Former figure skater, boxer, and reality TV star Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding; born November 12, 1970) is an American celebrity. Harding’s mother took her to ice skating lessons when she was just three years old. Harding devoted most of her youth to training, to the point where she left high school to focus only on boxing.
Harding won the 1989 Skate America tournament after rising through the ranks in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships from 1986 to 1989. She won a silver medal at the 1991 World Championships and the U.S. championship in 1991 and 1994 before being stripped of her 1994 title.
She landed a triple Axel in an international competition for the first time in 1991, becoming her the first American woman to do so and the second woman in history (after Midori Ito) to do so. Harding has won the Skate America title twice and competed in the Olympics twice.
Tonya Harding Net Worth
Former American Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding, now known as Tonya Price, has a net worth of $150,000. Harding, a figure skater, won the national title in 1991 and came in second in the World Championships. In a competitive setting, she completed the first triple axel by an American woman.
Tonya was permanently banned from the sport of figure skating when she was accused of attacking her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, in 1994. Harding went on to have a professional boxing career and to rank third in the 2018 season of “Dancing with the Stars” on ABC.
For her portrayal of Harding in the 2017 film “I, Tonya,” Margot Robbie was nominated for an Academy Award. Reports suggest that Tonya was paid only $1,500 to license the rights to the story that would become “I, Tonya,” though she may have been eligible for further compensation based on the film’s box office success.
Nancy Kerrigan Attack
A guy assaulted Nancy Kerrigan as she exited the rink during a practice for the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Detroit Cobo Arena on January 6. Tonya’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and his buddy Shawn Eckhardt were ultimately revealed to have hired the assailant.
Although Harding first denied involvement in the attack, subsequent statements from Gillooly, Eckhardt, and Shane Stant himself suggest otherwise. Tonya was permitted to compete in the 1994 Olympics, and upon her return from Lillehammer, she admitted to having post-event knowledge of the attack but failing to report it.
On June 30, 1994, she was banned by the United States Figure Skating Association and given a three-year probation, 500 hours of community service, and a $100,000 fine.
Tonya Harding Boxing Career
After facing off against Paula Jones in 2002 on Fox’s “Celebrity Boxing,” Harding came out on top. In February of 2003, Tonya competed in her first professional boxing battle, which she lost against Samantha Browning. She later boxed a celebrity on “The Man Show” on Comedy Central and won against co-host and fellow comic Doug Stanhope.
A boxing bout scheduled for March 2004 in Oakland, California was canceled when Tonya received death threats. In June of 2004, Harding boxed for the last time, losing against Amy Johnson to the accompaniment of boos from the crowd. Due of her asthma, she chose to stop boxing.
Tonya Harding Private Matters
Tonya, then 15 years old, started dating Jeff Gillooly, then 17 years old, in 1986; the couple wed on March 18, 1990. Despite getting a divorce in August 1993, Jeff continued to manage Tonya’s skating career, and the two were able to reunite in October.
From then until January 1994, they lived in a leased Beavercreek chalet. Harding then wed Joseph Price on June 23, 2010 after being married to Michael Smith from 1995 to 1996. On February 19, 2011, a boy, Gordon, was born to the happy parents.
Tonya performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Alice Olson, then 81, when she collapsed at a Portland pub in 1996, helping to save the woman’s life. Harding was sentenced to three days in jail, 167 days suspended, and 10 days of community service in 2001 after she was arrested for beating her lover Darren Silver in 2000.
Tonya was also sentenced to anger management sessions and a two-year alcohol-free period by the judge. After retiring from figure skating and boxing, Harding worked as a painter, a welder, a deck builder, and a sales clerk at Sears Hardware.
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