Tonia Haddix is at the center of yearslong controversy over her ownership of Tonka, a chimpanzee who starred in Hollywood movies Emily Krauser is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at ...

After being cloistered in a basement cage for nearly a year, Tonka just wanted to be outside. Though caretakers had set up a cozy space filled with hammocks and blankets for the chimpanzee, upon ...

ST. LOUIS — Tonia Haddix, the woman at the center of HBO documentary "Chimp Crazy," could spend years in prison after admitting to lying multiple times about an animal actor living in her facility ...

“I would give anything that I have, possession-wise, for that child. I would give my life for him,” Tonia Haddix says in a trailer for HBO’s “Chimp Crazy” docuseries. She’s talking about Tonka, the 32 ...