Real estate magnate. Paid $12.5M for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1981.
For the good part of a week in April 2014, controversy stormed after a recording surfaced where Sterling demanded his half-black girlfriend not bring her black friends to Clippers games (though it was acceptable if she slept with them). On 29 April 2014, following a thorough investigation NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling for life from the NBA, fined him the maximum amount of $2.5M, and initiated proceedings to force the sale of the team. Sterling admitted it was his voice on the recording.
[1] 1933 or 1934. No authoritative source presently exists for an exact date.
Father: Mickey Tokowitz
Mother: Susan
Wife: Rochelle Stein ("Shelly", m. 1957, separated, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Chris
Daughter: Joanna
Son: Scott (d. 1-Jan-2013 drug overdose)
Girlfriend: Vivian Stiviano ("V. Stiviano", fashion model)
High School: Theodore Roosevelt High School, Los Angeles, CA (1952)
University: BA, California State University Los Angeles (1956)
Law School: JD, Southwestern Law School (1960)
Changed Name to "Donald Tokowitz Sterling"
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