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Dec 19, 2013 · After getting out of prison, Eckardt changed his name to Brian Griffith. He died in 2007 at 40 of natural causes. Gillooly changed his name, too, to Jeff Stone.
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Jeff Gillooly first testified about the attack plot on January 26, 1994. [35] He said that in early December 1993, Harding phoned him after the 1993 NHK Trophy competition and was upset about her placement. He said he was also upset for her and later spoke about figure skating politics to his friend Shawn Eckardt. [30]
Jan 6, 2024 · After his release from prison, Jeff Gillooly legally changed his surname to Stone, shaved his iconic mustache, and seemed determined to put his life behind him.
- Austin Harvey
- Fact: Harding Really Was That Happy to Land The Triple Axel.
- Fiction: Harding Peppered The Judges with Profanities.
- Fact: Harding Faced Abuse from Family Members Throughout Her Life.
- Fact: Nancy Kerrigan Screamed “Why?” After Being attacked.
- Fact: Shawn Eckhardt Saw Himself as An Influential Spy.
- Fact: Lavona Golden Had A Pet Bird.
Harding became the first American woman to land a triple axel, an extremely difficult jump in which the skater makes three and a half rotations with a forward approach, at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Upon completing the jump, Harding’s mouth was agape and she appeared to cheer triumphantly at the milestone, much as Robbie plays the ...
InI, Tonya, Harding clashes with figure skating judges over her outfits, which were often homemade because she could not afford designer costumes. “Suck my d-ck,” she tells them after one competition. “This is f-cking rigged.” In reality, according to Harding’s comments in The Price of Gold, Harding told them, “Stay out of my face.” But the documen...
The movie includes many scenes depicting Harding’s mother both physically and emotionally abusing her. Her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly is shown doing much of the same, both before and after they split. In real life, Harding alleged that Gillooly beat her, while family and friends told reportersthat her mother, LaVona Golden, was violent. “He hit me, b...
As depicted in the movie, footage of the immediate aftermath of Kerrigan getting clubbed in the knee after practice at a Detroit ice rink shows the skater surrounded by medics, sobbing and screaming, “Why? Why? Why?”
Shawn Eckhardt, a friend of Gillooly’s and at one point a bodyguard for Harding, helped orchestrate the plot against Kerrigan. Eckhardt was a self-described espionage expert who said he had ties to a global network. The film shows his character, played by Paul Walter Hauser, bragging about knowing hitmen and being involved in risky exploits, claims...
Allison Janney plays Harding’s mother, LaVona Golden, in I, Tonya, and appears throughout the film with a parakeet perched on her shoulder, making for some of the movie’s funniest moments. Golden in real life actually sat for an interview, much as Janney does in the film, clad in fur with a bird sitting on her shoulder, shown in footage included in...
- Mahita Gajanan
Nov 10, 2022 · Gillooly changed his name to Jeff Stone and receded from the spotlight, though I, Tonya screenwriter Steven Rogers told PEOPLE he agreed to be interviewed for the first time since the incident...
- Ale Russian
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Dec 10, 2017 · Ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (left) and his accomplices turned on Tonya Harding and told the FBI that she was involved in planning the attack.
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Dec 13, 2013 · Gillooly changed his name to Stone after his 1995 release from prison. His surname was infamous at that point. It had become a verb, a part of the cultural lexicon.
