The wife of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling says that they have been estranged for the past year and has debated formally filing the divorce papers. 'I don't love him. I pity him and I feel sorry for him,' Shelly Sterling said in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters that will air in full Monday evening. The timeline of their relationship remains murky, because while the 79-year-old said that she and her 81-year-old husband have only been estranged for a year, she has been thinking about divorce for much longer. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Shocked: Shelley Sterling says she could not believe what she was hearing the first time she listened to the recordings
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Shelly Sterling said her husband Donald Sterling insisted he does not remember making the remarks heard on the tapes made public
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She believes his failure to recall those conversations is an early sign his mind is fading in his old age
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She also said she will eventually divorce him but fight for her 50 per cent ownership stake in the team if he is forced to sell
Donald Sterling's net worth is estimated to be somewhere around $1.9billion and he bought the LA Clippers in 1981 but now @placeholder legally owns half of the team.