladies for "room service."
"Celebrity Justice" has learned that prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant case contacted a Portland, OR hotel worker who Kobe allegedly had a sexual encounter with at a hotel where she worked.

"CJ" was also informed that the woman works for room service at the hotel. Reportedly, the woman disclosed to co-workers that the meeting between her and the NBA superstar was "hot and heavy."

Sources close to the woman tell "Celebrity Justice" she and Bryant actually met a few years ago at the hotel and he continued to request her for room service on repeated visits there.

Sources say the events that prosecutors are specifically interested in allegedly happened in April, 2003.

Sources claim that Bryant requested that the woman deliver him room service. When the woman went to his room, a source tells "CJ" Bryant flirted with her and she was receptive. "CJ" is told the two then began having a romantic encounter.

At some point in the "relationship," the young woman put a stop to things because she was involved with someone else at the time and also knew Kobe was married. But the two began to be intimate again. Sources say the woman finally said "no" and the encounter stopped. "CJ" is told the encounter did not get as far as sexual intercourse and was consensual.

But, it seems that the woman could help Kobe's case because CJ's source says she did, however, describe Bryant as a "perfect gentleman" and says she hopes he is acquitted of sexual assault charges in Colorado.

The woman talked with CJ and was extremely distraught over being brought into the Kobe case. A source says if subpoenaed, she would testify about her relationship with Kobe.