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Tonya Harding's roomie jailed for assault

YACOLT, Wash., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Figure skater-turned-boxer Tonya Harding claimed she was attacked by masked men at her Yacolt, Wash., area home -- but it was her boyfriend who was arrested.

When authorities answered Harding's 911 call for help Sunday night, they found her with a cut over her eye and an abrasion on her cheek, the Portland Oregonian reported.

Harding's boyfriend and roommate, Christopher J. Nolan, 27, told deputies the scrappy skater drank too much, shoved him into to their gravel driveway and bit his finger.

Harding, 34, backed off her masked men report and said the cat scratched Nolan's finger and he attacked her.

Nolan spent the night in jail on a charge of fourth-degree domestic assault.

Harding was stripped of her 1994 U.S. Figure Skating national title for her role in the infamous attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

Harding's boxing career has been a little rocky as well -- she withdrew from a bout earlier this year after her opponent turned out to be a transvestite.


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