One of the men who was reportedly involved in the V. Stiviano assault over the weekend was arrested Tuesday in New York City.
According to ABC News, the police department had not received a formal complaint at the time Stiviano's lawyer announced the Sunday night assault, commenting, "As of now this has no legs." But, after filing a report on Monday, Stiviano reportedly picked 40-year-old Dominic Diorio out of a line-up, and he was subsequently arrested and charged with a third-degree hate crime and aggravated harassment.
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"Wow, I'm not going to tell my wife about this. That'll just upset her. I don't know what to do," Diorio's father
told the New York Post.
Stiviano, the 31-year-old at the center of the Donald Sterling/Los Angeles Clippers racism controversy who describes herself as black and Latino woman, said she was attacked outside a Manhattan hotel Sunday night by two white men who yelled racial epithets at her and punched her in the face,
according to USA Today.
"They were about 5-foot-7 and they knew exactly who she was," Stiviano's attorney, Mac Nehorary,
told RadarOnline at the time. "They began to hit her and called her the 'N' word."
The Post wrote, however, that Diorio was the one who attacked her, and was in turn attacked by passersby who intervened on her behalf. Police later found Diorio drunk and bleeding on the ground and took him to a hospital, not having known he was involved in the scuffle earlier in the night.
Stiviano will undergo X-rays when she returns to Los Angeles. Her lawyer said after the incident she was "banged up but OK."
Diorio is expected to be arraigned Wednesday.
The attack comes just weeks after the controversy surrounding Stiviano and the recordings she released of soon-to-be-ex-Clippers owner Donald Sterling making racist remarks. Sterling has been encouraged to sell his stake in the Clippers, and was recently offered $2 billion by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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