Jeff Gillooly

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Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone) is the ex-husband of former ice skating star Tonya Harding. He is best known for being found guilty of conspiring with Shawn Eckardt in hiring Shane Stant to attack rival skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly and Harding married in 1990 and divorced in 1993.

On July 14, 1994, he was sentenced to two years in prison. After his release, he and the two other conspirators publicly severed all ties with Harding.

In Harding's 2008 book The Tonya Tapes she alleges that he and two other men gang raped her at gunpoint then said "you're not going to be here anymore" if she revealed what she knew about the Kerrigan attack. Stone called the allegations "utterly ridiculous".^[1]

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Because this was announced around the time of Congressional leader Newt Gingrich's peak of popularity, Jay Leno announced on the Tonight Show that Jeff Gillooly had changed his name to Newt Gillooly.

In an episode of Seinfeld called "The Understudy", Jerry reports that attendees of his act yell "Gillooly" at him after his friend George accidentally injures Bette Midler while Jerry is dating Midler's understudy.

In an episode of Family Guy, Peter and Lois go to see The Vagina Monologues and the performer mentions that since the government has not been able to find Osama bin Laden, they have a new tactic to hire Jeff Gillooly.

Gillooly achieved a modicum of notoriety when a sex tape surfaced of him and Tonya Harding on their wedding night, which wasn't their actual wedding night.

Gillooly is also referenced in an episode of The Nanny called I Don't Remember Mama. During a talent competition, Fran Fine refuses to go back into a magician's saw-the-lady-in-half box that Grace Sheffield and she had practiced in at home. Instead, she tells Grace, "We're going to have to switch to plan B ... Call Gillooly", implying that they would instead need to eliminate their competition.

Gillooly was the subject of a comedic song / video suggesting that the only way to stop the 2007 New England Patriots season from going perfect was to "Go Gillooly" and injure their starting quarterback Tom Brady's knee [1]

In an episode of Kenny vs Spenny, one of Spenny's rules was "no Gilloolyisms" - meaning no sabotage of the competition by physically harming the other competitor.