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Privacy concerns have been raised by several commentators including ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/308377827/racist-remarks-behind-closed-doors-was-sterlings-privacy-violated|title=What About Donald Sterling's Right To Privacy?|newspaper=National Public Radio|date=May 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/|title=Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics|author=Kareem Abdul-Jabbar|date=April 28, 2014|newspaper=Time Magazine}}</ref> Privacy concerns have been raised by several commentators including ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/308377827/racist-remarks-behind-closed-doors-was-sterlings-privacy-violated|title=What About Donald Sterling's Right To Privacy?|newspaper=National Public Radio|date=May 1, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/|title=Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics|author=Kareem Abdul-Jabbar|date=April 28, 2014|newspaper=Time Magazine}}</ref>

==Skid Row homeless assistance pledge==
In a June 26, 2006, '']'' article,<ref></ref> it was announced that the Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation's would spend $50 million on a site on the eastern end of ] to provide services for Los Angeles' homeless population. According to an '']'' article<ref> Donald T. Sterling's Skid Row Mirage
"The billionaire Clippers owner claims he's creating a major homeless center. He's not, but image is what counts."</ref> from February 19, 2008, critics were skeptical that the homeless center would ever be built, and surmised that Sterling bought the property purely for its real-estate value. A 2009 follow up article from the ''LA Weekly''<ref> Donald T. Sterling's Fake Homeless Center
"After hiatus, ads began again"</ref> stated that the foundation had yet to start on its promises, but it continued to run full-page ads trumpeting its pledge in the ''LA Times''.


==Discrimination lawsuits== ==Discrimination lawsuits==

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Donald Sterling
File:Donald Sterling.jpgSterling in 1989
BornDonald Tokowitz
(1934-04-26) April 26, 1934 (age 90)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityUnited States
Alma materCalifornia State University, Los Angeles (B.A.)
Southwestern Law School (J.D.)
Occupation(s)Real estate developer, owner of Los Angeles Clippers
Known forOwner of Los Angeles Clippers
SpouseRochelle Stein
Children3

Donald Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz, April 26, 1934) is an American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of 2014, the team is valued at $575 million by Forbes magazine, ranking them 13th out of 30 teams. At 33 seasons of ownership (1981 to present), Sterling has been the longest-tenured owner in the NBA since the death of Los Angeles Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss in 2013.

On April 29, 2014, Sterling was banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million by the NBA after recordings of him making racist comments were made public.

Early life and education

Donald Tokowitz (now legally Donald Sterling) was born in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles when he was two years old. His parents, Susan and Mickey, were Ashkenazic Jewish immigrants. He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where he was on the school's gymnastics team and served as class president; he graduated in 1952. He next attended California State University, Los Angeles (Class of 1956) and Southwestern University School of Law (Class of 1960) in Los Angeles.

Legal and real estate career

Starting in 1961, Sterling began to make his career as a divorce and personal injury attorney building an independent practice when Jews had few opportunities at prestigious law firms. His biggest ventures were in real estate, which he began when he purchased a 26-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills. Sterling purchased Lesser Towers, developed by Louis Lesser in the 1960s.

NBA ownership

Sterling and Los Angeles Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss were indirectly responsible for each owning their respective NBA franchises. The first instance came in 1979, in which Buss used the money he made from selling a portion of his apartment buildings to Sterling (worth $2.7 million), which covered the remaining balance in purchasing the Lakers, the Kings hockey team, and the Los Angeles Forum from Jack Kent Cooke for $67 million. Two years later, Buss suggested to Sterling that he could purchase his own NBA franchise, and Sterling bought the struggling San Diego Clippers for $12.5 million. Unlike Buss' instant success with the Lakers (including winning an NBA championship in his first season as owner, 1979–80), Sterling and his Clippers struggled through many lackluster seasons, and they did not have their first winning season until the 1991–92 season, eleven years into his ownership. In Sterling's 33 years of owning the Clippers through 2013–14, the Clippers lost 50 or more games 22 times, 60 or more on eight occasions, and 70 games once. Their 9–41 record in the lockout-shortened 1998–99 season projected to another 60-loss season.

