Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling reportedly claims he made his now-infamous racist comments to his personal assistant V. Stiviano because he was jealous that she was being courted by black men.
“The girl is black. I like her,” Sterling said in an audio recording, which was obtained by Radar Online and published Friday. “I’m jealous that she’s with other black guys. I want her. So what the hell. Can I in private tell her, ‘I don’t want you to be with anybody?’ Am I a person? Do I have freedom of speech?”
The tape of Sterling explaining the context behind his remarks is the second recording of the Clippers owner that Radar has released in as many days. In audio released Thursday, Sterling pushed back against the idea of selling his team, even though he is banned for life from the NBA, and denied that he was a racist.
In the latest recording, Sterling also expressed surprise that Stiviano would tape their private conversation.
“I’m trying to have sex with her. I’m trying to play with her,” he says. “You know, if you’re trying to have sex with a girl and you’re talking to her privately, you don’t think anybody’s there. You may say anything in the world, what difference does it make?”
“Then if the girl tapes it and releases it, my God, it’s awful,” he added.
Stiviano’s lawyer has said his client never had a sexual or romantic relationship with Sterling.
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Man, remember when being a billionaire was enough to open a woman’s legs?
He needs to work on his pillow talk.
Boy, he’s just endlessly disgusting, isn’t he?
Yes. So he thought saying this would earn him sympathy with the public? (probably not - just wants to keep his team and not pay $100 million in capital gains tax when he sells it)
If his claim is true, it’s twice as sad. Nice pickup line though: you can sleep with a celebrity survivor of HIV, but just don’t take a picture.