Word: bodyguard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date is Dec. 28. Jeff Gillooly has just been dropped off by his ex-wife, Tonya Harding, at the home of Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt. Inside, Gillooly, Eckardt and two out-of-town thugs for hire discuss ways to keep Nancy Kerrigan from competing Jan. 7 and 8 in the U.S. figure-skating championships in Detroit. Methodically the four men run down their options: cut Kerrigan's Achilles tendon, break her leg or kneecap, kill her. According to Gillooly, he then calls Harding and asks her to pick him up. As Gillooly drives, he details a proposed...
...months, of course, the boys' strategy was lying, from the frantic, tearful call to 911 saying, "Somebody killed my parents," to the loving eulogy at the memorial service, to the hiring of a bodyguard in case they were next on the Mafia hit list. Then they came up with the theory of self-defense- cum-child-abuse...
...circle of intrigue tightened around figure skater Tonya Harding last week as her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly was arrested and charged with assault in the Jan. 6 attack on Harding's rival, Nancy Kerrigan. Meanwhile, Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eckardt, implicated her in the attack in an affidavit released by police and in an interview on ABC's PrimeTime Live. Harding, who was questioned by the fbi for nearly 11 hours, maintains her innocence and has not been charged...
...blowhard bodyguard says yes -- but offers little proof...
...assassins." He claims to have worked as a counterintelligence specialist for a Swiss company 10 years ago -- when he was just 16 years old. He likes to pass on tales of working in Peru sabotaging pipelines and training in antiterrorist tactics in Israel. Having worked as Tonya Harding's bodyguard for two months, he is now passing along tales about her -- indeed, three different ones. The first clears the skater of any wrongdoing in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan; the second implicates her on hearsay evidence; the third implicates her directly. Based on his past bouts of braggadocio...