Woman behind Clippers scandal calls team owner 'father figure'

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The woman who recorded Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist remarks that got him banned from the NBA insisted on Wednesday she was never his mistress but rather an employee, friend and caretaker who saw him as a "father figure." Appearing on the nationally syndicated "Dr. Phil" television show, the woman, V. Stiviano, 31, denied repeatedly and emphatically that she had ever had been physically intimate with the 80-year-old billionaire. "I have never had any sexual relations ... any kind of sexual contact with Mr. Sterling whatsoever," she said. I looked at him as a father figure. According to Stiviano, it was her role as Sterling's secretary and a personal life coach of sorts that led to the racially charged scandal that has engulfed the Clippers and the National Basketball Association.

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