Sterling in 1982 was fined $10,000 by the NBA after he commented that he would accept the Clippers finishing in last place in order to draft an impact player like Ralph Sampson. In 1984, Sterling moved the Clippers from San Diego to Los Angeles. However, the move was not approved by the NBA, which fined him $25 million. He sued the league for $100 million, but dropped the suit when the league agreed to decrease the fine to $6 million. Sterling has been widely criticized for his frugal operation of the Clippers, due in part to a consistent history of losing seasons. The club was long considered the laughingstock of the NBA. With the Clippers' move into Staples Center in the 1999–2000 NBA season, the team began to become a contender, winning 47 games in the 2005–06 season. This was a record for the most victories in a single season since the franchise moved to California. It was also only the second winning season in Sterling's tenure as owner. In the lockout-shortened 2011–2012 season they made the playoffs with the best winning percentage in their history (.606) and they won their first round series against the Memphis Grizzlies, 4–3, before being swept by the San Antonio Spurs, 4–0, in the conference semi-finals. Led by Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, the Clippers posted two more winning campaigns in 2012–13 and 2013–14, setting new franchise records for regular-season wins with 56 and 57, respectively.

Sterling rebuffed numerous offers from other cities to relocate the Clippers, and has been steadfast in his refusal to move the team out of Los Angeles, let alone sell the team. While the team played a few games in Anaheim in the Arrowhead Pond (now the Honda Center) for a few years before the Staples Center opened, he has not been willing to move the team there permanently. In recent years, he has shown an increased willingness to spend. In 2003, Sterling signed Elton Brand to a six-year, $82 million deal, the biggest contract in franchise history. He matched the contract the Utah Jazz offered restricted free agent Corey Maggette: a deal worth $45 million over six years. The Clippers have signed higher-priced veteran free agents, such as Cuttino Mobley in 2005, Tim Thomas in 2006, and Los Angeles native Baron Davis in 2008. In another first during the Sterling tenure of Clippers ownership, the team gave a four-year contract extension to head coach Mike Dunleavy, Sr., as well as a five-year extension to center Chris Kaman. Both extensions took effect starting in the 2007–08 NBA season.

Under Sterling's ownership, only Dunleavy and Bill Fitch (1994–1998) have lasted four seasons or more as Clipper head coach; as of the 2009–10 NBA season, Dunleavy entered his seventh season as Clipper head coach, by far the longest tenure in franchise history, but was relieved of his coaching duties on February 4, 2010. Dunleavy was also the club's general manager, but was fired from that position a month later. The Clippers accused Dunleavy of defrauding the team, and he sued the club for money owed on the remainder of his contract. An arbitrator ordered the Clippers pay Dunleavy $13 million in 2011. The Clippers also went to court with former head coaches Fitch and Bob Weiss. Weiss, who signed a three-year contract but was fired in 1994 after one season, had to sue to receive money that was still owed him. The Clippers sued Fitch, age 63 when fired by the team in 1998, after they stopping paying him for failing to seek employment to reducing the team's obligation for payment. The suit reached an undisclosed settlement before going to court.

Sterling spent $50 million to build a state-of-the-art practice facility and team headquarters in Los Angeles' Playa Vista mixed-use development neighborhood. This followed the lead of several other NBA franchises, including the Lakers, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Detroit Pistons, in having their own facility dedicated exclusively for team use. The facility was completed and opened in September 2008, in time for the start of the team's training camp. The team previously practiced at a local health club in suburban El Segundo, and before that at Los Angeles Southwest College.

Sporting News described Sterling as "one of the worst owners in basketball for decades", while The New York Times and Forbes have called him the "worst owner" in sports. ESPN The Magazine in 2009 named the Clippers the worst franchise in professional sports. Since purchasing the Clippers in 1981, Sterling's ownership oversaw the worst winning percentage through 2013–14 of the four major American sports leagues. In 1981, he refused to pay the $1,000 prize to a local lawyer who won a free throw contest until the contestant filed a lawsuit. Uncharacteristic for an owner, Sterling in 2010 heckled players on his own team—with Baron Davis receiving the harshest treatment—while the owner sat courtside during home games.

Lifetime ban over remarks leaked to public

On April 25, 2014, TMZ Sports released a recording of a conversation between Sterling and a female friend, V. Stiviano In the recording from September 2013, a man confirmed to be Sterling was irritated over a photo Stiviano posted on Instagram in which she posed with Basketball Hall of Fame player Magic Johnson. Sterling told Stiviano: "It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people" and ""You can sleep with . You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want", but "the little I ask you is ... not to bring them to my games."

Clippers president Andy Roesen issued a statement the following day, indicating that Stiviano was being sued by the Sterling family and had "told Mr. Sterling that she would 'get even'" with him. A month earlier in March, Sterling's wife, Rochelle, had sued Stiviano for the return of a $1.8-million L.A. duplex as well as a Ferrari, two Bentleys and a Range Rover she said her husband bought for Stiviano.

