Jeff Gillooly is the ex-husband of former ice skating star Tonya Harding. They married in 1990, and divorced in 1993. In 1994, he was found guilty of conspiring with accomplice, Shawn Eckardt , in hiring Shane Stant to attack rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

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.