Shelly Sterling said during an interview published Sunday that she plans to divorce her embattled husband, Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. However, she added that she’ll fight to keep her stake in the team if the National Basketball League owners vote to force him to sell the squad.
“To be honest with you, I’m wondering if a wife of one of the owners, and there’s 30 owners, did something like that, said those racial slurs, would they oust the husband?” Shelly Sterling told ABC News’ Barbara Walters. “Or would they leave the husband in?”
The NBA banned Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million last month after a recording of him making racist remarks surfaced online.
Sterling suggested to Walters that her estranged husband may have made the offensive comments because he was suffering from “the on-set of dementia.” She has not spoken to him about the future of their ownership in the team, but says she “would love him to” transfer his ownership to her.
“I don’t know why I should be punished for what his actions were,” she said.
[ABC]
- Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read
- Dubai's Real Estate Market is Booming. One Company is Making It Possible to Invest From Anywhere in the World
- How to Exercise When It's Really Hot Outside
- A New Documentary Sheds Light on a Pivotal Movement in Asian American History
- Far From Home: Afghan Women are Attempting to Build New Lives Abroad
- What Experts Say About How Valuable The Inflation Reduction Act's Green Subsidies Will Be
- What to Know About Long COVID in Kids
- Want to Do More Good? This Movement Might Have the Answer
