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One of the most-loathed figures in sports history, former figure skater Tanya Harding, is trying to glide back into the limelight and the public's good graces with a new memoir, The Tanya Tapes. According to Newsweek, Harding claims that her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, the man who orchestrated the kneecap busting attack on Nancy Kerrigan in 1994, raped her in order to keep her silent about his crime. "They said, if I didn't cooperate and say exactly what he [Jeff] told me to say, they were going to take me out. I had a gun at the back of my head and [was raped] on the back of a truck … and they told me this is what you are going to say. This is what you are going to do, and if you don't, you're not going to be here anymore," Harding tells Newsweek. Harding has insisted that she knew nothing of Jeff's involvement with the attack until after it was perpetrated. "[She] struggled the most with this conflicting set of circumstances: if she knew nothing about the assault on Kerrigan until after it happened, why was her ex-husband so desperate to keep her quiet that he'd rape and threaten to kill her?" writer Winston Ross ponders. More »
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