{"id":1950641,"date":"2025-08-09T02:53:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1950641"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:53:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T02:53:14","slug":"chimp-crazy-star-sentenced-for-lying-about-primates-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chimp-crazy-star-sentenced-for-lying-about-primates-death\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Chimp Crazy&#8217; Star Sentenced For Lying About Primate&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"218\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EtMDunjOdUs?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\&quot; style=\\&quot;top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\\&quot; allowfullscreen scrolling=\\&quot;no\\&quot; allow=\\&quot;accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\\&quot; id=\\&quot;youtube-embed-EtMDunjOdUs-927\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;KSDK News&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCVHTypjbrXH-maZaIkwweJA&quot;,&quot;cache_age&quot;:86400,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;A judge ordered Tonia Haddix on Thursday to serve 46 months in prison, with three years of supervised release, and pay PETA $224,000 in restitution. 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nearly four years in prison after she lied that a movie star primate that she was accused of mistreating had died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Tonia Haddix, 56, was also ordered Thursday to serve three years of supervised release after her 46-month prison sentence ends. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Haddix, who ran a primate facility the St. Louis suburb of Festus, pleaded guilty in March to two counts of perjury and one of obstructing justice. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>It all started nearly a decade ago, when the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued, saying she was keeping several chimps in \u201cconfined in cramped, virtually barren enclosures\u201d at the now-defunct Missouri Primate Foundation facility. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Among the chimps was Tonka, who appeared in the 1997 movies \u201cBuddy\u201d and \u201cGeorge of the Jungle.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/celebrity-8c07a080291b4deab75adfe1c76985ed\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Actor Alan Cumming\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68966886e4b01cb42fec6c39\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/celebrity-8c07a080291b4deab75adfe1c76985ed\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">Actor Alan Cumming<\/a>, the British-born actor who starred in the movie \u201cBuddy\u201d alongside Tonka, also begged for the primate to be moved. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Haddix signed a consent decree in 2020 agreeing to send four of the chimps to a Florida sanctuary. The order allowed her to keep three others, including Tonka, at a facility she was to build.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>But after a judge found that was not complying with the agreement, authorities arrived in 2021 and removed the remaining chimps, except for Tonka. Haddix claimed Tonka had died and that she had cremated the remains, according to court records.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cI wanted to keep trying to save Tonka if l could. But then he just died on his own, so there was no saving him,\u201d she said, according to court records. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>But Tonka was alive. In 2022, PETA removed him from a cage in the basement of her home in Sunrise Beach, Missouri, near the Lake of the Ozarks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Haddix told the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-courts\/article_1543bb44-5712-4095-92c9-4a518792f856.html\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"St. Louis Post-Dispatch\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68966886e4b01cb42fec6c39\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-courts\/article_1543bb44-5712-4095-92c9-4a518792f856.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/a> in 2022 that she lied to protect Tonka from \u201cthe evil clutches of PETA.\u201d She also admitted what happened in the third episode of \u201cChimp Crazy,\u201d which premiered last year, saying, \u201cTonka was literally on the run with me.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Just last month, investigators found another chimp locked up in the basement of her home in Sunrise Beach in violation of court orders, documents in the case said. 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