Audio: Donald Sterling leaves angry voicemails for doctors

The latest twist in the struggle for ownership of the Clippers came Thursday when lawyers for Shelly Sterling asked a judge to order her husband, Donald, to stop attempting to intimidate opposing lawyers and the psychiatrists who ruled that he was mentally incompetent.

In requesting the order against Sterling, 80, lawyers for his wife filed copies of voicemail recordings of messages that Sterling purportedly left on June 9 for two psychiatrists, James Edward Spar and Meril S. Platzer. In the recordings, Sterling uses profanity to chastise the two doctors for finding that he was mentally incapacitated and for the fact that those findings became public.

Shelly Sterling’s lawyer, Pierce O’Donnell, accused Donald Sterling of making the calls to intimidate the two doctors into not testifying that their findings show that Sterling has signs of early Alzheimer’s disease, or another brain ailment, and is not capable of conducting normal business affairs. O’Donnell also included in the court filing his own personal declaration about a phone call he allegedly received from Sterling on the same day in which Sterling purportedly menaced O’Donnell, saying ‘I am going to take you out, O’Donnell!’