On April 26, 2014, the team held a meeting to discuss the incident. Both coaches and players expressed anger toward the comments and they briefly raised the possibility of boycotting Game 4 of their series against the Golden State Warriors on April 27, 2014 before deciding against it. Instead, players protested Sterling's remarks by wearing their shirts inside-out in order "to obscure any team logo" during their pre-game huddle. The next day, April 28, 2014, players of the Miami Heat wore their uniform tops inside-out to show solidarity with the Clippers. LeBron James commented on the situation saying, "There's no room for Donald Sterling in the NBA.". The owner of the Miami Heat, Micky Arison, also called the allegations “appalling, offensive and very sad". NBA's Kevin Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kobe Bryant also condemned Sterling's remarks.

The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) cancelled its plans for the following month to award Sterling for a second time with its lifetime achievement award. President Barack Obama characterized the recording of Sterling as "incredibly offensive racist statements". Chumash Casino, the Clippers' most visible sponsor the prior four seasons, ended their relationship with the team, as did sponsors CarMax and Virgin America. Other sponsors and advertisers suspended their relationship with the Clippers while continuing to monitor the situation.

On April 29, 2014, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that Sterling had been banned from the league for life and fined $2.5 million, the maximum fine allowed by the NBA constitution. The ban prohibits Sterling from attending any NBA games, entering any Clippers facility, or participating in any business decisions for the Clippers or the NBA. The punishment was one of the most severe ever imposed on a professional sports owner. Moreover, Silver stated that he would move to force Sterling to sell the team, which would require the consent of three-quarters, or 22, of the other 29 NBA team owners. Silver left open the question of whether Sterling's wife might take over ownership and management of the Clippers.

On April 29, 2014, the University of California, Los Angeles announced that it was rejecting a $3 million gift from Sterling.

Privacy concerns have been raised by several commentators including Dennis Prager, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Discrimination lawsuits

In August 2006, the U.S. Department of Justice sued Sterling for housing discrimination in using race as a factor in filling some of his apartment buildings. The suit charged that Sterling refused to rent to non-Koreans in the Koreatown neighborhood and to African Americans in Beverly Hills. The suit alleges Sterling once said he did not like to rent to Hispanics because they "smoke, drink and just hang around the building," and that "Black tenants smell and attract vermin." In November 2009, ESPN reported that Sterling agreed to pay a fine of $2.73 million to settle claims brought by the Justice Department and Davin Day of Newport Beach that he engaged in discriminatory rental practices against Hispanics, blacks, and families with children. In addition, Sterling was also ordered to pay attorneys' fees and costs in that action of $4,923,554.75. In granting the attorney's fees and costs Judge Dale S. Fischer noted "Sterling's' scorched earth' litigation tactics, some of which are described by the Plaintiffs' counsel and some of which were observed by the Court. The Court has no difficulty accepting Plaintiffs' counsel's representations that the time required to be spent on this case was increased by defendant's counsel's often unacceptable, and sometimes outrageous conduct."

In February 2009, Sterling was sued by former longtime Clippers executive Elgin Baylor for employment discrimination on the basis of age and race. The lawsuit alleges Sterling told Baylor that he wanted to fill his team with "poor black boys from the South and a white head coach". The suit alleges that during negotiations for Danny Manning, Sterling said "I'm offering a lot of money for a poor black kid." The suit noted those comments while alleging "the Caucasian head coach was given a four-year, $22-million contract", but Baylor's salary had "been frozen at a comparatively paltry $350,000 since 2003".

Personal life

In 1955, Sterling married Rochelle ("Shelly") Stein, with whom he had three children: Scott Sterling, who died at the age of 32 from an apparent drug overdose, Chris Sterling, and Joanna Sterling. Joanna's husband, Eric Miller, is currently an executive with the team, serving as director of basketball administration.

Seeking the return of a house he had given, Sterling sued Alexandra Castro in 2003 after their relationship ended. Castro stated that Sterling consulted her on Clippers personnel decisions. Sterling described Castro as a prostitute. “It was purely sex for money,” he testified. The parties reached a confidential settlement out of court in 2004.

According to Los Angeles County records, Sterling has been a registered Republican since at least 1998. Sterling has also made campaign contributions to at least three Democratic candidates as well-- Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, former California Gov. Gray Davis and former U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley of New Jersey, a former basketball star.

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