Hell hath no fury like a former Los Angeles Clippers owner's wife scorned.
TMZ Sports reported Thursday that Shelly Sterling, estranged wife of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling, earned a $2.6 million settlement against V. Stiviano, Donald's alleged girlfriend and former archivist.
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Because Donald still was married to Shelly when he started lavishing Stiviano with gifts, a jugde ordered that he didn't have any right to give Stiviano anything without Shelly's consent because the money he spent also belonged to Shelly.
TMZ Sports reported that Sterling's gifts included a duplex, a Bentley, a Range Rover and a Ferrari, which totaled the $2.6 million.
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Another TMZ report said that Shelly's suit was done completely out of revenge against Stiviano.
"Our sources say ... Shelly was 'out for blood' from the start -- and really wanted to put the screws to Stiviano for all the crap she put her family through," TMZ Sports reported.
It was Stiviano's recorded conversation with Sterling in April of 2014 that led to Sterling's lifetime ban from the NBA and the forced sale of the Clippers to new owner Steve Ballmer for $2.1 billion. In the recording, Sterling made racist comments about Stiviano associating with black people and not wanting Stiviano to invite black people to attend Clippers games.
He mentioned Magic Johnson by name.
Stiviano claimed a friend got a hold the recording and leaked it to TMZ.
She also refuted reports that she was his girlfriend, saying she was never intimate with Sterling as he had claimed.
The settlement mandates that Stiviano hand over the keys to the $1.8 million condo and refund $800,000 in cash to Shelly Sterling.
Sterling said she plans to give all the money to charity.
Stiviano "tried in vain to convince the judge Donald and Shelly were separated at the time she scored the goods, so he had every right to shell out the cash," TMZ reported. "The judge begged to differ, saying Donald had no right to use the Sterling money to fund V.'s lifestyle."
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