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V. Stiviano: Donald Sterling Is Gay

Says she was his "beard."

Former Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s former personal assistant and rumored girlfriend is setting her side of the story straight in a new lawsuit against Sterling’s wife, Shelly. Stiviano filed the suit in response to allegations that she accepted lavish gifts from Sterling, who was no longer authorized to give them. Stiviano says that the gifts were given in exchange for her role as Sterling’s “beard.” She “believes that [Sterling] is a homosexual and enjoys sexual acts and or sexual congress with males,” according to the lawsuit, which is sure to point out that Stiviano was “not ever a sexual partner of Donald T. Sterling.”