Donald Sterling Solicited Prostitute’s Personnel Opinions

[rondohondo]

In support of its landmark 2009 discrimination case against current NBA team owner Donald Sterling, the U.S. Dept. of Justice (DOJ) submitted to federal court a sworn statement by Alexandra Castro.


Castro, who was a past acquaintance of the NBA owner, included this characterization of her relationship with Sterling in her 2003 statement:

    “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) … “

In the same case United States Attorneys also submitted a deposition of attorney Raymond Hersh, a founding partner of Los Angeles law firm Hersh, Mannis & Bogen who formerly represented Castro. His sworn testimony included the following about Castro’s relationship with Sterling:

    “They had a relationship where 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.”

So who is Alexandra Castro and why was Donald Sterling soliciting her opinions on player salaries and his next head coach hire for the Clippers?

In a 2003 sworn deposition, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling described Alexandra Castro under oath as ..

    “.. a prostitute … she was a total freak and a piece of trash … “

In the same deposition Sterling described, while under penalty of perjury, his relationship with Castro ..

    “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.”

During what court documents indicate was a relationship between Sterling and Castro from 1999-2002, the Los Angeles Clippers owner voluntarily transferred the title of a Beverly Hills home he owned to Castro and her mother.

After Castro spurned Sterling, ending their relationship, the Los Angeles NBA team team owner filed a lawsuit to get the house back.

The ensuing legal dispute, which effectively forced Castro to make sworn court statements about their relationship in defending herself against the billionaire tycoon’s litigation, ultimately resulted in her retaining the home.

Those same sworn statements about Sterling in Castro’s court response to his 2003 lawsuit were later used against the Los Angeles Clippers owner by the Dept. of Justice in the aforementioned federal discrimination case that cost the NBA team owner nearly $3 million.

And it was, again, those same sworn statements about Sterling in Castro’s court responses to his 2003 lawsuit that also revealed to NBA Commissioner David Stern that one of the league’s club owners solicited opinions on team personnel matters from a woman he claimed, under oath, was “a prostitute …  total freak and a piece of trash.”

At least if you believe the United States Department of Justice.

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sterling-solicited-prostitutes-personnel-opinions-29983

So that's why the clippers have sucked all these years, he was getting personnel advice from hookers  

What a classy guy that Sterling is .....

[Atzar]

I don't think there's anybody in the game of basketball right now who I despise more than Donald Sterling.  Just an utter train wreck of a human being.

[cman88]

and yet somehow he ended up landing CP3...I guess a blind squirrell finds a nut once in awhile

[ManUp]

Sterling is in a class all his own.

[Bean_town fan]

He is an all mighty piece of work, an utterly poor excuse for a human being. How is this man in charge of a sports franchise?

[Adelaide Celt]

He is an all mighty piece of work, an utterly poor excuse for a human being. How is this man in charge of a sports franchise?

Just the question I was going to ask! I guess money talks and it has to talk very loudly in deviant Donald's case.

[Eja117]

Oh come on. Don't even tell me you don't talk basketball with hookers. It's what I do. I'm like "How much?" and they're usually like "Well. Are we gonna talk about East coast teams like the Celts and Heat or are we talking about Euro teams like Maccabi Tel Aviv, cause that'll cost you more." and I'm all like "Surprise me".

Right?

I mean I bring my cars to get worked on by strippers, and I get my medical advice from Geishas. I have to sit there a while in the waiting room, and then they're like "Next" and they check out my knee and suggest advil or whatnot. Then there's a bordello I know down in New Orleans that gives me stock tips.  This is how guys like Donald Sterling and me operate. Oh yeah. And I just sued Clipper EJA

[LooseCannon]

The relationship between Sterling and Castro was from 1999 to 2002.

Here is the Clippers record around that time:

98-99: 9-41
99-00: 15-67
00-01: 31-51
01-02: 39-43
02-03: 27-55

So, the team improves while he was in a relationship with the woman and then declines after the relationship is over.  I guess Sterling must have found a smarter prostitute this season.

[European NBA fan]

The relationship between Sterling and Castro was from 1999 to 2002.

Here is the Clippers record around that time:

98-99: 9-41
99-00: 15-67
00-01: 31-51
01-02: 39-43
02-03: 27-55

So, the team improves while he was in a relationship with the woman and then declines after the relationship is over.  I guess Sterling must have found a smarter prostitute this season.

Yeah, the real problem was that Castro was the brain trust of that operation 

[relja]

I don't know, but the Clippers will always suck.