Abby Lee Miller
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Abby Lee Miller (born September 21, 1966) is an American dance instructor, choreographer, and the director and owner of Reign Dance Productions. She is also the founder of the Abby Lee Dance Company and appears on the reality television series Dance Moms.
Miller was born on September 21, 1966, in Miami to Maryen Lorrain, a dance teacher, and George L. Miller.
Miller grew up around dance in Penn Hiils, Pennsylvania, a Pittsburgh suburb, studying under her mother's direction at the Maryen Lorrain Dance Studio. Miller eventually took over the studio 1995 and renamed it Reign Dance Productions. She became certified by Dance Masters of America and became a member of Dance Masters of Pennsylvania Chapter #10 in 1986, but her membership was terminated in February 2012, with DMA saying Miller's reality-TV show Dance Moms was "a total misrepresentation of our dance educators and their students and is detrimental to the dance profession."
Miller began to appear in the 2011 Lifetime reality television show Dance Moms. The show is on its seventh season and has had 187 episodes so far.Dance Moms follows the practice sessions and performance competitions of young students of the Abby Lee Dance Company.
Three spin-offs of Dance Moms are Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition, which ran for 2 seasons and 22 episodes,Dance Moms: Miami, and Dance Moms: Abby's Studio Rescue. The latter ran for only 7 episodes. Miller has also been a guest judge on Dancing with the Stars. In 2014, Miller published a book, Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class.
In 2015, Miller opened a new studio set up in Los Angeles called ALDC LA. The cast of Dance Moms moved to LA. On March 27, 2017, Miller quit the show in an Instagram rant.
In December 2010, Miller filed for bankruptcy and owed more than $400,000 in taxes.
Miller began to encounter numerous legal issues in 2014. One of the dancers on Dance Moms sued Miller, charging assault. The suit further claims the show's producers encourage a violent and combative atmosphere on the show as a way to attract viewers. A five million dollar lawsuit was filed against Collins Avenue Entertainment for staging disagreements that ended in a fight between Kelly Hyland and Miller. Paige Hyland also filed an emotional distress lawsuit against Miller. The charges were dropped on the emotional distress lawsuit, because the judge sided with Miller, as Miller had done nothing emotionally damaging to the child beyond what is normal of high quality dance instructors.
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