HBO will likely be premiering the two-part documentary “The Golden Boy” overlaying the trials and tribulations of Oscar De La Hoya’s life and profession on back-to-back nights beginning July 24.
De La Hoya was one in every of boxing’s largest stars and field workplace attracts instantly after an Olympics gold medal win in 1992, and all the way in which till he retired in 2008.
De La Hoya turned a ten-time world champion throughout six divisions and was honored with induction into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame.
He additionally battled his share of demons outdoors of the ring because of drug and alcohol abuse.
In 2007, notorious photographs had been leaked by Siberian unique dancer Milana Dravnel displaying a sequence of cross-dressing photographs that includes De La Hoya.
De La Hoya made positive to handle the scandal through the documentary and are available clear in regards to the ordeal.
“I talked about every thing. I talked about these well-known photographs too. That is really the very first thing I wished on the market after I determined to do that. I mentioned, ‘I am prepared to speak about no matter you need me to speak about. My life is an open e-book,’” De La Hoya mentioned in an interview with Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour.”
“The lingerie, the this and that. I will let you know what. We acquired that woman from New York that leaked these photographs. I am not going to get into it, however we discovered her someplace in [Lake Atitlán, Guatemala] hiding out and she or he mentioned the reality of precisely what occurred … apparently there have been like three ladies there. I’ve no recollection. I used to be simply loaded. I can not bear in mind. I used to be drugged up, ingesting, this and that.
“Oh yeah [I got someone to say it was fake]. In fact. I’ve a complete machine behind me on the peak of my profession, proper. We’re like ‘holy sh!t – how are we going to make this stuff disappear?’ Let’s rent this forensic. I do not know what he was. He is going by means of every thing. And we persuade him with cash to say that they had been pretend. And the world believed that they had been Photoshopped, and we had been residence free. And guess what occurs? I am married on the time. My spouse is offended at me. She’s fed up with me as a result of I’m left and proper dishonest on her, and this and that. She convinces me to go on nationwide TV [in 2011] and inform the reality.”
In separate interviews main as much as the debut of the HBO documentary, De La Hoya has shared that he paid off folks in order that the images wouldn’t be leaked – in addition to paying $20 million to Dravnel – however the photographs had been leaked anyway.
“[My team] instructed me this story in regards to the Russian mob and this and that and [how] we gotta pay tens of millions of {dollars},” De La Hoya instructed ET earlier this week. “I am like, ‘Yeah, nicely, simply make it go away. It is gonna destroy my picture. It is gonna destroy who the Golden Boy is and individuals are gonna hate me. Simply make it go away.’
“That is the story that they instructed me, is that my lawyer on the time needed to bounce right into a rooftop pool in New York with one of many Russian mobsters to ensure that they didn’t have wires related to their physique. And positive sufficient, apparently, they paid all this cash, however but the photographs nonetheless leaked. So, I by no means actually investigated all that. I by no means knew precisely what actually occurred. The documentary sheds a bit of bit of sunshine on it, but it surely’s all complicated to me.”
Dravnel ended up suing De La Hoya for $100 million claiming she was defamed and topic to emotional misery after promoting the photographs and pressured to recant the legitimacy of them.
The swimsuit was settled out of courtroom for an undisclosed sum.
