Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has kept quiet since the NBA banned him for life for making racist comments during an argument with his girlfriend. But the New York City-based luxury magazine DuJour claims that the 80-year-old Sterling offered a few words about the situation to its CEO, Jason Binn.
“I wish I had just paid her off,” Sterling told DuJour, referring to his girlfriend V. Stiviano, who got his racist comments on tape.
That’s it, an eight word quote. In a short blog post attributed to the editors of the magazine, DuJour said that Sterling was limiting himself to interviews with the NBA and ABC’s Barbara Walters.
DuJour, which publishes a quarterly print magazine and a monthly digital magazine, describes itself as aimed at “select high-net-worth consumers.”
Last Friday, TMZ published an audio recording of Sterling arguing with Stiviano, and telling her not to bring black people to his games. An attorney representing Stiviano told the Associated Press on Thursday that Stiviano recorded the conversation and then sent two portions of it to a friend, who released it without her permission.
On Tuesday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that Sterling had been banned by the league and fined $2.5 million. Silver also said he would urge the league’s owners to force Sterling to sell the Clippers.
Because that’s how he’s been getting away with so much for so long…paying people to smile, nod, play along and look the other way. To hell with how offensive his actions and comments are, it would have just been better if he had simply paid her off.
This guy is so disgusting.
"I wish I had just paid her off,”
Oh, he called her bluff, eh? Oh, he said “Publish and Be Damned” did he? He really thought himself invulnerable to all those ‘little people.’
and now he has told us about his cancer (which I would not wish on even him) so we can all find some sort of sympathy.
Ugh!
I’m just cynical enough to think that if he’s this big mouthed about how good he is at paying people off…do we know he didn’t pay off a doctor to come up with the cancer diagnosis?
Or…he’s had a mild form of it he’s been receiving treatment for on/off for years, but is only NOW revealing it to try and shift the heat away?
I mean, this man has been a douchy menace to society for 30 years. He’s been a spoiled self involved jackass who thinks money can buy him anything - or anyone - he wants, and can buy people off anytime he wants. I put nothing past him.
I don’t wish cancer on anyone. But this guy doesn’t get sympathy from me for the simple reason he could never be bothered to give it to anyone like you or me.
“…the 80 year old…”
Life was so much simpler in 1934.
Pure class.
It’s hard to feel any kind of sympathy for Stiviano, though.
I’d be willing to bet that she would have preferred that he had paid her off as well.
Why else would anyone subject oneself to the company of such a loathsome individual?