1. Martha Joan Hart is a Canadian philanthropist and researcher who is the widow of professional wrestler Owen Hart.
24 Facts About Martha Hart
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Martha Hart later wrote a bestselling book about her husband's life and founded a charity in his name.
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Martha Hart has subsequently been involved in several legal cases involving her husband's image and has worked as a philanthropist and researcher.
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Martha Hart's mother, Joan, battled breast cancer before Martha and her sister Virginia were born; her father left her mother when Martha was young.
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Martha Hart completed two degrees at the University of Calgary in Psychology and Sociology before moving to England to complete a master's degree and a PhD in Social and Development Psychology at Cambridge University.
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Martha Hart has since worked as a university researcher in the area of pediatrics.
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Martha Hart attended a Stampede Wrestling event with a friend, and met Owen after recognizing him as one of the wrestlers who attended her school for a wrestling practice.
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Martha Hart was named the 2017 Goodwill Ambassador for the Monaco International Film Festival.
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Martha Hart has had a long-standing relationship with this non-profit international special interest film festival and is the Monaco International Film Festival's Vice President of the Angel Film Awards.
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Martha Hart presented findings on the program at a number International Attachment Related Conferences in New York, London, Miami, Prague; and in Vancouver.
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Martha Hart completed two degrees at the University of Calgary before moving to England to join the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge where she completed her master's degree and Ph.
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Martha Hart worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge with Ruth Gaunt for several years researching the division of labor in the family and parents' child care choices before joining the team at the University of Calgary.
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Martha Hart was trained to administer the PDI at Yale University and the AAI by Howard Steele and Miriam Steele at the New School University New York, as well as Erik Hesse and Mary Main at Berkeley University.
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Martha Hart is a past recipient of the University of Calgary's Eyes High Post-Doctoral Award.
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In 2017, for Canada's 150th birthday, The Owen Martha Hart Foundation wanted to honor a Canadian artist and therefore featured Sarah McLachlan on December 1,2017, to mark their 18th anniversary.
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Martha Hart has stated that she started the Owen Martha Hart Foundation to create a meaningful legacy for Owen and because she knew he would be happy that she was helping people in his name, especially in the area of education which was very important to both of them.
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In September 2021, the Owen Martha Hart Foundation announced a partnership with All Elite Wrestling to honour Owen Martha Hart's legacy.
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At Double or Nothing in May 2022, Martha Hart appeared at the event to congratulate the Owen Hart Cup's inaugural male and female winners, Adam Cole and Dr Britt Baker; Martha and her children previously were shown on the May 11,2022 episode of AEW Dynamite, but did not have a live television appearance.
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In 2002, Martha Hart started writing a book titled Broken Harts: The Life and Death of Owen Hart that was released in 2004, which is about their life together from when they met as teens and the life they created for their two children.
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Three weeks after Owen's death, Hart launched a wrongful death lawsuit against the WWF by the help of aviation lawyer Gary C Robb; she included her children and Owen's parents on the lawsuit, which was settled out of court for approximately $18 million on November 2,2000.
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Martha Hart set aside millions of the settlement to establish the Owen Hart Foundation.
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Martha Hart criticized those family members who worked against her with the WWF.
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Martha sued Diana and claims that Diana's book, Under the Mat: Inside Wrestling's Greatest Family, is both slanderous and libelous, and had it removed from markets everywhere; Martha was issued a public apology by the publishers, who were required to give an undisclosed amount as a donation to the Owen Hart Foundation as stated in the settlement agreement.
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On June 22,2010, Martha Hart filed another lawsuit against Vince and Linda McMahon, this time for wrongfully using Owen's name and likeness in numerous DVDs under the WWE name, as well as for deceptive business practices, and not paying royalty payments to Owen's estate and his children.