Harding continues to deny her involvement in the attack on Kerrigan. It has a lot of people wondering: Where is Shane Stant, the Kerrigan knee-whacker, today? [20] They married on March 18, 1990. [10], Nancy Kerrigan is an American former figure skater who, in January 1994, was about to take part in the United States Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan. Stant, who was 22 years old at the time, was hired by Shawn Eckhardt, a close friend of Tonya Harding's then-husband, Jeff Gillooly. In July, Gillooly was sentenced to two years in prison after publicly apologizing to Kerrigan adding "any apology coming from me rings hollow. "He seemed like a nice guy, and I'm sure he meant well," Duggan added. As the Bleacher Report explains, Stants uncle, Derrick Smith, called Stant, who was 22 at the time, in 1993 and asked if Stant would hurt somebody for money. Stant told the FBI that Smith asked him if he would take down a skater. The Bleacher Report added, A man named Shawn Eckardt called and said it would involve slicing the skaters Achilles tendon. Sep. 4, 2014. SHAWN ECKARDT As the owner of World Bodyguard Services, Eckardt boasted of private investigation work in Costa Rica, demolishing Peruvian pipelines and guarding celebrities. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. But both reportedly have been implicated by confessions made by Eckardt and Shane Stant, the alleged hit man. Shawn Eric Eckardt (1967 - December 12 2007) was an American criminal who, while employed by figure skater Tonya Harding as a bodyguard in the early 1990s, conspired with Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and Shane Stant in the planning and execution of the assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan on January 6 1994. In an interview today on a Portland television station, KATU, another fellow student, 20-year-old Sarah Bergman, said Eckardt had told her of a plot to get Kerrigan. 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. The attack was intended to prevent Kerrigan from taking part in the ongoing 1994 United States Figure Skating Championships and the forthcoming Winter Olympics, thus increasing the prospects of Harding in both figure skating events. "That's news to me," said Joe Walther, the man who answered the phone listed in the letter. Jan. 6, 1994: An assailant clubs Nancy Kerrigan, Harding's skating rival, on the right knee with a metal baton as she leaves skating practice in Detroit. July 25, 1995: Derrick Smith, who drove the getaway car in the attack, leaves the South Fork Forest prison camp near the Oregon Coast after serving 18 months. When Harding returned, she testified that she and Gillooly went to Eckardt's home on December 28, 1993; he went inside, she drove away. If you or someone you know has been. Formerly Shawn Eckardt, Griffith served 14 months for his role in the 1994 attack on Harding's. Tonya Harding's bodyguard Shawn Eckardt (Paul Walter Hauser) made international headlines when he sat down with Diane Sawyer. News cameras captured Kerrigan wailing in pain after the attack. I, Punching Bag. Jan. 14, 1994: Stant surrenders to the FBI in Phoenix, Ariz., and is charged with conspiring to assault Kerrigan. According to Gillooly, Harding replied, "Let's do it. [30] The officer then interviewed Harding and Gillooly separately about what had happened, but their stories did not match. She's the national champ. [30][38] Eckardt introduced Gillooly to Derrick Smith, using only his first name, Stant was introduced as Smith's "friend." Two persons, including Sharon K Eckardt, Kurt E Eckardt, listed the phone number (218) 568-6696 as their own, various documents indicated. In I, Tonya, Tonya's life as a one-time star of . Aug. 1994: Pictures taken from the video of Tonya and Jeff Gillooly's wedding night appear in the 25th anniversary issue of Penthouse magazine. What happened to Shane Stant, who attacked Nancy Kerrigan during the Tony Harding scandal? He wouldnt cut anybody. The camera crew began recording again shortly after the attack and recorded Kerrigan sitting on the floor crying surrounded by arena staff. But the two men have known each other since attending grade school together. Lurking in the background was Harding's self-anointed "bodyguard," Shawn Eckardt, a slovenly fabulist. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. Stant then followed Kerrigan to the Nationals in Detroit in early January 1994. Gillooly first stated that the gun had fired when he was carrying it. (Chris Farley filled Eckardt's tracksuit in an SNL bit in 1994.) She went on to discover a love of music and progressed to a short-lived career in boxing, after a stint on the show Celebrity Boxing. By subscribing to this BDG newsletter, you agree to our. The former Harding bodyguard died at the age of 40 in 2007 of natural causes, a ccording. Shane Stant Today: Where Is the Nancy Kerrigan Attacker Now? The real Shawn Eckardt: CHRIS WILKINS/AFP via Getty Images The two side by side: Frank Masi/30West / courtesy Everett Collection / CHRIS WILKINS/AFP via Getty Images 17. It really is a miracle, and she really is very happy.". [38] He said the message was difficult to understand, it sounded like "Tunee Can." Shane Stant, Smith's nephew, initially planned to carry out the attack by himself and had travelled to Kerrigan's