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Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling watches a game in 2008.
The body of Scott Sterling, son of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, was found late Tuesday at the family's home in Malibu.
Homicide detectives responded to the beachfront residence at about 11:30 p.m. after receiving a call for a welfare check at Malibu Beach Villas. The caller told responding Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies he had not heard from Scott Sterling, 32, for "several days."
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Sterling was pronounced dead at the location, but a cause of death was not immediately available from the coroner's office. Sterling died of an "apparent drug overdose," according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
A coroner's van was at the residence early Wednesday, and an autopsy will be conducted.
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Donald Sterling, who acquired the Clippers in 1981, is among the longest-tenured NBA owners. The team was located in San Diego at the time, and Sterling relocated the franchise to Los Angeles in 1984.
Sterling has homes in Malibu and Beverly Hills, according to the Clippers website. Police interviewed Scott Sterling after responding to the Beverly Hills home in 1999 for a report of a shooting, but prosecutors did not file charges.
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This is your brain on drugs. D.E.A.D. One more unnecessary weak human culled from the herd.
All of you know that if California didn't have such strict gun laws this kind of thing would have never occured. WAKE UP AMERICA, we have a right to arm and defend ourselfs against these kinds of attacks
What does a drug overdose have to do with gun laws dummy?
two dogs, this common denominator is she is a Troll.
Drug overdose. Although additional information will dribble out, there's no need to go to court on this one. It's a slam dunk.
What family has not been effected by drugs or alcohol abuse..... please be nice.
Money doesn't always buy happiness.
Deborah,
Give me a thousand dollars and watch me smile. ;)
Thanks again to OBAMUNISM and the liberal Pelosi machine that glorifies this behavior.
Wow, you are so dumb!
Such a derailing troll and the Viv has been rolling for a week with impunity. Tyler you out there?
Oh please, stop the political scapegoating!
These rich kids overdosing on money daddy gave them from their Bush tax cuts. Doesn't that sound just as dumb?
I don't think this had anything to do with politics. Republicans snort just as much as Democrats, but they just don't admit it.
You both should be ashamed of yourselves!
probably a blood clot. a real one not the kind hillary clinton has.
Oh, Henry! So wonderful to hear you're a medical doctor who has been treating Mrs. Clinton. That on top of being an expert in every other field. Why are you wasting time at home? The nation needs you in D.C. to diagnose and cure everything that's wrong with everyone there...
Please post your medical credentials that support your post. Actually, I think you are just full of horse crap and your brain runs on methane.
agreed Henry
It forever amazes me that these lowly people who claim to believe so fervently in a final judgement will make such absurd statements as if there will never be any consequences for their words. Makes me wish there were a literal heaven and hell!
This is another case that if I responded with the words I would like to use I might be banned for life from Newsvine. But I will simply report this as off-topic and have it deleted.
Where did you Doctrine from? Henry show a little class guy, why be disrespectful?
Wealth does not buy life. Malibu beach house does not looks so good now.
Ever seena pissed off person on a jetski? Ever seen a homeless person skipping? Money doesn't solve everything nut it makes life alot more fun.
And the message is stay in the middle of the school of fish. The outside ones too poor or too rich get eaten.
Too bad it wasn't Dr. Jim or Vivian. The world would be a better place if it had been.
Don't forget about Henry, he's a super doctor!
I agree with everyone so far
On the flip side, nobody agrees with you, or knows what the hell you're talking about half of the time.
That's good because everyone thinks you're an imbecile.
agreed
This is news why? Just another idiot that took care of himself with too much enjoyment. Good ridens.
Karma is a ugly thing. He got away with murder when he was 19 because of his family's wealth. If he had been forced to pay for his crime then, he may have taken the opportunity to turn his life around but since he was allowed to get away with murder he probably was living the life of a spoiled rich kid that thought he was invincible. Well death came knocking and he found out he wasn't invincible and death doesn't care about your familiy's wealth. My condolences to his family but also to the family of the young man he killed that didn't get justice.
I don't know the story behind the "shooting" mentioned in the article, but IF the son did kill someone, perhaps that had something to do with the drug use. And perhaps the drug overdose was not accidental. Even someone spoiled by his parents and by money can feel remorse. We'll probably never know what happened, but often people who abuse drugs/alcohol are sad, depressed or conflicted folks.
As soon as I read the head line I immediately guessed an OD, "Son of" anything owner tied into a death unfortunately usually has something to do with drugs & or alcohol. For me, if my dad (R.I.P.) was the owner of anything! I would have met that same sort of fate except for me it would have been an AOD (Alcohol Over Dose) as I call it, its the easy money from dad & no need to really work or go to school that does these poor people in.
To Warren Buffett the perfect amount to leave children is "enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing."
This guy has uncommonly normal children too.
Jm,Warren Buffett has my highest admiration for his parenting skills.
Were the needle and pipe next to the bed???
In the print version of the Los Angeles Times, a day almost never goes by without an ad from Sterling. When he's not doling out honorifics to local important people, he's advertising his collection of luxury high rise condos and beachfront properties, or trumpeting the opening of a summer camp for kids with his name splashed all over it.
It's simultaneously a boon to many nonprofit groups here in L.A. and relentless self promotion. It is just this kind of being swept up in the glory of being an important person, this hubris, that makes a person overlook the simple things, like your kid having a drug problem that kills him.
Beware of celebrity. Beware of importance. A price is almost always exacted.
Rick James said it best. "Cocaine is a hell of a drug!"
A lot of heartless comments today. RIP to Scott Sterling and condolences to his loved ones.
500,000 Americans killed by accidental rx drug overdoses since 1997. 500,000! Not from AIDS. Not from guns. Not in Iraq or Afghanistan. An under the radar holocaust because the powers that be want it that way. You barely hear about the celebrities and the prominent. Whitney Houston, Stallone's son, etc. 40,000 beloved sons and daughters killed by Big Pharma's poison pills in 2011. Saint Obama took a $500,000 campaign contribution from the CEO bundler for Pfizer. Partisans don't get upset. Bush was bought and paid for by the drug companies too. Bush' prescription drug program and Obamacare are payoffs to Big Pharma. The FDA is a revolving door employment joke for drug company personnel. The media is in Big Pharma's pocket too. Wouldn't want to lose those 24/7 rx drug commercials. Big Pharma is the greatest threat to Americans' life, health and liberty ever. Beware the medical industrial complex.