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Dumitru and Camelia Moceanu had the greatest of expectations for their daughter Dominique--even before she was born. The Romanian gymnasts, who had defected to the U.S. during the cold war, made a pact that their first-born would follow in their footsteps--even if they had to "just drink water and eat bread." Dumitru had his baby girl hanging by her 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...
Last week the mirror cracked. Not only did Moceanu run away from home; she also asked for and was granted a 14-day restraining order against her parents and has filed a lawsuit in a Texas district court asking for a divorce from them. She charges they squandered her money and robbed her of her 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...
...probably remeber Dominique Moceanu, the 14-year-old gymnast who was part of the goldmedal-winning American team in 1996. As of two days ago, she has settled a lawsuit she had filed against her parents for 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...
DOMINIQUE MOCEANU At 14, she has one autobiography but no individual Olympic medals...
...wife Martha and Tracy. They were an effective team--Martha Karolyi the experienced technician, Tracy the supportive den mother. The group they assembled for the Olympics was older and more mature than the '92 group: three were competing in their second Olympics, and the average age was 18. Moceanu, the tiny 14-year-old who got the most advance press hype, was an exception that will soon be against the rules; for the 2000 Games, the minimum age for competition has been changed...