Ex-Clippers owner Sterling testifies girlfriend illegally put her name on $1.8M duplex deed

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FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2014, file photo, Shelly Sterling, wife of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, smiles during an interview in Los Angeles. Shelly Sterling is going after the .5 million in real estate and cars her husband lavished on his girlfriend, V. Stiviano, in a trial scheduled to begin Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in Los Angeles Superior Court. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The man who lost ownership of the LA Clippers because of racial remarks says the woman who recorded his offensive words got her name on a house he purchased because she’s black and Hispanic.

Donald Sterling testified Wednesday in a Los Angeles court during his wife’s lawsuit that claims he was deceived into lavishing V. Stiviano with millions of dollars in gifts.

Sterling says he paid for Stiviano’s $1.8 million duplex because she’s poor and her family is on welfare.

Sterling noted that Stiviano is black and Hispanic, and he says she befriended a Hispanic bank employee and illegally got her name on a check for the house that should belong to him.

Shelly Sterling seeks $3.6 million her husband gave the younger woman that she says was her joint property.

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