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Donald Sterling occupe actuellement le rang #908 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur immobilier). Fortune nette estimée : $4.8 B (+$118 sur 24h).
Donald Sterling, born Donald Tokowitz to Jewish immigrants, built a fortune largely by buying down-at-the-heels apartment buildings in Los Angeles.
Sterling owned the Los Angeles Clippers for 33 years; his wife Shelly sold in 2014 after a tape of his racist remarks to his then-mistress surfaced.
The Chicago-born billionaire bought the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million when the team was based in San Diego. It was sold for $2 billion.
Besides a swath of apartments in L.A.'s Westside and Koreatown, he also owns the Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel.
Before he purchased his first West Hollywood property, Sterling was a successful trial lawyer.
In 2006, Sterling was sued by the Department of Justice on the charge of refusing to rent to African-Americans.
Following Sterling's racist remarks. UCLA rejected his $3 million pledge to support basic kidney research at the school's division of nephrology.