Abigale Miller bio

Abigale Lee Miller(born September 21, 1965) is an American choreographer, dance instructor and reality TV personality. She is the founder of the Abby Lee Dance Company, that was a part of the reality show Dance Moms for eight seasons. Miller admitted guilt on June 27th, 2016 to criminal bankruptcy fraud. Miller was sentenced for one and a half years in federal prison. She was released on the 27th of March 2018. In April of 2018 she was diagnosed with lymphoma. the type of cancer that caused her to be unable to walk. She relies on a wheelchair for mobility. Miller grew up in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania. Her teacher was her mother at Maryen Lorrain Dance Studio. Miller at the age of 14 was tasked with choreography and the coaching of one of her mother's dance competition teams. Miller eventually assumed control of the studioand changed its name to Reign Dance Productions. Miller became certified by Dance Masters of America and became a part of Dance Masters of Pennsylvania Chapter #10 in 1986, but her membership was terminated in February 2012 and the DMA saying that Miller's reality-TV program Dance Moms was "a total deflection of our dance instructors and their students and is detrimental to the dance profession."