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...hands from a clothesline at six months and tumbling in her first gymnastics class at age three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, Dominique, 14 years old and headed for gold, thanked her parents. "I look in the mirror and see Dominique Moceanu, my parents' daughter...
...childhood. Now a 17-year-old senior in high school, she is asking to be declared a legal adult so she can control her own finances. According to Moceanu, her parents mismanaged her trust fund, pouring her money into a multimillion-dollar, 70,000-sq.-ft. Houston gym complex and a sportswear line. "Her relationship with her parents was only about gymnastics," says Olympic teammate Shannon Miller, who has been counseling Dominique over the past few months. "She wants to enjoy the sport because she enjoys it, not because...
...their suggestion last November, she met with a Dallas lawyer to discuss using the last $173,000 check from her gymnastics exhibition tour to set up a separate trust. When her father found out about the plan, he drove to Dallas and took the check and Dominique back to Houston. Dominique told the Houston Chronicle that beyond just controlling her purse strings, her parents pressured her, and she lived in fear of her father, saying he hit her "a couple of times." Dumitru says he never hit her and maintains she is being influenced by others, including her new coach...
...Glenn?s Friendship 7 fly-by, decided to go one brighter. The grand old spaceman saw their luminous display for about five minutes, and pronounced it better than 1962: "They?ve really got them lit up tonight," Glenn said. So wrapped up was the Ohio senator, he mistakenly called Houston mission control "Cape" -- which it was, 36 years...
...squandering her earnings. Few people have sympathy for a child who sues her parents, especially over money. But the teenage gymnast-who argued that she had no access to her earnings because she is under 18-may have had a point. Moceanu's parents, having transplanted themselves to Houston when Dominique was 10 so that she could train with a coach there, stopped working after the 1996 Olympics, apparently living solely off their daughter's earnings. The talent was hers, but the choices that went with it were...