There’s so many different things that we’re learning as this story develops. Over the weekend everyone was outraged as tapes were leaked of Donald Sterling allegedly making horrible racists comments. So how did these tapes leak (was it his mistress?) and did he know he was being recorded?! The answer may surprise you. Check it out…
Via TMZ:
Donald Sterling was AWARE he was being taped during the conversation that was posted on TMZ
Sports, in which the L.A. Clippers owner went on a racial rant … so claims the woman who taped him.
A source connected with V. Stiviano tells TMZ Sports … the full conversation lasted approximately 1 hour. We’re told Stiviano insists it was clear to Sterling at the beginning of the conversation he was being recorded.
What’s more … our sources say Stiviano routinely recorded her conversations with Sterling as HIS “archivist.” And what’s more … she would regularly play the tapes back to him because he would often forget what he had said.
Our sources say sometime after the tape was recorded on April 9 … Stiviano and Sterling got in an argument because he wanted her to sign a confidentiality agreement … which she would not. We’re told he then denied ever making the racist statements on the tape, so she played the entire tape for back him … before it was ever posted on TMZ Sports.
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More via BuzzFeed:
A lawyer representing Donald Sterling’s girlfriend, known as V. Stiviano, has said the recording is legitimate and denied her involvement in its release.
“This office understands that the currently released audio tape of approximately 15 minutes is a portion of approximately one (1) hour of overall audio recording of Mr. Donald T. Sterling and Ms. Stiviano, and is in fact legitimate,” said Mac E. Nehoray of the Nehoray Legal Group.
He added, “Ms. Stiviano did not release the tape(s) to any news media.”
