Donald Sterling is going on a litigation spree.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver fined the former Los Angeles Clippers owner $2.5 million and banned him from the league for life after TMZ published audio recordings of Sterling telling alleged mistress V. Stiviano not to associate with black people or bring them to Clippers games. And now, Sterling is suing both TMZ and Stiviano over the release of his racist rant.
Sterling filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday accusing the two parties of violating his privacy and causing damage on a “scale of unparalleled and unprecedented magnitude,” The Associated Press reported Monday. Sterling was forced to sell the Clippers, and his estranged wife Shelley, from whom he recently filed for divorce, successfully removed him from the family trust and sold the team to Steve Ballmer for a record $2 billion.
“It’s ridiculous if he says he was damaged by it when he made $2 billion,” said Mac Nehoray, an attorney who represented Stiviano in a previous lawsuit. “I think he’s just a litigious person. Unless he has something going on in the public eye, he can’t exist.”
Sterling also is suing Shelley Sterling, the NBA and two doctors who examined him, claiming they conspired to remove him from the team by showing he had dementia and was unfit to run his business.
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