Nicole Bobek Spins On The Ice

Nicole Bobek, the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating Champion, is now living in Jupiter, Florida with her mother, working in a store selling fancy soaps and trinkets to tourists.  Jana, her mother, who was herself a figure skater in her native Czechoslovakia, owns the store, called Belle Maison. The store is in a strip mall in this south Florida town not far from Palm Beach.

Bobek is free on $100,000 bail, (posted by her mother), and is waiting to find out what the prosecution’s next move is going to be.  She spends her time working in her mom’s store, which was opened with Nicole’s skating money back in her glory days.  According to the story written by an ESPN reporter, Nicole is once more blonde, and appears cheerful and friendly, as her fans would remember her.  But her face still contains the pockmarks that shocked the world in her mug shot photo after her arrest for alleged involvement in a meth distribution ring.  Bobek cannot speak about the legal case on the advice of her attorney.

In August, 2009, authorities announced the arrest of four more people associated with the meth ring Bobek is alleged to be involved in.  These arrests bring to 20 the number of people arrested to this point in the Bobek meth ring case.

Links:

New arrests linked to meth ring–NJ.com, August 20, 2009

Nicole Bobek: Falling through ice: The trials, tribulations and allegedly felonious behavior of a former figure skating star–ESPN.com. August 11, 2009

What’s next for Nicole Bobek?–by Jackie Wong, Figure Skating Examiner, August 17, 2009