Donald Sterling biography
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Donald Tokowitz Sterling (born Donald Tokowitz) is an American business magnate and former attorney. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of 2014, the team is valued at $575 million by Forbes magazine, ranking them eighteenth out of thirty teams. At 33 seasons of ownership (1981 to present), Sterling has been the longest-tenured owner in the NBA since the death of Lakers majority owner Jerry Buss on February 18, 2013.
Donald Tokowitz (legally added Sterling as his last name as an adult) was born in 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, and he and his family moved to the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, when he was two years old. His parents, Susan and Mickey, were Jewish immigrants.He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, where he was on the school's gymnastics team and served as class president; he graduated in 1952. He next attended California State University, Los Angeles (Class of 1956) and Southwestern University School of Law (Class of 1960) in Los Angeles.
Starting in 1961, Sterling began to make his career as a divorce and personal injury attorney. Having no chance at working for most prestigious law firms, he built an independent practice and claimed that he tried 10,000 cases. His biggest ventures were in real estate, which he began when he purchased a 26-unit apartment building in Beverly Hills.
Donald Sterling has purchased thousands of apartments primarily in Los
Angeles over the past several decades. He also owns properties in Orange
County, San Diego and Las Vegas and advertises heavily in the L.A.
Times. Sterling bought the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team in 1981
for $12 million; Forbes now values the team at $430 million. In late
2012 a Los Angeles jury ordered Sterling to pay $17.3
million in a lawsuit filed by an actress, Robyn Cohen, who lost most of
her belongings in a fire at a West Hollywood apartment building
Sterling owns.
source : wikipedia.org, Forbes.com
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