Clippers’ owner & businessman, Donald Sterling, L.A.'s own Horatio Alger, grew up in Boyle Heights and now owns property in Beverly Hills, lives on Cary Grant's former estate and works out of a business palace once owned by Louis B. Mayer, a consummate party giver and charity honoree and all-around bon vivant. While at Roosevelt High he went to the city finals as a gymnast and was class president. “In East L.A.'s Boyle Heights. says Fred Nelson, a childhood friend, "We were raised in a tough area. I'll tell you one thing about Donny--nobody ever handed him anything on a silver platter. He worked for it. He was always very smart, and a very positive person. He's from the old school, where it's not so much 'I don't know how' but 'Just do it.'"

 

Alumni Foundation 5th Annual Clipper Night 2007