Personal Life
On November 27, 2006, Gentry pleaded guilty to a charge of falsely tagging a tame bear that was killed in a fenced enclosure as if it had been killed in the wild. Under the plea agreement, he agreed to pay a $15,000 fine, give up hunting, fishing and trapping in Minnesota for 5 years, and forfeit both the stuffed bear and the bow used to shoot the animal in 2004. Gentry posted a statement on the duo's website on November 9, 2010, apologizing for his actions.
In November 2010, Montgomery told Great American Country that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The cancer was successfully removed a month later. The same month, his wife, Tracy, announced their divorce, and served his papers at Eddie Montgomery's Steakhouse, a restaurant he owns in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The two had four children and had been married for over 20 years. At first, Montgomery posted to Twitter and Facebook that she divorced him because she did not want to "cope with his illness", which she later denied.
Troy Gentry married Angie McClure in late 1999. They have one daughter named Kaylee, born in November 2002; Gentry also has an older daughter, Taylor, from a previous marriage.
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters ‘woman’s peculiar sphere,’ her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
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