Mistress must give sugar daddy loot to former wife

16 April 2015 - 10:44 By Bloomberg

The estranged wife of a former owner of the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team, Donald Sterling, has been awarded the home he bought for his mistress and the value of the luxury cars he gave her. A California judge ordered the woman, V Stiviano, to give up ownership of the $1.8-million (R21.9-million) home, and to pay Shelly Sterling the $430,000 in cash she received from Sterling, and the value of three luxury cars, including a Ferrari and a Bentley, he gave her.The judge's tentative order, made public by Shelly Sterling's lawyers on Tuesday, could not immediately be confirmed in court records."Shelly is thrilled with the decision," attorney Pierce O'Donnell said in an e-mail.Shelly Sterling sued Stiviano in March last year, saying her husband had a sexual relationship with the woman and gave her the gifts, all of which came out of community property.Stiviano's lawyers asked the judge to dismiss the case, arguing that Shelly Sterling was complicit in her husband's extramarital affairs and could not ask for the return of valuables her husband freely gave away.Shelly Sterling won the right to sell the Clippers in August after she had her husband legally removed from their family trust on the grounds of mental incapacity.The record $2-billion sale of the team to billionaire Steve Ballmer capped a 14-week ordeal for the National Basketball Association that began after an audio recording of Donald Sterling telling Stiviano that he did not want her bringing black people to his team's games was posted on the internet. Sterling bought the team in 1981 for $12.5-million. ..

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