Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling solicited advice on the team’s basketball operations from a woman he described as a prostitute, according to court documents cited by Sports By Brooks.
As part of its 2009 discrimination case against Sterling, the U.S. Department of Justice filed documents from an unrelated case that contained testimony from Alexandra Castro, an acquaintance of Sterling’s.
The unrelated case in 2003 involved Sterling suing Castro to get a house he gave to her back. Sterling sued after Castro ended their relationship, but Castro won the case and keptCastro’s statement read, in part,
“During our relationship, Mr. Sterling consulted me on issues he was considering almost every day including, among others, whether he should hire Alvin Gentry to coach the Los Angeles Clippers (although I had no experience in such matters), how he should respond to requests by players for the Los Angeles Clippers for increases in their compensation (Mr. Sterling and I often had dinner at the Arena Club with agents for a number of players) ... ”
the house.
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