Former Jeopardy! and Millionaire Contestant Indicted on Assault Charges

A former Jeopardy! and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” contestant named Claire Ogilvie has been indicted on numerous charges in connection with an assault upon Nancy Tramontin, the wife of Virginia state lawmaker David Toscano. The attack took place last February, when the 36-year-old Ogilvie broke into the Toscano home and attacked Tramontin. The charges include felony breaking and entering while armed, abduction and malicious wounding.

Ogilvie was a contestant in two matches of the 1998 College Championship on Jeopardy! when she was a sophomore at Yale. On May 6th, she won a quarter-final round, and then appeared in a semi-final match on May 12, but lost and went home with the $5,000 guaranteed semi-finalist prize. Years later, she appeared on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” and won $50,000.

According to the Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Nancy Tramontin revealed that she became acquainted with Ogilvie in 2010 when they were both part of a study-abroad program sponsored by the University of Virginia. Ogilive began to tutor Tramontin’s son and developed a close friendship with the family. However, Ogilvie interest in the family began to take an obsessive turn that led Nancy Tramontin to limit contact with her. Ogilvie was in her first year of teaching at William Monroe High School in Greene County at the time of the attack. She has been in jail since her arrest in February since her attorney deemed it in their “best interest” not to seek bond. Her next court date is in mid-September.