ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, December 25, 1995 TAG: 9512260041
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 7 EDITION: HOLIDAY
COLUMN: The People Column
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
Tonya Harding set sail for the quiet life Saturday as she married her fiance aboard a yacht in Portland, Ore.
The former figure-skating champ emerged from a white limousine and was quickly wrapped in a white blanket as friends and a security guard led her to the yacht on the Willamette River. The ceremony was private.
Harding said she looks forward to starting a family with machinist Michael Smith and someday living on a farm.
``I'm very happy, and I hope to keep it that way,'' she said.
It was the fourth marriage for Smith, 29, and the second for Harding, 25.
Her first husband, Jeff Gillooly, now known as Jeff Stone, admitted plotting the Jan. 6, 1994, knee-bashing of Harding rival Nancy Kerrigan.
When asked if she would say where that honeymoon would be, she replied, ``Do you think I'm stupid?''
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