She was sentenced to three years of supervised probation, 500 hours of community service, a $100,000 state fine, and was tasked with setting up a $50,000 fund to benefit the Special Olympics, reimbursing the Multnomah County prosecutor’s office $10,000 in costs, undergoing a psychiatric examination and participating in any court-ordered treatment. The prosecution believed that she was much more involved than what the plea bargain encompassed, but they accepted the plea since it included a felony charge. Harding pleaded guilty to hindering the prosecution - meaning that she knew who had done the attack, but only afterward, and that she didn’t report it immediately. investigation found that the man had been hired by Shawn Eckardt, a friend of Jeff Gillooly’s, who was Ms. Kerrigan was clubbed on the knee by a man with a collapsible baton. 6, 1994, six weeks before the Lillehammer Olympics (and two nights before the conclusion of the United States Figure Skating Championships), Ms. ESPN had given a rounder, more nuanced look at Ms. Then, in 2014, the screenwriter Steven Rogers watched the ESPN documentary “The Price of Gold,” and decided to reach out. They all told her that they would let her explain, and each time she felt like she didn’t really get her message across, because each time, it came down to: Well, did you do it, or didn’t you? Did you know more than you said? Did you actually plan the attack? Are you sorry? Are you still sorry? But the focus was so much about what happened in 1994 it was never about before or after, and if you want to understand her at all, you have to understand her childhood and her early adulthood. Over the years, “E! True Hollywood Story” came along. So even when she meets a stranger and says, “Nice to meet you, I’m Tonya Price,” the person will narrow his eyes and say, “Wait, aren’t you….?” This is basically how this entire story goes: There are facts, and then there is the truth, and you can’t let one get in the way of the other or you’ll never understand what she’s trying to tell you.īut therein lies the problem: Whatever her name is, she looks an awful lot like Tonya Harding. She is Tonya Price but you cannot deny that she is also Tonya Harding. “But Tonya Harding is who people know.” Which is a good point. I told her I probably can’t if her name is Tonya Price I should call her Tonya Price - paper of record and all that. “But you should use Tonya Harding in your story,” she said. Hockey and figure skates, including a signed pair of hers, hang over the bar, which features a “frost rail” that makes its surface look and feel like an ice rink. We were at a lounge called 38 Below, which is skating-themed. They married, and she changed her last name, like lots of people do. She had never met anyone so gentle or kind she had never known a man to just love her, not for her skating abilities or for what she might potentially become, but for her. Within those same weeks she was carrying their baby. “I mean the eyes are the center to your soul, O.K.? You might have a nice butt, but I want to see the eyes.” Within weeks she proposed to him. “I’m going, damn, he’s got beautiful eyes,” she said. She was having drinks with a friend when she spotted one Joe Price, a heating and air-conditioning worker, on the karaoke stage. clothes, still made up, and she went out to Timbers, a local restaurant.
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In 2010, she had just returned home to Washington from Los Angeles, where she’d been doing another one of the odd jobs she’d collected over the years - color commentary on ill-advised video stunts for the TV show “World’s Dumbest.” She was still in her cute L.A.
“My name is Tonya Price,” she said, when she saw me taking notes. Tonya Harding’s name isn’t Tonya Harding anymore.
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