Abigale Le Miller bio

Abigale Lee Mills (born September 21 1965) was an American dance instructor, choreographer, and reality television host. Abby Lee Dance Company is her idea, and it was a reality show that aired for eight seasons on Dance Moms. Miller confessed on June 27, 2016 to the charge of felony bankruptcy fraud. She was sentenced for one year and a day in federal prison, and released on March 27 in 2018. In April of 2018 she was diagnosed with lymphoma, a form of cancer that made her unable to walk. In order to move about, she now uses wheelchair. Miller has been a dancer since childhood in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, located in a Pittsburgh suburb. She was studying under her mother's direction at the Maryen Lorrain Dance Studio. At the age of 14 years old, Miller was assigned the task to choreograph and coach one of her mother's dance competition teams. Miller was given the reins of the studio and renamed Reign Dance Productions in 1995. Miller was recognized as a certified dancer by Dance Masters of America in 1986, and became an active member of Dance Masters of Pennsylvania Chapter 10 in February 2012. However, her membership was terminated by DMA in February 2012, after the DMA stated that Miller's reality-TV series Dance Moms was "a complete distortion of dance educators and students and was detrimental to the dance industry."