Editing Tony Halme (section)

==Personal life==
Halme began his [[Conscription in Finland|compulsory military service]] on October 1983, at the military base of {{ill|Pioneeripuisto|fi}} in [[Koria]], Finland. Halme received several travel bans because he did not return from vacation on time and was also guilty of maltreatment.

Halme had a ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' tattoo on his calf.<ref name="sstat">{{cite web|url=https://411mania.com/wrestling/jim-ross-breast-implants-ludvig-borga-nazi-tattoo|title=Jim Ross Discusses If He Ever Encouraged Female Talent in WWE To Get Breast Implants, Talks Ludvig Borga's Nazi Tattoo|work=411Mania.com|date=January 24, 2020}}</ref> Borga was made to put tape over the tattoo when he wrestled in the WWF.

In 1993, Halme divorced his American wife, Adriana Estrada, whom he had met in the U.S. in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihdeuutiset/a/043f7cd9-df1d-47ee-8df2-e2ae0646e693 |title=Uutuuskirja: Tony Halmeen amerikkalainen ex-vaimo puhuu nyt suunsa puhtaaksi karusta liitosta: "Rakastin, samaan aikaan vihasin" |last=Hopi |first=Anna |date=October 28, 2024 |website=[[Iltalehti]] |language=fi |access-date=December 9, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107153605/https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihdeuutiset/a/043f7cd9-df1d-47ee-8df2-e2ae0646e693 |archive-date=November 7, 2024}}</ref> With the help of the marriage, Halme got a [[green card]] for the United States. From 1998 to 2005, he was married to Katja Talus.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.is.fi/viihde/art-2000000086062.html |title=Tony ja Katja Halme eroavat |date=10 June 2005 |website=[[Ilta-Sanomat]] |language=fi |access-date=15 December 2024}}</ref> 

During his years in the U.S., Halme was convicted of firearm offenses in the 1990s, and in February 1999, he was in the [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] detention center, Los Angeles, for two weeks before he was deported from the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/d6ba3dd8-f615-4359-8e8b-68a32cdf5f89 |title=Uutuuskirjan karut paljastukset Tony Halmeesta: Rikoksia sekä Yhdysvalloissa että Suomessa |last=Koskinen |first=Mika |date=October 28, 2024 |website=[[Iltalehti]] |language=fi |access-date=December 9, 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241209093334/https://www.iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/d6ba3dd8-f615-4359-8e8b-68a32cdf5f89 |archive-date=December 9, 2024}}</ref>

On July 4, 2003, a handgun was fired inside Halme's apartment.<ref name="mtvfi">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/artikkeli/tony-halme-epailtyna-ampumatapauksessa/1985834|title=Tony Halme epäiltynä ampumatapauksessa|work=mtv.fi|language=fi|date=4 July 2003|access-date=11 August 2016}}</ref> No one was injured, but the gun was unlicensed. Halme was subsequently hospitalized, as he had only days before been in a boxing match and was using prescription painkillers, but his blood had additionally contained trace amounts of [[amphetamine]]s, while a police search of his House of Parliament office turned up illegal steroids. Halme claimed that somebody had put the amphetamines into his drink without his knowledge. In January 2004, his trial was broadcast live on television by the [[MTV3]] [[digital television]] channel. Halme received a four-month suspended sentence and a fine,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20040130IE3|title=HS Home 30.1.2004 - Four-month suspended sentence for MP Tony Halme|website=Hs.fi|access-date=2016-02-04|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172405/http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20040130IE3|archive-date=March 3, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> but continued to serve as Member of Parliament. In 2006, he was convicted for [[Driving under the influence|driving while impaired]].

In early March 2006, Halme was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital, reportedly due to [[delirium]] caused by excessive alcohol use. Earlier in 2006 he had been diagnosed with alcohol-related [[cirrhosis]] and [[acute pancreatitis]]. After spending almost the entire year of 2006 on sick leave, he went on disability pension at end of the Parliamentary term.

In December 2009, Halme told a newspaper that he was suffering from impairment of his short-term memory and had trouble remembering anything, but was still trying to write a book on his political career.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1863437|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120803144832/http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/uutinen.asp?id=1863437|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 3, 2012|title=Tony Halmeen kuolema: Halme oli kirjoittamassa kirjaa -|work=Ilta-Sanomat|language=fi|date=January 10, 2010}}</ref>