A judge has tentatively ruled that V. Stiviano has to return to Donald Sterling's wife of 60 years the value of the millions in cash and gifts Mr. Sterling gave Ms. Stiviano during their years of friendship. If the tentative ruling remains substantially unchanged, and survives on appeal, it will transform gifts to women from married men who stray but never quite leave into borrowed property.
Ms. Stiviano, of course, captured the attention of the public about one year ago — almost to the day — when tapes of Mr. Sterling making racially charged comments in an argument with Ms.