nydailynews | Eighty-year-old rich man dictates life's terms to younger woman, tells
her what she can and cannot do. Sex with black men? OK. Hanging out
publicly with black men? Not OK.
Ick. Nobody seems to mind that part of the tape, those paternalistic,
sexist ramblings. And none of it should come as a surprise, because
Sterling's disrespect for women, verging on the criminal, has been on
display and purposefully ignored for more than a decade. In 2003, he
sued a mistress, Alexandra Castro, demanding back property she claimed
he'd given her. In a deposition obtained and made public by
TheSmokingGun.com back in August, 2004, Sterling's graphic, repulsive
testimony was shockingly Neanderthal — and earned him no suspension from
David Stern.
In excerpts from that two-day pretrial deposition, Sterling talks about
how he enjoyed having his feet licked and toes sucked. And he goes a
lot further:
"The girl was providing sex for money," Sterling said. "She was
exciting. It was exciting. I have to tell you, and it was good. And it
was delicious, and it was the best of the best. And maybe I morally did
something wrong… I probably didn't tell my wife."
There are also parts of his testimony in which his total disdain for women is horribly apparent:
"The girl always cried, never had any money, always talked about sex,
24 hours a day, when she talked to me, talked about sex and how I was so
cheap. She just stripped every time you saw the woman. I have never
seen anything like it in my life.
"I wouldn't have a child and certainly not with that piece of trash.
Come on. This girl is the lowest form… She is a freak. A total freak…
She would say anything I asked her to say, and I would say anything she
asked me to say. It was purely sex for money, money for sex, sex for
money, money for sex."
At one point, Sterling was asked whether he called Castro, "honey."
"I call everybody (that)," he said. "Every secretary is honey. I'm a
very flowery man. If you are having sex with a woman you are paying for,
you always call her honey because you can't remember her name."
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