During a phone call with a close friend in the wake of the racism scandal that has rocked American basketball, Sterling speaks candidly about his true feelings towards his former girlfriend V. Stiviano. The secret recordings were made by Sterling’s long time friend, a black hip hop artist called Maserati, just four or five days after the scandal broke. They paint a very different picture to that presented to CNN host Anderson Cooper in an interview on Monday night. That was one of Donald Sterling, billionaire, the powerful and defiant owner of one of the most famous basketball teams in America. Instead, the tapes present him as an old man, confused, shocked and ’embarrassed’ that his life’s work has brought so low by his weakness for a young woman who taped his private conversations as he was desperately trying to bed her