Mar 25, 2015
Sterling's wife seeks tiny fortune husband gave girlfriend
The woman who was dating Donald Sterling when she recorded him making racially insensitive remarks that cost him ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers faces a fight with his estranged wife that could cost her the fortune he gave her.
The Canadian Press
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The man who lost ownership of the LA Clippers because of racial remarks says the woman who recorded his offensive words got her name on a house he purchased because she's black and Hispanic.
Donald Sterling testified Wednesday in a Los Angeles court during his wife's lawsuit that claims he was deceived into lavishing V. Stiviano with millions of dollars in gifts.
Sterling says he paid for Stiviano's $1.8 million duplex because she's poor and her family is on welfare.
Sterling noted that Stiviano is black and Hispanic, and he says she befriended a Hispanic bank employee and illegally got her name on a check for the house that should belong to him.
Shelly Sterling seeks $3.6 million her husband gave the younger woman that she says was her joint property.