Jaguars Owner SHAHID KHAN "put up $100,000" for Jacksonville Mayor ALVIN BROWN's "re-election bid last month, bringing Khan’s total support for Brown to $200,000 in the high-spending battle for mayor." Khan is the "top-dollar contributor" in the mayoral race. Khan last month "contributed $50,000 to Taking Jacksonville to the Next Level, a political committee supporting Brown’s re-election bid." In addition, Regent Consultant, a corporation whose manager is Khan, "contributed $50,000 to the political committee" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 4/15).
MONEY CLIP: L.A. Superior Court Judge RICHARD FRUIN JR. yesterday "issued a tentative decision" ordering former Clippers Owner DONALD STERLING's former mistress V. STIVIANO to return more than $2.6M in "gifts and cash she received" from him. Fruin ruled a home worth $1.8M and more than "$800,000 in luxury cars and cash gifts that Donald Sterling gave his 32-year-old companion were assets he shared with his wife, SHELLY." He ordered Stiviano to "turn them over to the Sterling Family Trust" (L.A. TIMES, 4/15).
THE GOOD STUFF: Oklahoma City's Integris Baptist Medical Center and the Thunder yesterday "unveiled a new pediatric playroom" at the hospital’s pediatric unit. The dedication is a "part of the Oklahoma Standard initiative, a campaign to encourage companies, government agencies, families, organizations and individuals to perform acts of service, honor and kindness leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing." Thunder GM SAM PRESTI chairs the campaign (OKLAHOMAN, 4/15).
NAMES: Wasserman Media Group Founder, Chair & CEO CASEY WASSERMAN will be presented with the '15 WISE Champion Award, which recognizes a male exec, during the WISE Women of the Year awards ceremony June 16 in N.Y. (WISE)....MLB Chief Baseball Officer JOE TORRE yesterday appeared at Emerson Middle School in Union City, N.J., to "receive a check for a $65,000 grant from HopeLine from Verizon and the Verizon Foundation to support his Safe At Home Foundation and its Margaret's Place initiative." He addressed "hundreds of students about his experiences with domestic violence" and held a long Q&A session (MLB.com, 4/14)....Nearly 60 Akron high school seniors yesterday were "treated to the third annual 'I PROMise Makeover,' an event founded" by Cavaliers F LEBRON JAMES' wife, SAVANNAH, and organized by the LeBron James Family Foundation to help students who cannot afford prom (AKRON BEACON JOURNAL, 4/15)....Golfer JORDAN SPIETH dined at Lavo in N.Y. Monday night "with a friend and execs" from Under Armour (N.Y. POST, 4/15).
