The billionaire wife of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling got her revenge against a woman he secretly showered with gifts and whose recording of his racially offensive rant cost him ownership of the team.
Shelly Sterling claimed that Stiviano seduced her 80-year-old husband and manipulated him to give up community property the couple amassed through a real estate rental empire built over six decades of marriage.
“Shelly is thrilled with the decision,” attorney Pierce O’Donnell said.
The award is a trifle for Sterling, but represents a triumph over a younger woman who cuddled up to her husband in public, told others she was the “next Mrs. Sterling” and caused them shame when the recordings surfaced.
Stiviano’s recordings toppled her husband and “took us both down,” Shelly Sterling testified at trial last month. “We lost the team. They were like another child.”
Stiviano was partly undone by those same phone recordings.
“Everything that I have you’ve given me from your heart without me begging or asking or throwing myself all over you,” Stiviano could be heard telling the billionaire in a clip played at trial to show they plotted to shield gifts from his wife.
Judge Richard Fruin Jr. rejected arguments by Stiviano’s lawyer that the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated and that Shelly Sterling couldn’t seek them from a third party.
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Attorney Mac Nehoray said he and his client were disappointed and would appeal the ruling, which is tentative and will become final in 15 days if there are no objections.
“Judges are supposed to interpret the law not make them,” he said in an email.
The ruling comes nearly a year after the recording of Sterling telling Stiviano not to associate with black people caused an uproar and led the NBA to ban him for life and fine him $2.5 million.
With the NBA threatening to seize the team, Shelly Sterling got hold of a family trust by showing her husband had signs of Alzheimer’s disease and negotiated a record $2 billion sale to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Her husband failed to block the sale in court and has sued his wife and the NBA in federal court.
The couple presented a united front at the Stiviano trial, discussing their enduring love for each other.
Testimony shed little light on the nature of the unusual three-way relationship that lasted about 2½ years.
Shelly Sterling said she assumed Stiviano was her husband’s mistress.
Stiviano and Donald Sterling denied having sex. She referred to him as a father figure and lover.
Donald Sterling, who was incredulous that his wife had described them at one point as being estranged, referred to the 32-year-old Stiviano as an “ex-friend.”
Shelly Sterling and Stiviano didn’t hide their disdain for each other.
Shelly Sterling said Stiviano had been nasty to her and taken advantage of her husband and didn’t deserve millions in gifts. Stiviano called Sterling the “Wicked Witch of the West” and said she hated her.
Sterling initially sought about $3.6 million from Stiviano, a figure an accountant said was a conservative estimate of the gifts that included the $240,000 Ferrari, a Bentley, a Range Rover, extravagant spending sprees and world travel.
After Fruin said he was having difficulty connecting all the money to Stiviano, lawyers for Sterling reduced their claim to $2.8 million, based on evidence and Stiviano’s own admissions.
Fruin awarded all of that but $200,000, saying he had no credible evidence to support Stiviano’s guess that she rang up hundreds of thousands of dollars on Donald Sterling’s credit card.
Who laff last laff de best mi grandgada always seh
Delighted!!!! Now go give back the Woman her stuff Boo Boo Kitty!!!
Yaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!!
no yayyy if she was sucking him she did fi get all that and more…only thing whey mi nuh agree with is her talking
For that she breached and should get Naything but penetration!!! Took the ladies husband and then ruined their livelihood in sorts!!!
Willingly entered a whores role and then take advantage of his privacy and trust……..naything but dick and bubble gum!!!
yup….she was stupid for that and never know seh she was just another story to the media..
s that’s right she did too nuff n chat. She should a keep ar mouth quiet. Met she never wa nutten damn stupid.
yupp she should never open that mouth of hers she too nuff
When them done with her she’s going to be a bum!
Mi nuh rang har fi out di racist pig..but she deserve wah she get and much more fi put harself innah people marriage…she lucky seh di judge nevah ask back fi di plastic surgery dem….favah dem dyam gecko..
Dayyyyyuuum,guess she gonna write a tell all book now fi a man she seh was just kind to har weh she neva sleep with…wid har liard self
When you money light don’t dare go up gense those who are extremely wealthy. Dem hab money fi lawyers fi years, while you caan test. Very rarely you see a likkle person win a big money smaddy in deze kind of tings. Good lawyers come een at $600/hr, she in LA suh goodly much more dan dat, which average person hab dat kind of money ?
All di scandal and see di husband and wife still deh. Wife dun know she was not di first and will not be the last, but you try fi mess up dem money, and di claws come out.
she need a betta lawyer cause wah him and di wife have a 50/50. him can spen fi him how him feel like plus a nuh like seh di wife neva know bout er eediat lawyer dat
She should have never opened up her mouth ..tek har cut and hold her corner
true but wah kind a lawyer she have dem must pay him 2 fi she loose
She couldn’t win , di man did a act senile as soon as the thing hit the www so all that maybe use ina di case
diss mean if a man guh out n buy some pum di wife can get back back di money
I dont think a dat eno..she destroyed him somewhat so dem did have all right to get back at her. The wife did know bout har long time
but di law cyaan support revenge a just bad lawyer, plus she nih look suh bright. di judge n fi lawyer must get payoff ( dem did deh fi almost 3 years) and everybody didn’t know
thats how it go when u rich das y mi seh she shouldn’t talk
What is wrong with you people?? Yuh mad? Yuh high? Both???
She exposed dis white bumbaclot because he is RACIST. He tell har she cyaan tek no photo wid a black man and post it pon Instagram. Da gyal half black yuh know! Madness dat mi seh!
And yuh just wanna diss di gyal and chat a bag a tings and say she stupid and she deserve it and rey rey rey.
So basically, if you support him, den you support RACISM.
Dis world nuh need no hate or no racism. Check ya head before yuh type some idiot comments.
Serve har right! Yuh caan tek di racists pig stuff and expect fi keep dem. Miss V mi glad yuh expose him, but memba seh him did married. Now go and learn a skill/trade….selling pums doe carry pension….:travel
Oh now you gonna blame V cuz the racist pig look for pum pum outside his marriage?
Yuh gonna blame V because di man racist too?
Yuh nuh too bright!