home rink in Cape Cod in late December 1993, but was unable to locate her. Harding thumps her and dollar signs flash in boxing promoters' eyes. Jan. 15, 1994: Figure skating officials meet to decide whether Harding can compete in the Olympics in February. In 1994, "Forrest Gump" broke box-office records. The lettersfrom his mom, his sister, a former Navy SEAL/Army chaplain and a lawyer who is a former military prosecutorglow with praise for how Stant has turned his life around, Bleacher Report notes, adding that, in 2013, Stant had not given an interview for 20 years, choosing a life of obscurity after the scandal. "[39][38], Smith and his nephew, Shane Stant, arrived in Portland on December 27, drove to Eckardt's home, and asked for a meeting with Gillooly tomorrow at 10 a.m. Gillooly said Harding would be training at that time, but he agreed to meet them. A juge in Portland, Oregon refused. Feb. 1999: Harding says the way has been cleared for her return to skating, but United States Figure Skating Association officials say her status has not changed. Eckardt, 27, a self-styled security expert who was a central figure in the Jan. 6 attack on Kerrigan, struck a deal with prosecutors in May under which he pleaded guilty to a state charge of. According to him, she did phone the arena asking for Kerrigan's "patch and freestyle times," and phoned again for the address. Figure Skating Championships. Why? Gillooly stood in her view behind the camera during the interview. After the meeting, he and Stant agreed not to injure Kerrigan "too badly. Shawn Eckardt, 'I, Tonya' Image via NEON. They drove to Eckardt's home that night with the photos, practice times, and $2,700 in cash. He then told her, "I think we should go for it." With no record of military service, Eckardt boasts that his skills include unconventional warfare, surveillance, psychological operations and something he calls the "Secret Service characteristics matrix for assassins." He claims to have worked as a counterintelligence specialist for a Swiss company 10 . [48] According to him, she then said "You need to stop screwing around with this and get it done. [23] In autumn 1991, Harding dated a Canadian banker. [88][89] Harding was stripped of her 1994 U.S. Championship title and banned for life from participating in USFSA events as either skater or coach. Eckardt says Gillooly hatched the plot. Kerrigan, who was attacked in Detroit after a training session, only suffered bruising and managed to win Silver at that years games in Norway. 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. Harding then phoned Marano again asking her to spell the arena name, and Gillooly said he watched as Harding wrote out "Tony Kent Arena. "Despite my mistakes and rough edges," she says, "I have done nothing to violate the standards of excellence in sportsmanship that are expected in an Olympic athlete." The USFSA has no dominion over professional skating events, yet Harding was also persona non grata on the pro circuit. 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. Arrested for their roles in the attack were Derrick Smith and Stant, two men who liked to set booby-traps and play war together on property they shared in Corbett, Ore. And there were tales of Eckardt trying to entice a fellow student, Russell "Rusty" Rietz, to "kill someone" in Detroit for $65,000. Shawn Eckhardt in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In mid-December 1993, Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, approached Shawn Eckardt about somehow eliminating Kerrigan from the competition. 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. The film, which has a string of award nominations, hits UK screens on February 23. [78], On March 16, Harding pleaded guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution as a Class C felony offense at a Multnomah County court hearing. Weaver said the decision disappointed her but was not a surprise, and that she had not decided on an appeal. Original Name. Harding initially denied all knowledge of the attack,[4][5] but soon accepted a plea agreement admitting to helping cover up the attack after the fact. "[21], Harding later claimed she was the victim of acquaintance rape sometime during her separation from Gillooly in 1991, "by a friend of mine, who I knew for eight years. [38], According to Gillooly, Harding then approached both men and asked Eckardt if his previous back pains were better. Read more about what happened to Jeff Gillooly after the Kerrigan attack here. #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. She agreed to reimburse Multnomah County $10,000 in legal expenses, undergo a psychiatric examination, and volunteered to give $50,000 to the Special Olympics Oregon (SOOR) charity. Or was he following the orders of others? [6][7] Later, both a grand jury[8] and a disciplinary panel from the United States Figure Skating Association (USFSA)[9] found further evidence of Harding's involvement during the planning and execution phases. She also agrees to resign from the U.S. Eckardt plays an important role in the movie I, Tonya, and that's because he played a big part in the investigation that followed Kerrigan's assault. [64][65] Harding left her home that evening to practice figure skating with her coaches, where she spoke with reporters and performed