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Tonya Maxene Harding was born November 12, 1970, in Portland, Oregon, to LaVona Golden (b. 1940) and Albert Harding (1933–2009). [2] During Harding's youth, her father held various odd jobs (managed apartments, drove a truck, and worked at a bait & tackle store), yet was often underemployed due to poor health. [ 3 ]
Tonya Harding is mourning the loss of the victims killed in the American Airlines passenger plane collision with an army helicopter in Washington D.C. The former figure skater, 54, took to social ...
— Tonya Harding (@itstonyaharding) January 30, 2025 Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said in a statement offering condolences that some on board the flight may have ...
They became embroiled in an international controversy in 1994 when Kerrigan was attacked by a man hired by Harding’s ex-husband, a scandal dramatized in the 2017 film I, Tonya, starring Margot ...
Jeff Gillooly was Tonya Harding's ex-husband. [1] At the time of the attack, the couple were together and still referred to each other as husband and wife. Shawn Eckardt, a friend of Gillooly's who was also Harding's bodyguard before the attack, had originally been hired by the figure skater after she received an anonymous death threat. [12]
Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story is a 1994 American made-for-television biographical satirical-drama film written by Phil Penningroth and directed by Larry Shaw.It stars Alexandra Powers as Tonya Harding and Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Kerrigan and focuses on the 1994 Cobo Arena attack on Kerrigan and the extensive media coverage surrounding the infamous incident.
Screenwriter Steven Rogers was inspired to write I, Tonya after watching a documentary on figure skating which mentioned Tonya Harding. [10] Rogers arranged separate interviews with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly; each remembered the events of the 1994 scandal very differently. Rogers decided, "Well, that's my way in - to put everyone ...
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