article_snippet.sent:  V.Stiviano, the alleged mistress of the Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who he showered with expensive gifts, has been ordered to pay he wife $2.6million.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers for Shelly Sterling had claimed that money used to buy Stiviano a house, luxury cars and stocks was
article_snippet.sent: Stiviano's lawyer had argued that the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated and that Shelly Sterling couldn't seek the gifts from a third party.
article_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling Shelly Sterling has been awarded nearly all of the $3 million Shelly Sterling had sought to be returned from V. Stiviano, who had argued that the gifts were made when Shelly Sterling was separated from his wife .
article_snippet.sent: Shelly SterlingShelly Sterling's lawyers used other recordings to show Shelly Sterling bought Stiviano a house, a Ferrari and other things.
article_snippet.sent: During the course of their 2 1/2 years together, Shelly Sterling gave Shelly Sterling a Ferrari, a Bentley and a Range Rover, and paid the lion's share of a $1.8 million duplex.
article_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling testified that Shelly Sterling paid for the entire house, though Stiviano said Stiviano had contributed an unknown amount of money given to Stiviano in small bills by family members that Stiviano saved in a bedroom drawer.
article_snippet.sent: During the course of their 2 1/2 years together, Shelly Sterling had given Stiviano a Ferrari, a Bentley and a Range Rover, and paid the lion's share of a $1.8 million duplex .
article_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling said Stiviano hadn't contributed '50 cents' to the entire house and, noting that Stiviano is part black and Hispanic, said Stiviano illegally got Stiviano name inserted into escrow documents by befriending Hispanic bank and escrow employees.
article_snippet.sent: Testimony in Los Angeles Superior Court wasn't as clear-cut even after Shelly Sterling's lawyers went to great lengths to show that checks Shelly Sterling drew from Shelly Sterling real estate business ended up in accounts that financed most of Stiviano's $1.8 million Spanish-style duplex near Beverly Hills.
article_snippet.sent: While an accountant for Shelly Sterling conservatively estimated that Stiviano got more than $3.6 million in Shelly Sterling gifts that included a Ferrari and Paris shopping spree, O'Donnell said O'Donnell would only seek return of the house and more than $1 million in cash, saying the lower figure lined up with Stiviano's own admissions on the witness stand, depositions and court filings.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Richard Fruin Jr had noted earlier that there was no clear documentation that funds went from the Sterling family's real estate company to Stiviano's bank accounts.
article_snippet.sent: The judge allowed her testimony as Stiviano's lawyer tried to show where large, unexplained checks may have gone from Shelly Sterling's real estate company that Stiviano's lawyer claims were used to pay for a $1.8million duplex, luxury cars, jewelry and shopping sprees for Stiviano Sterling from the league for life asserts was his mistress.
article_snippet.sent: Stiviano said Stiviano saw cashier's checks given to the man for $800,000 for a 'so-called business deal' involving a property in Los Angeles and a check for $75,000 to reimburse the man for the Dubai travel.
article_snippet.sent: Stiviano couldn't say if any of that money ended up in accounts identified as sources for the home purchase.
article_snippet.sent: Stiviano has denied that those were Stiviano bank accounts, and Shelly Sterling's lawyers couldn't make that connection.
highlights_snippet.sent: Shelly Sterling lawyers successfully argued that money used to buy V. Stiviano a house, luxury cars and stocks was Shelly Sterling community property .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Stiviano's lawyer had argued the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated .
  