a triple Axel. Gillooly refused to pay more until he had receipts proving that someone was in Boston for their plan. The 47-year-old, who has now remarried, claims she thought her former spouse Gillooly would kill her many times.. The shamed US figure skater has confessed that she overheard her husband Jeff Gillooly and bodyguard Shawn Eckardt talking about carrying out an attack on one of her competitors. On June 29, the USFSA disciplinary panel met for nine hours over two days to consider Harding's alleged role in the attack. Who's in the audience on opening night? Kerrigan could not compete in the US Championship but recovered in time to compete in the Winter Olympics. Feb. 10, 1994: Harding sues the U.S. Olympic Committee to stop it from a planned hearing to discuss whether she should participate in the Olympics. A disagreement between Harding and some officers of the fan club over disbursement of the money in the fan club account had flared on several occasions, including once at the bank where the account is based. His forte: counterterrorism. [52] During the meeting, he thought Eckardt was leading Gillooly to think he had many "underground" contacts. But my life was in shambles.. Gillooly said Harding told him to tear off the magazine's mailing label because it had their home address. Tonya knew that the purpose of this meeting was to discuss how they could . They settled on injuring Kerrigan's right leg. 2007, Eckardt passed away in Portland, Oregon, at just 40 years old. The pair would later hire Shane Stant, who assaulted US skater Nancy Kerrigan with a baton - striking her above the knee, five weeks before the Olympics. The man was later found to have been hired by Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and his friend, Shawn Eckardt. [35] He said that in early December 1993, Harding phoned him after the 1993 NHK Trophy competition and was upset about her placement. That Eckardt inflated his credentials is undeniable. Shawn Eckhardt Found 11 people in Pennsylvania, Virginia and 12 other states. Why? 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. 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. "[23] Harding was granted another restraining order and filed for divorce. Smith told Gillooly he could solve "problems," and Gillooly said he wanted Kerrigan out of the National Championships so Harding could win an Olympic gold medal. Jan. 4, 1994: On the way to Detroit for the U.S. Sept. 12, 1994: Gillooly enters the Oregon SUMMIT prison boot camp program. Both women competed in the 1994 Olympics, and Harding was later banned for life from USFSA figure skating events. He was 40. As Rogers wrote in the LA Times, Gillooly and Harding had different ideas about how everything went down. Jan. 9, 1994: Detroit police release composite drawings of man suspected of attacking Kerrigan. The new Hollywood movie on the ice skating caper, the Fargo-esque and well-received I, Tonya is changing that. I, Tonya opened theatrically in the United States on December 8, 2017.. I don't want to lose him. She was not charged in the indictment due to the terms of her March 16 plea agreement.[86][8]. In 1970s Portland, Oregon, four year-old Tonya Harding is forced to ice skate by her abusive mother, LaVona. It also read that Harding, Gillooly, Eckardt, Smith, and Stant agreed to "knowingly cause physical injury by means of a dangerous weapon." In this Jan. 12, 1992, file photo, Tonya Harding, left, and Nancy Kerrigan appear at the U.S. He was the man who allegedly taped the conversation in which the plan to attack Kerrigan was hatched. [41] Gillooly said he would phone her after the meeting, and Harding then drove to Gillooly's mother's house. Eckardt then set up the attack on Kerrigan with a hit man, Shane Stant, and Derrick Smith, Stant's uncle. Harding, who finished eighth at the 94 Olympics, was the subject of intense media scrutiny during the event in Lillehammer because of the alleged plot by her husband. [30][38] On December 27, Harding phoned her friend Vera Marano, a Pennsylvania figure skating writer, saying she and Gillooly had a "bet" about where Nancy Kerrigan trained. Mark Eckardt Found 18 people in California, Illinois and 17 other states. June 23, 2010: Harding, 39, marries, Joseph Jens Price, 42, in Clark County, Wash. (She later told Inside Edition it was she who proposed: "It was at his birthday party. 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.' "[73][74] Gillooly and Eckardt pleaded guilty to racketeering, while Stant and Smith pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree assault. The New York Times, which announced his death, called him Brian Sean Griffith, which Eckardt. Smith was waiting in a car outside and acted as a getaway driver. When asked what he wanted people to know about her, Price replied, "She's kind, she's loving, she's a little rough around the edges. 