Sterling pictured during the blissful early days of marital infidelity. (Twitter/@RTNBA)

Donald Sterling will apologize for racist comments — comments that earned the embattled Clippers owner a permanent ban from the NBA — in an interview that will air on CNN tonight, but is already on the Internet anyway.

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Sterling also alleges that the he was "baited" into making the comments, captured on a voice recorder by a woman that looks like the third member of Daft Punk. "Am I entitled to one mistake, am I after 35 years?" Sterling asked Anderson Cooper, totally unaware of his years of documented racism. Sterling also told Cooper that he will "never do it again," which could be true, since the owner is 80-years-old and probably has cancer.

Sterling's wife, Shelly, told Barbara Waters that she will "eventually" divorce her estranged husband and has been seeing divorce attorneys "for the last 20 years." But it's proving really, really hard to give up those courtside basketball seats.

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