The only thing surprising about the filing was that it took this long. The move comes weeks before the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary.
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Sterling was banned from the NBA after racist comments he made in a phone a phone conversation with his former mistress V. Stiviano surfaced. Stiviano, who recorded the conversation, still professed love for the 81-year-old Sterling, going as far as to call Shelly Sterling “evil.” Stiviano was ordered by a judge to pay Shelly Sterling $2.6 million for gifts given to her by Donald Sterling.
Shelly Sterling has referred to her husband as a “pig” and a judge ruled last summer that she acted properly in removing her husband as a trustee and negotiating the sale of the Clippers to Steve Ballmer for a record $2 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Court papers cite the couple’s reason for divorce as “irreconcilable differences.”