12 Dec 2007 (aged 40) Burial. "Eckardt is a very intelligent idiot," said Jerry Spires, a private investigator who was one of Eckardt's instructors at Pioneer Pacific College in nearby Wilsonville. [70] The panel examined evidence including the testimonies of Stant and Smith, Harding and Gillooly's telephone records, and notes found in a Portland saloon trash bin on January 30. But to the attorney representing Gillooly, Eckardt is a man who "led a fantasy life," and performed only one job as a bodyguard to Harding. If she had been suspended, she likely still would have competed at the Olympics after filing suit, seeking an injunction against the USFSA, and asserting her rights under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978. And it was Eckardt's apparent remorse for the assault that led him to play a tape of the conversation for a local minister. To his attorney, Eckardt "wasn't smart enough" to plot the clubbing of Kerrigan. I got down on one knee and asked him to marry me." As Bender attempts to sabotage her performance by filling her tap shoes with tacks in the locker room, Tonya catches him in the act, and breaks his leg with a nightstick in a similar manner to the attack on Kerrigan. He claimed that he then phoned Eckardt to cancel the deal. A judge places her on probation for three years and orders her to pay $160,000 in fines and contributions. [23] On October 2, at approximately 3 a.m., neighbours of the couple called the police when they heard them arguing outside and a single gunshot. On December 31, Stant drove to Yarmouth, Massachusetts, reaching the Tony Kent Arena that afternoon. Eckardt is dead. The questions are being debated by lawyers and law-enforcement officials as the investigation continues. Kerrigan was then carried away to a changing room by her father. When Kerrigan hosted Saturday Night Live in 1994 after the Winter Olympics in which the figure skater ended up winning the silver medal Chris Farley and Rob Schneider parodied Eckardt and Gillooly, respectively. . Schatz asked Harding whether someone she knew could have planned the attack. Harding ultimately. [77] Eckardt died in 2007. 1940) and Albert Harding (1933-2009). [43], On December 22, 1993, Eckardt received a call from his friend Derrick Smith who lived in Phoenix, Arizona. "[a] This footage was later broadcast around the world in news programs. Oct. 7, 1994: The Tonya Harding Fan Club, which grew to nearly 2,000 members during this Olympic year, begins disbanding. [38], On December 28, he and Stant were in Portland to discuss the attack plan. [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. To see all content on The Sun, please use the Site Map. According to him, she knew about the meeting and was anxious about Gillooly talking to dangerous people. "But he kind of wanted to make more of himself then he was. [44] Eckardt claimed he had a contract to disable a female figure skater issued by her rival's husband, that it involved good money because one of the rival's sponsors was George Steinbrenner. "I know Eric. GettyUS figure skaters Tonya Harding (L) and Nancy Kerrigan avoid each other during a training session 17 February in Hamar, Norway, during the Winter Olympics. When asked about Gillooly, Harding said: "I never did anything to hurt . [19] In 1988, the couple moved into a home together, and Harding claimed she began experiencing physical abuse from Gillooly. Nothing materializes. That January, an assailant clubbed Kerrigan in the knee, forcing her out of the competition. The now 47-year-old says she overheard her then-husband Jeff. Shane Stant was one of the most notorious figures in the 1990s because he was nabbed for being the actual attacker of Nancy Kerrigan. He said he was also upset for her and later spoke about figure skating politics to his friend Shawn Eckardt. Brian Sean Griffith, a former bodyguard to figure skater Tonya Harding who admitted a role in the attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan during Olympics tryouts, has died. When the 33-year-old discovered the khaki green military-style backpack containing the device - a pipe bomb weighing at least 18kg that would turn out to be the biggest of its kind ever seen by the FBI at the time - he did everything he had been trained to do. He lived for more than a decade after the infamous attack plunged him into the headlines. It's been nearly 20 years since Kerrigan was clubbed after practice in Detroit by a member of a bumbling goon squad hired by Harding's ex-husband with the hope of eliminating his former wife's top competition for the U.S. Olympic team. Gillooly and Harding were surprised that Eckardt's mother seemed to know about the plot too. Death. For those unfamiliar with the story, a brief recapping, pardon the pun. "Shawn was the kind of guy you saw in high school or at the bus stop who's in his own world. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. During her first artistic performance, she stops when a skate shoelace breaks. She declares her innocence and wishes Gillooly well. Eckardt hid the tape recorder on his desk under a paper towel. Menu. In March 1994, after key evidence was found in a dumpster, Harding pleaded guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution of her husband and the others involved. Neither Harding nor her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, has been charged in the case. We pay for your stories! [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. 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. 12, 1994: Eckardt confesses to the FBI, implicating Harding, Gillooly, and two of Eckardt's friends, Stant and Derrick B. Smith. To some degree, his name faded away with more prominent figures. 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