Woman sues NYC for $10 million claiming her interest in LA Clippers was diagnosed as paranoid behavior: Report

A woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit after claiming she was held against her will held by a New York City psychiatric hospital for paranoid thoughts just because she was checking up on the Los Angeles Clippers and the Donald Sterling situation.

Dare Matthews is suing the city after the 24-year-old was taken to Bellevue Hospital after a spat with two workers at her apartment building and then kept her in the infamous loony bin for six days after doctors classified her perceived obsession with the NBA team as paranoid and that she was suffering a behavioral disorder.

But according to the New York Daily News, Matthews claims she was only kept in the facility because she wanted to read the latest news on her cellphone about the Clippers and the downfall of the team's former owner.

According to court papers, police were called to the apartment block on West 33rd Street after two workers there called 911. Matthews, who has attended the Fashion Institute of Technology, was then taken to Bellevue by the emergency services.

She said that doctors used her love of the NBA team against her after she wanted to read updates on her team but wasn't allowed to check her cellphone.

Her attorney Rose Weber told the New York Daily News: "Doctors decided she thought the Clippers were somehow controlling her thoughts and that her Twitter was part of it.

"They took every innocent thing and made it into a crazy symptom."

Matthews claims she was medicated during the stay and that her Twitter account had been hacked.

One doctor wrote that Matthews was “internally stimulated and smiling inappropriately’ when in fact the television was on and plaintiff was watching it and was laughing at ‘The Jerry Springer show,’” the suit reads.

Wow. That just plain nuts.

The hospital has declined to comment due to patient privacy while a city law spokesman said the suit would be reviewed.

Sterling's ownership of the Clippers made headlines last year after he appeared to make racist remarks and was then banned from the NBA for life and fined $2.5 million.

Fair warning Knicks fans: Keep those delusional playoff thoughts to yourselves — or the padded room awaits.

Judge orders V. Stiviano to return $2.6 million back to Donald Sterling’s wife: Report

A Los Angeles judge ruled that the wife of the former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is owed $2.6 million by V. Stiviano — the woman who was at the center of Sterling's NBA scandal which forced the ex-owner out of the league.

On Tuesday, Judge Richard Fruin Jr. awarded Shelly Sterling most of the nearly $3 million she had sought in a lawsuit against the young beauty her husband had showered with gifts.

Sterling had claimed that money used to buy V. Stiviano a house, luxury cars and stocks was her community property.

"Shelly is thrilled with the decision," attorney Pierce O'Donnell said. "This is certainly a victory for the Sterling family whose funds were dissipated by Donald to lavish millions of dollars of gifts on a conniving mistress."

Stiviano’s lawyer had argued the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated and that Shelly Sterling couldn’t seek them from a third party.

The ruling comes nearly a year after Stiviano’s recording of Donald Sterling making racially offensive remarks forced him to sell the NBA team.

Shelly Sterling’s lawyers used other recordings to show he bought Stiviano a house, a $240,000 Ferrari and treated her to extravagant shopping sprees.

In the recordings on Stiviano’s iPhone, she and the 80-year-old billionaire are heard discussing how to shield the gifts from his wife.

“The truth is that everything that I have, you’ve given me from your heart without me begging or asking or throwing myself all over you,” Stiviano said in a clip played in court.

During the course of their 2 1/2 years together, Sterling gave her the Ferrari, a Bentley and a Range Rover, and paid the bulk of a $1.8 million duplex.

Sterling testified that he paid for the entire house, though Stiviano said she had contributed an unknown amount of money given to her in small bills by family members that she saved in a bedroom drawer.

Donald Sterling said Stiviano hadn’t contributed “50 cents” to the house and, noting that Stiviano is part black and Hispanic, said she illegally got her name inserted into escrow documents by befriending Hispanic bank and escrow employees.

Shelly Sterling filed the suit against Stiviano about a month before the recording of Donald Sterling telling Stiviano not to associate with black people created an uproar and led the NBA to ban him for life and fine him $2.5 million.