Who is Tonya Harding? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

Tonya Maxene Harding Wiki Biography

Tonya Maxine Harding was born on 12 November 1970, in Portland, Oregon USA, and is known as a former professional figure skating champion,  who won a silver medal in the World Championships. Furthermore, Harding is known in sports history as the second woman who was able to complete a triple axel during competition, and so is considered to be one of the more impressive skaters.

So just how rich is Tonya Harding, as of mid-2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Tonya who has been able to accumulate an estimated net worth $10,000, diminished largely by a reputation she acquired as a result of an incident with rival Nancy Kerrigan in 1994, which has subsequently limited her earning capacity.

 Tonya Harding Net Worth $10,000

Tonya Maxine Harding’s mother was LaVona Fay Golden, while her father was already the fifth husband of LaVona. Tonya was raised together with Chris Davison, her half-brother, but he died after an accident on the road. This is the one reason why Tonya’s childhood wasn’t really happy, but there is another one – father Al Harding had some serious problems with his health and couldn’t work all the time as a healthy man, that’s why the family sometimes had big problems with money, and possibly why her mother abused her daughter physically. Despite these circumstances Tonya Harding was able to succeed to an extent.

Tonya started to practice figure skating at three years old and at the age of 12 was already considered to be a successful athlete. She placed well in US Championships from the mid-’80s, but didn’t win a title until 1991, after completing the famed triple axel, and then finished in silver place in the World Championship. In Skate America that year, she had three ‘firsts’ – a short program triple axel, two triples in one competition, and a triple axel plus double toe loop. All looked well for the 1992 Winter Olympics, but she finished fourth.

However, Tonya is well-known not only thanks to her talents as a skater, but also because of the scandal around the personality of Nancy Kerrigan. Nancy was attacked by an unknown man in 1994, when she was skating a practice session prior to participating in the US Figure Skating Championship. When investigations began, some interesting details showed up: for example, the man who attacked Nancy Kerrigan was hired by the husband of Tonya Harding and his close friend. This became a huge scandal, however, Tonya’s net worth rose even more due to increased attention to her personality. She was selected for the Olympics, but finished eighth to Kerrigan’s second, and when investigations into the attack were completed, Harding was banned for life from competitive figure skating.

Since then Harding has been briefly involved in boxing, music and acting, plus selling a celebrity sex tape in conjunction with her first husband to Penthouse magazine for a reputed $200,000. Her notoriety from that one incident now more than 20 years ago apparently continues to dog her life, and stymie efforts to increase her net worth.

Talking about her personal life, Tonya Harding married her first husband at 19 years old in 1990, however, the couple divorced four years later. Her second husband was Michael Smith, but this relationship lasted less than a year in the mid-90s. Tonya’s third husband  is Joseph Jens Price – they married in 2010, and their son was born a year later.



Full Name Tonya Harding
Net Worth $10,000
Date Of Birth November 12, 1970
Place Of Birth Portland, Oregon, United States
Height 5 ft (1.54 m)
Weight 136 lbs (61.69 kg)
Profession Former figure skater, two-time Olympian, two-time Skate America Champion
Education David Douglas High School
Nationality American
Spouse Joseph Jens Price (m. 2010), Michael Smith (m. 1995–1996), Jeff Gillooly (m. 1990–1993)
Children Gordon Price (b. 2011)
Parents Al Harding, LaVona Fay Golden
Siblings Chris Davison (died)
Nicknames Tonya Maxine Harding
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheTonyaHarding/
Twitter https://twitter.com/thetonyaharding?lang=en
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002125
Allmusic www.allmusic.com/artist/tonya-harding-mn0001011878
Awards Skate America 1989, Winter Olympics, World Championships (1990/1991, 2nd place), Nations Cup (1989/1990, 1st place), U.S. Olympic Festival (1990/1991, 2nd place)
Music Groups Golden Blades
Movies Nancy & Tonya (2014, documentary), The Price of Gold (2014), The Prize Fighter (2003), Figure Skating Superstars: Brian Boitano and Friends (1995), Breakaway
TV Shows The Early Show, The Smoking Gun Presents: World’s Dumbest…. (TruTV’s, 2008-2014 ), Fox TV network Celebrity Boxing (2002), The Man Show
Quote
1 It’s an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer. I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill. And so, you know, that’s where the bad girl image came from.
Fact
1 Gave birth to her first child at age 40, a son on February 19, 2011. Child’s father is her third husband, Joseph Jens Price.
2 Asthmatic; used asthma medication between rounds in her boxing match with Paula Jones.
3 Attended Milwaukie High School in Milwaukie, Oregon but didn’t graduate.
4 Daughter of Al Harding (b. ca 1934) and wife, later divorced, LaVona.
5 A judge ordered that Tonya be evicted from her home for failing to pay the rent. Consequently, she and her dog were forced to live in her Corvette. Tonya said that there were problems with the house. [January 2002]
6 Was arrested for beating up her boyfriend electrician Darren Silver. [2000]
7 Ice skater.

Actress

Title Year Status Character
World’s Dumbest 2012 TV Series
The Prize Fighter 2003 Video Sally Nelson
Breakaway 1996 Gina

Self

Title Year Status Character
Nancy & Tonya 2014 TV Movie documentary Herself
World’s Dumbest 2008-2013 TV Series Herself
Gylne tider 2010 TV Series documentary Herself
A Good Whack: The Making of ‘Tonya and Nancy: The Opera’ 2009 Short Herself
The Oprah Winfrey Show 2009 TV Series Herself
Entertainment Tonight 2006-2009 TV Series Herself
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel 2009 TV Series Herself – Former Figure Skater (segment “Total Recall”)
Celebrity Sex Tapes Unwound 2006 TV Movie documentary Herself
Where Are They Now 2006 TV Series Herself – Guest
Anything to Win 2006 TV Series documentary Herself
X Rated: The Sex Tapes That Shocked the World 2006 TV Movie documentary Herself – Interviewee
ESPN 25: Who’s #1? 2004 TV Series documentary Herself
The Man Show 2004 TV Series Herself
High Chaparall 2004 TV Series documentary Herself – Guest
Celebrity Boxing 2002 TV Special Herself
Weakest Link 2001 TV Series Herself
ESPN Pro Skating Championships 1999 TV Movie Herself
Arli$$ 1999 TV Series Herself
E! True Hollywood Story 1999 TV Series documentary Herself
1994 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Competition and Exhibition Highlights 1994 Video Herself
Tonya and Jeff’s Wedding Night 1994 Video short documentary Herself
The 1994 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Competition Highlights Video 1994 Video Herself
NBC Sports Presents World Champions on Ice 1993 Video Herself
1992 Winter Olympics Figure Skating 1992 Video Herself
Sharp Edges 1986 Documentary Herself
30 for 30 2014 TV Series documentary Herself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
20 to 1 2005 TV Series documentary Herself
I Love the ’90s 2004 TV Series documentary Herself
High Chaparall 2004 TV Series documentary Herself – Previous Guest
Intimate Portrait 2004 TV Series documentary Herself
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment 2003 TV Movie documentary Herself
Banned from Television II 1998 Video documentary Herself, Wedding Night
ABC’s Wide World of Sports 30th Anniversary Special 1991 TV Movie Herself

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