Legal troubles continue to mount for former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. A new woman Maiko Maya King has come forward claiming to have had a romantic and professional relationship with Sterling from 2005-2011. King is now suing Sterling claiming he fired her after she rejected his racist and sexual taunts.
King was reportedly married with two children when she met Sterling in 2005 but still entered into a romantic relationship with the ousted owner. He supported her financially while she worked for his foundation. The two then broke up in 2011 but King kept in contact with Sterling and reached out to him again in 2013 when her father passed away. She says they met in person and Sterling offered her a job working in marketing for the Clippers. He later changed the job offer in Dec. 2013 and offered King a job as his personal caretaker/assistant in which she would be paid $10,000 a month, given a car and home, and receive a $100,000 bonus if she showed loyalty to him.
King says that Sterling “dangled” and withheld the money if she wouldn’t have sex with him, perform other sexual acts and bring other people in. He indicated that he was bored with V. Stiviano and wanted King to “get him off.” Like Stiviano King alleges that Sterling got upset when she brought a black friend to the Clippers game and often made racist comments such as:
– “How could you be married to a black man?”
– “Why would you bring black people into the world?”
– “I want to take you out of the black world and put you into the white world”; when they would fight he told her to “move back to the ghetto with a black man.”
– “Black people do not take care of their children. All they do is sit at home and smoke dope.”
– “Mexicans just do drive-by shootings.”
King claims that Sterling fired her on May 7, 2014 when she protested his racist and sexual comments. Given Sterling’s history it’s easy to believe the women’s claims but the timing of the suit and the fact that they had a romantic relationship makes the case very sketchy. Sterling’s lawyer Bobby Samini has denied all the claims saying ”anyone objectively reviewing Ms. King’s claims will have no doubt that they are without merit.”