How Tonya Harding Has Made Money Since the Olympic Scandal

How Tonya Harding Has Made Money Since the Olympic Scandal Tonya Harding's rebound visit has, in all of five weeks, sent the discolored professional skater from honorary pathway of a significant film debut, to the Golden Globes, to the sort of buzz-commendable meetings most assumed has-beens can just dream about. Her arrival to the spotlight, started by the arrival of the new biopic I, Tonya, comes over 20 years after perhaps the most abnormal story in sports history almost gobbled her up (you know, the one where an accessory of Harding's ex assaulted rival skater Nancy Kerrigan in the approached the 1994 Olympics?). Which makes one wonder: What has she been doing in the meantime? Initial, a little foundation: Harding has since quite a while ago asserted numbness of the plot to disrupt Kerrigan, yet concede to frustrating an examination concerning the episode, was fined $160,000, and restricted from contending in novice and Olympic rivalries forever. Sponsorships were additionally off the table. At the stature of the subsequent media free for all, the New York Times solicited a bunch from specialists if Harding had a possibility of scoring any future promoting bargains. Their reaction was a consistent not a chance. Contention makes organizations break out in hives, as indicated by one games advertiser. She has asthma and smokes out in the open, another said. That probably won't turn on anyone aside from Philip Morris. All things considered, Harding figured out how to utilize the contention to further her potential benefit, through paid meetings and TV appearances. One taping, a meeting with Inside Edition in 1994, landed Harding $600,000, as indicated by Newsweek. Those offers immediately blurred, however â€" a Fox communicate that disclosed in 1998 earned her a similarly unimportant $60,000, Entertainment Weekly reports. Harding fiddled with the diversion world for two or three years, first as a coincidental director in genius wrestling and afterward handling a job in the 1996 low spending activity film, Breakaway â€" a presentation that, tsk-tsk, didn't dazzle pundits. It's a disgrace Tonya Harding needed to allow up her normal everyday employment, one wrote in Variety. She additionally showed up on Fox's Celebrity Boxing, in 2002, facing Paula Jones; she proceeded to dispatch a concise vocation as an expert fighter with oneself designated title, America's Bad Girl. But in the wake of losing a battle in 2004, and the open door for a compensation for each view unique, she hung up her boxing gloves for good. As of late, Harding has filled in as a pundit for the TruTV show World's Dumbest… , a COPS-propelled unscripted TV drama with D-list star power any semblance of Gary Busey, Danny Bonaduce, and, well, Tonya Harding. Throughout the years, as well, she has maintained odd sources of income like artwork houses and development work to get by. She's likewise had employments as a welder, a business representative at Sears, and all the more as of late arranging and deck-building occupations. Today, Harding lives in country Washington with her better half, a warming and cooling specialist she wedded in 2010. She here and there joins her significant other on development ventures, however generally fills in as a homemaker to their lone youngster, as indicated by The Hollywood Reporter. Harding got a little charge â€" just $1,500 â€" for letting the essayist of I, Tonya alternative the rights to her story, as per the New York Times. She'll make a level of the film's benefits, yet the previous hero is progressively keen on putting any misinformation to rest, she told the Times: The underlying cash wasn't a lot, only enough for a month's lease truly, and she didn't have the foggiest idea whether it merited the issue. Yet, her operator stated, 'What's the most terrible that could occur?' The most noticeably terrible had just occurred.