Clippers Owner Fined & Ousted

You've read all about this, but in case you've been hiding under a rock the last week or so, here's a synopsis. There's this old guy named Donald Sterling out in California who has mega millions of cash and happens to own a professional basketball team, the Los Angeles Clippers. He was on the phone with his former girlfriend, Ms. Vivian Stiviano (the hot chick above), and somebody recorded the conversation. TMZ (a celebrity news website) got hold of the tape and put it on their website. On the tape, Mr. Sterling said some pretty racist things to Ms. Stiviano and told her, "Don't come to my games. Don't bring black people, and don't come." Sterling is old enough to be Stiviano’s grandfather, and fabulously rich. Stiviano is strikingly beautiful in a Cosmo girl way, and her Mexican/African American background makes Sterling’s reported aversion to having her associate with African Americans all the more bizarre. They met, according to a lawsuit filed against Stiviano by Rochelle Sterling, Sterling’s wife of more than 50 years, at the 2010 Super Bowl. 

Mr. Sterling allegedly proceeded to shower Stiviano with a bunch of luxuries including a 2012 Ferrari, two Bentleys, a 2013 Range Rover, a $1.8 million home and $240,000 in living expenses. Rochelle must have gotten pretty pissed, alleging that all the stuff he gave to Vivian was paid for out of their community property funds (like, it's half hers according to California law), and she would like her half back, thank you very much. 

Interestingly, this wasn't the Sterlings’ first foray into return-to-giver litigation. A decade earlier, Mr. Sterling sued another former mistress for return of property. “It was purely sex for money, money for sex, sex for money, money for sex,” Sterling recounted in a deposition. “I wasn't giving her money without performing something for me. And if it wasn't good, I wouldn't give her anything.” His use of endearments, Sterling added, was meaningless: “If you are having sex with a woman you are paying for, you always call her honey because you can’t remember her name.” In the current lawsuit, Stiviano counters, through her lawyer, that Rochelle knew the score — that her husband was “infamous for his gold plated dalliances” — and ridicules the notion that her “feminine wiles . . . overpowered [his] iron will.” Oh, those feminine wiles. 

Some might say that Vivian entrapped Sterling, baiting him to say ever more offensive things. Donald Trump concluded the same, telling Fox News that Sterling “got set up by a very, very bad girlfriend.” Certainly, there is a whiff of premeditated manipulation. Tapes don’t get made — and leaked — by accident, although TMZ Sports reports that Sterling knew the conversation was being recorded, something Stiviano reportedly did as his “archivist.”

According to Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post, "What I heard on the tapes — and I’m not exactly predisposed to be sympathetic to Stiviano — was something more pathetic. Stiviano cajoles Sterling, fetches him juice, even as he berates her for failing to comprehend a 'culture' that will not accept her consorting with African Americans. 'Honey, I’m sorry,' she says. 'Is there anything that I can do to make you feel better? . . . Honey, if it makes you happy I will remove all of the black people from my Instagram.' Sterling refuses to be placated. He comes off like a cranky, indulged grandpa losing his marbles yet accustomed to getting his way. 'I don’t want to change. If my girl can’t do what I want, I don’t want the girl,' Sterling announces. 'I’ll find a girl that will do what I want.' He knows: Market forces operate in his favor. The supply of beautiful young women exceeds the demand from wealthy trolls."

The NBA has fined Mr. Sterling $2.5 million and banned him for life from the league. They also are taking steps to remove him as owner of the Clippers and force him to sell the team.

US Airways Hit With XXX Twitter Image

Elle Rafter was going to Portland, Oregon on US Air Flight 1787 to celebrate Spring Break. On the way, the plane stopped over in Charlotte where there was an hour delay. She was upset and wrote a very typical tweet aimed at US Airways: "Unhappy that 1787 sat for an hour on tarmac in CLT because overweight, resulting in an over hour late arrival in PDX." 

Elle told them she wanted some 'free stuff' because her vacation was off to a bad start. She also decided to attach to her tweet a pretty graphic image of herself and a toy Boeing 777 positioned in a rather unusual spot (see the above image). An official of the airline replied from the airline's Twitter account, 'We truly dislike delays too and are very sorry your flight was affected.' 

Well, it sounds like he didn't notice the image she attached, because he probably would have deleted it if he had. As it was, and because replies like this are automatically sent as a copy to the entire US Air Twitter customer base, the photograph of the nude Elle and her model plane also went out to all 418,000 US Air Twitter followers that afternoon. The image and tweet were online for around 22-minutes - which was enough time to cause quite a Twitter frenzy. 

US Airways has profusely apologized, saying "We apologize for an inappropriate image recently shared as a link in one of our responses. We've removed the tweet and are investigating." Oops!

Angelina Jolie 'Lookalike' Forces Cabbie Into Sex, Then Stabs Him Six Times

This guy is now the laughing stock of Romania.  Nicolae Stan, 31, drives a taxi in eastern Romania and back in 2012 he got a call to deliver a bottle of wine to a home in Tulcea. When he got there, the lady, Luminita Perijoc, 31, let him in and then apparently attacked the poor guy, demanding sex.  Luminita, a sex-crazed Angelina Jolie wannabe, forced poor Nicolae to do the deed with her twice, and then stabbed him six times because he wouldn't perform again. 

When she went to trial, Luminita told the Romanian court that she was on strong medication when she dragged Nicolae Stan into her apartment at knife point. She threatened him with a 4-inch blade as she undressed him, then demanded intercourse and oral sex. But when Stan wouldn't continue, she stabbed him six times. He managed to escape to her bathroom, where he called police. 

Luminita reportedly models herself after Angelina Jolie's portrayal of Lara Croft in several movies, initially claimed she was the victim. She was arrested and given a five-year jail sentence. It was reduced to four years when she claimed to be on medication at the time of the attack. Stan told the court that he would have tried to overpower his attacker, but worried that people would think he raped her. He says he tried to escape without hurting her. "I think she wasn't used to anyone saying no because she flew into a rage when I declined," he said. "When I refused she attacked me with a knife, and forced me to have sex with her but she still stabbed me." 

Stan is the married father of three, and says he's been handed a "life sentence" of teasing from people for turning down an Angelina Jolie lookalike in the first place. "They don't understand why I refused her, but they do not know what it is like to have a mad woman yelling at you at knifepoint," he said. "They look at her, then look at me and laugh. But I think anyone would find it impossible to perform with a knife at their throat even if they were with Miss Romania." I was just wondering how much a ticket to eastern Romania costs nowadays?