Tonia Haddix , the star of HBO ’s Chimp Crazy , was sentenced to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice charges for faking the death of her beloved chimpanzee Tonka.

The eccentric exotic animal broker had been hoping for a significantly lighter sentence, just one year instead of the four-and-half-year sentence Missouri District Judge Stephen R. Clark handed down Thursday.

But there was no denying that Haddix had blatantly lied to the court about Tonka’s death after she was filmed bursting into tears while telling a judge about how the ape died of heart failure in 2021, only to run down to her basement and celebrate with the chimp a few minutes later. That very scene, among others in the four-part docuseries, was submitted to the court as grou

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