[12] Shane Stant later testified that Harding was part of staging the death threat against herself. Harding said she understood that. "Shawn was the kind of guy you saw in high school or at the bus stop who's in his own world. [82], On March 21, 1994, a Portland grand jury issued an indictment stating there was evidence Harding participated in the attack plot. [30], On January 11, Ann Schatz interviewed Harding for KOIN-TV in Portland, Oregon. As you can tell, each relationship featured I, Tonya, is fraught with built-up animosity. The grand jury foreman said the evidence implied Harding as "involved from the beginning or very close." Tonya Maxene Harding was born on November 12, 1970, in Portland, Oregon, to LaVona Golden (b. Rogers doesn't discuss whether or not he consulted with Fay to hear her side of the story, and that might be because Harding and her mother have not spoken since 2002. TV Shows. The indictment concluded more than two months of investigation and witness testimonies from Diane Rawlinson; Harding's choreographer Erika Bakacs; freelance figure skating writer Vera Marano; and Eckardt's college instructor and classmates. [30] Eckardt suggested cutting Kerrigan's Achilles tendon, using a beater car to run her off the road, or "just kill her," but those ideas were opposed. That Eckardt inflated his credentials is undeniable. Smith and Stant plead guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree assault and are led away in handcuffs to begin their 18-month prison sentences. Jan. 12, 1994: Eckardt confesses to the FBI, implicating Harding, Gillooly, and two of Eckardt's friends, Stant and Derrick B. Smith. pictured with Harding, plays the disgraced skater in critically acclaimed movie I, Tonya, Trailer for new ice skating blockbuster, I, Tonya, starring Margot Robbie, Tonya Harding FINALLY admits she knew about sensational plot to break ice skating arch rival Nancy Kerrigans leg before 1994 Olympics, Shocking photo shows bedsheet where girl died weighing 23st - as mum JOKED about flies in squalid room, Man, 43, died after being held down by security guards at Sainsbury's, Man rushed to hospital with stab wounds after 'incident' at Hackney Central railway station as cops rush to scene, The pair would later hire Shane Stant, who assaulted US skater Nancy Kerrigan with a baton, The extraordinary story is the subject of a critically acclaimed movie I, Tonya, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Ten days later, Harding's lawyer asked the restraining order to be lifted because the couple again wished to reconcile. All rights reserved (About Us). On June 29, the USFSA disciplinary panel met for nine hours over two days to consider Harding's alleged role in the attack. [38], On December 29, 1993, Stant agreed to execute the plot and took a flight to Boston, yet discovered he could not rent a car with his girlfriend's credit card. She gave birth to her only child, a son named Gordon, on February 19, 2011. Gillooly said he paid Eckardt while Harding was in another room having coffee with Eckardt's mother. Hood Community College, shared an interest in espionage and survivalism, and had discussed opening a school together someday. On August 25th I will attempt the Block Island Challenge. A camera crew was recording her practice session and showed her leaving the ice rink and walking through a curtain and down a hallway; the camera then cuts out. The 47-year-old, who has now remarried, claims she thought her former spouse Gillooly would kill her many times.. [16] Stant stated in a 2018 interview that he was standing "about a foot and a half" (around half a meter) behind the camera crew and waited for them to stop filming before he followed Kerrigan through the curtain. [6][7] Law enforcement investigators had been following and videotaping the co-conspirators since January 10, and knew about the payphone calls. Oct. 7, 1994: The Tonya Harding Fan Club, which grew to nearly 2,000 members during this Olympic year, begins disbanding. Shawn Eckardt, the 300-pound would-be bodyguard of figure skater Tonya Harding, walked out of prison Friday morning in Salem, Ore., the last of those involved in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan to be . [66][67][68], On February 5, 1994, the USFSA disciplinary panel stated there were reasonable grounds to believe Harding had violated the sport's code of ethics. Harding ultimately. And NBC News reported last night that Gillooly will be arrested today. March 14, 1995: The former Jeff Gillooly, who since has changed his name to Jeff Stone, is released from Oregon SUMMIT prison boot camp program north of Coos Bay. Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. To his attorney, Eckardt "wasn't smart enough" to plot the clubbing of Kerrigan. [49] He was the son of Derrick Smith's wife's sister. Two persons, including Sharon K Eckardt, Kurt E Eckardt, listed the phone number (218) 568-6696 as their own, various documents indicated. Russell then told her that he knew she had lied to him. Shawn Eckhardt in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [38] Stant, thinking Kerrigan would still be training at the arena, frequented the parking lot for two days and relocated his car every half hour. Stant said he would not cut anyone. Harding was a powerfully athletic figure skater who was able to complete the triple axel but came from the other side of the tracks. Hoevet added that Eckardt was paid $3,500 by the Harding camp to provide security as the skater arrived at Portland International Airport, and accompany her on a planned trip to last week's pre-Olympic skating exhibition in Fairfax, Va. Shawn Eckardt was the bodyguard of figure skater Tonya Harding and was involved in the planning of the 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan at Cobo Arena in Detroit. A grand jury continues to hear testimony. 18 Jun 1967. He is a 26-year-old, 300-pound college student who works out of his parent's home and drives a 1976 Mercury with a missing hubcap. Gillooly opposed carrying out an attack in Detroit, feeling it too likely they would be caught, and instructed Eckardt to wire Stant funds to return home without carrying out the attack. [20] They married on March 18, 1990. Harding will skate in the Olympics. And I never understood that.. Gillooly suggested that Harding call the Tony Kent Arena because she knew ice skating terminology. If That January, an assailant clubbed Kerrigan in the knee, forcing her out of the competition. Eckardt had dropped out of high school and was currently enrolled in a paralegal course at Pioneer Pacific Collegethat is, when he wasn't running the grandly titled World Bodyguard Services from. July 21, 1995: Shane Stant, Kerrigan's assailant, is released from the Santiam Correctional Institution after serving 14 months. He claimed that he then phoned Eckardt to cancel the deal. Six months after the attack Harding was stripped of her titles and banned from US figure skating for life. View Shawn Eckardt results including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. He was interested in bodybuilding, martial arts, and helping Smith open his training camp someday. Accounts of Stants personal rehabilitation can be read in letters of recommendation he filed with a court in Oregon when he tried to have his conviction in the Kerrigan assault expunged. As Tonya grows up, her parents take her out of school to focus on her skating career, and she trains under coach . June 30, 1994: Harding is stripped of her 1994 national figure skating title and banned for life from the U.S. Counter-terrorist specialist. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. "[38][42], He said the men would need another photo of Kerrigan and her "skating times." I don't want to lose him. Just six years later in Dec. 2007, Eckardt passed away in Portland, Oregon, at just 40 years old. She said she worked as a freelance writer and had written some figure skating articles about Harding, regularly trading phone calls with her. Those involved dream it might make it to Broadway one day. "[a] This footage was later broadcast around the world in news programs. They plead not guilty. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Tonya Harding prepared Monday for her first questioning by the district attorney amid reports that her ex-husband was about to be arrested and that funds from the U.S. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Brian Sean Griffith, the former bodyguard to Tonya Harding, has died. Simpson's girlfriend." Eckardt is dead. Smith did not want to commit the assault himself because he had no criminal record, but said he might know someone who would do it. [80][73][81] Harding's penalties included three years of probation, a $100,000 fine, and 500 hours community service. A jaw-dropping confession found in the archives of early-90s TV newsmagazine Hot Take, featuring Tonya Harding's infamous "bodyguard" Shawn Eckhardt.Learn mo. Jan. 27, 1994: Harding meets the press and reads a statement admitting she failed to report things she knew about the assault on Kerrigan. Most people who remember the 1994 scandal, during which Harding's figure skating competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, was whacked on the knees with a metal baton as she was practicing for the U.S. Championships, probably remember Eckardt. Would love your thoughts, please comment. I knew something was up, confessed Harding, who still insists she had no role in the vicious attack. She was raised in East Portland and began skating at age three, training with coach . Gillooly refused to pay more until he had receipts proving that someone was in Boston for their plan. Jan. 15, 1994: Figure skating officials meet to decide whether Harding can compete in the Olympics in February. They also found two photos of Kerrigan from the World Team handbook and Olympian magazine. Sept. 22, 1995: Shawn Eckardt gets out of the Oregon State Penitentiary 109 days early for good behavior; he was to have served 18 months for his part in planning the attack. Movies. Email us attips@the-sun.co.ukor call 0207 782 4368 . According to Gillooly, Harding replied, "Let's do it. Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Shane Stant was one of the most notorious figures in the 1990s because he was nabbed for being the actual attacker of Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly said that Harding had been moving her possessions into his truck when they started an argument over his former girlfriend; he declined to press charges. [12] Shane Stant later testified that Harding was part of staging the death threat against herself. March 21, 1994: A Multnomah County grand jury indicts Eckardt, Smith and Stant on charges including racketeering and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault. 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. This inspires Jeff Gillooly and Shawn Eckhardt (his friend, her "bodyguard") to plan their own attack. . He was the man who allegedly taped the conversation in which the plan to attack Kerrigan was hatched. Feb. 1997: During a two-minute performance preceding a Reno Renegades hockey game, Harding is subjected to booing, catcalls, and thrown batons. "He gets A's in class," Spires said. You know something was a major cultural phenomenon if SNL parodied it, and Eckardt definitely became a household name for all the wrong reasons in the early '90s. Kerrigan was then carried away to a changing room by her father. In October, she decided to reconcile with Gillooly and withdraw the divorce, saying they were still in love and seeking counseling: "I know he's changed. [11] The Winter Olympics were also set to take place in February, where Kerrigan and Harding were likely to be the two female figure skaters representing the United States. I, Punch Line", "Tattoo Assassins: The Strangest Mortal Kombat Knockoff Ever", "Inside The Bizarre (And Pervy) Mortal Kombat Knockoff That Never Was", "Nancy Kerrigan Versus Tonya Harding: A Rap History", "Former Olympic skater Tonya Harding bitter and thankful over Obama's 'kneecap' comment", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Assault_of_Nancy_Kerrigan&oldid=1134109791, Harding v. US Figure Skating Ass'n, 851 F. Supp. Harding said that Gillooly phoned her one hour later asking her to pick him up. #OnThisDay in 1994 US figure skater @NancyAKerrigan was clubbed on the back of her knee with a police baton by #ShaneStant It was later reported her assailant was hired by the exhusband of @thetonyaharding #JeffGillooly + coconspirator #ShawnEckardt at @cobocenter in Detroit. [48] According to him, she then said "You need to stop screwing around with this and get it done. Kerrigan had been practicing skating on an ice rink in the arena shortly beforehand. Before the Olympics, a man emerged from the shadows and struck her in the knee, leading to Kerrigans famous and plaintive cry: Why? Kerrigan was hit on the knee in January 1994 during the US Olympic Trials. But my life was in shambles.. He compared the "hit" to going hunting. His lawyer told the judge that Stant had lived a law-abiding life since leaving prison and needed a break to achieve his dream of joining the SEALs.. Jan. 26-27, 1994: Gillooly confesses to the FBI, implicating himself, Harding, Eckardt, Smith and Stant. Eckardt then set up the attack on Kerrigan with a hit man, Shane Stant, and Derrick Smith, Stant's uncle. Meanwhile, Harding has steadfastly denied knowing anything about the . Eckardt was flustered and said he did not know why. In 103 pages of FBI transcripts from interviews with four figures in the Kerrigan assault, an unappealing picture is painted: * Shawn Eric Eckardt, Harding's bodyguard, is portrayed as a . [47] Smith returned to Arizona and was communicating separately with Stant and Eckardt by phone, while Eckardt reported back to Gillooly. It was 12.55am, Saturday 27 July 1996. Here's a timeline of the saga, compiled from reporting by The Oregonian staff and wire services: February 1991: Tough, athletic Tonya Harding lands the daring triple axel during the U.S. FBI agent James Russell then asked if she was at Shawn Eckardt's house at any time on January 11, Harding replied that she "definitely" had not been. Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding is opening up up about her relationship with her mother, her notorious past and her reaction to the new film about her life, I, Tonya, in a interview with. Had social media been born back then, Portland would have been the center of the Twitterverse. Sept. 22, 1995: Shawn Eckardt gets out of the Oregon State Penitentiary 109 days early for good behavior; he was to have served 18 months for his part in planning the attack. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Figure Skating Association meets to discuss allegations against Harding. Olympian resigns", "Harding found guilty of hindering investigation", "Records indicate Harding lied about phone calls", "Harding stripped of title; banned for life", "Review: 'I, Tonya.' It really is a miracle, and she really is very happy.". The story that emerged after her rival, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, was assaulted at the U.S. Gillooly stood in her view behind the camera during the interview. He was enrolled in the program for three years before being booted out in 1992. Formerly Shawn Eckardt, Griffith had changed his name since the attack in an attempt to put it behind him. 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