Donald Sterling’s former gal pal V. Stiviano was pummeled by two men who shouted racial slurs at her outside a restaurant in the Meatpacking District Sunday night, her lawyer claimed.
Stiviano was leaving a restaurant near the Gansevoort Hotel when two men attacked her and “punched her on the right side of her face several times,” according to her attorney, Mac Nehoray.
“They were about 5-foot-7 and they knew exactly who she was,” he said. “They began to hit her and called her the N-word.”
A guard at the Gansevoort said he saw Stiviano and her crew get involved in the brawl at around 7 p.m.
He said Stiviano was with several male and female friends when they got into an argument among themselves. That’s when the two strangers got involved, he said.
“Eventually, hands started being thrown,” the bouncer told The Post. “It looks like the guys in the group were defending the girls.”
The bouncer said he didn’t see Stiviano get hit, and didn’t hear the N-word.
“In the chaos, I did not see her get popped in the face, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she did because it was crazy out there,” he said.
Nicholas Pietro, manager of the Chester restaurant in the Gansevoort, said a customer witnessed a woman being hit in the face.
“One of the patrons who saw the whole thing said they saw one guy punch her in the face out of nowhere,” he said. “So they got into a tussle and she tried to get away. Some people tried to break up the fight.
“One of the guys who was trying to beat her up ended up really bloody.”
Police said an intoxicated man was found on the ground by passing officers at the address at 7 p.m. He told officers he was drunk and slipped when a woman came at him. He did not wish to press charges, police said.
Nehoray said Stiviano was not seriously injured, but “one side of her face is extremely red.”
Police said they could not confirm that Stiviano was involved in the altercation.
Stiviano, who is at the center of the LA Clippers racial firestorm, is in town to appear on Anderson Cooper’s CNN show.