LA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Tells GF, ‘Do not bring black people to my games’

Donald Sterling was recorded telling off his girlfriend, who goes by V. Stiviano, that he doesn’t want her bringing any black people to his team’s basketball games.

‘You can sleep with (black people). You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that… and not to bring them to my games,’ Sterling is heard saying on a tape obtained by TMZ.

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Damning recording: Donald Sterling (center) can be heard telling his girlfriend V. Stiviano (to his right) not to bring black people to Clippers games

The spat reportedly started when Stiviano, who is Mexican and African American, posted a photo of herself and Magic Johnson on her Instagram page.

‘It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?’ Sterling is heard saying.

‘I’m just saying, in your lousy f******* Instagrams, you don’t have to have yourself with, walking with black people.

‘Don’t put him (Johnson) on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.’

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Racist history: Clippers Owner Donald Sterling who has twice been sued for refusing to rent apartments to minorities, is seen shaking hands with Reggie Evans of the Brooklyn Nets in 2024

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Hypocritical: Sterling told his girlfriend V. Stiviano (pictured), who is Mexican and African-American, that she can sleep with black people but shouldn’t bring them to Clippers games

The photo with Johnson has reportedly been taken down and Stiviano has locked it so that her Instagram feed is private.

She and Sterling, who is still legally married but has been separated from his wife *****y for years, appear to have an open relationship.

At several points on the tape, the 81-year-old billionaire claims that he is not racist but does not understand why his girlfriend wants to publicise her relationships with people of color.

This is not the first time that Sterling has been accused of being racist.

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Estranged: Donald Sterling is still married to wife *****y but the pair have been separated for years

He was sued twice by the federal government after refusing to rent apartments to minorities.

In the 2024 case, he was ordered to pay a $2.73million fine to settle.

In a 2024 case, he was accused of refusing to rent to non-Koreans when it came to a property in Koreatown and refused African American tenants for a property in Beverly Hills.

He was reportedly accused of saying that he wouldn’t rent to Hispanics because they ‘smoke, drink and just hang around the building’.

The suit also accused Sterling of saying ‘Black tenants smell and attract vermin’.

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