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 kept the house.
Clippers owner Donald Sterling is under fire again. (AP Photo)
Castro’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) … ”
Additionally, attorney Raymond Hersh, who formerly represented Castro, said in a deposition about the relationship between his client and the Clippers owner, “she cooked, drove, cleaned, was consulted on remodeling apartments, who went to dinner with agents, who should be hired—she didn’t make the decision, she said, but she was consulted about who to hire in the Clipper organization and what should be done, what he was thinking.”
Sterling, under oath in his 2003 case, said Castro was “a prostitute … she was a total freak and a piece of trash … It was purely sex for money, money for sex, sex for money, money for sex. The girl was providing sex for money. … I probably didn’t tell my wife … maybe I did something morally wrong.”
Sterling’s reputation is that of one of the worst owners in all of sports. Revelations such as this will only exacerbate that.
Source: AOL Sporting News
