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Larry Nassar
Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American convicted serial sex offender and former family medicine osteopathic physician. He served as a team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Nassar was a team physician at Michigan State University under William Strampel from 1997 to 2016, and multiple student athletes reported his inappropriate behavior.
In 2016, following an eight-month investigation, Nassar was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting at least 265 young women and girls over a 22-year period under the guise of medical treatment. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts.
Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and tampering with evidence on July 11, 2017. On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections, after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of sexual assault. On February 5, 2018, he was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty to an additional three counts of sexual assault in Eaton County.
The judge in charge of the federal case ordered his state and federal sentences to run consecutively, ensuring a de facto sentence of life imprisonment without parole. In the unlikely event that Nassar is still alive when his federal sentence is complete, upon release he will immediately be transferred to a Michigan state prison to serve his two state sentences concurrently.
Nassar is a central figure of the 2020 film Athlete A, a Netflix documentary about the scandal.
Nassar was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to a Catholic Lebanese-American family. In 1978, he began working as a student athletic trainer for the women's gymnastics team at North Farmington High School at age 15. His older brother Mike, an athletic trainer at the school, recommended him. Nassar graduated from North Farmington High School in 1981. He then studied kinesiology at the University of Michigan, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1985. During this time, he worked for the university's football and track and field teams.
In 1993, Nassar graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency training in family practice at St. Lawrence Hospital before completing a fellowship in sports medicine in 1997.
He began working as an assistant professor at MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1997, where he earned $100,000 a year (equivalent to $201,000 in 2025) and worked with many of the current staff and faculty still practicing there. Nassar is listed as a co-author on at least six research papers on the treatment of gymnastics injuries.
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Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American convicted serial sex offender and former family medicine osteopathic physician. He served as a team doctor for the United States women's national gymnastics team from 1996 to 2014, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history. Nassar was a team physician at Michigan State University under William Strampel from 1997 to 2016, and multiple student athletes reported his inappropriate behavior.
In 2016, following an eight-month investigation, Nassar was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting at least 265 young women and girls over a 22-year period under the guise of medical treatment. His victims included numerous Olympic and United States women's national gymnastics team gymnasts.
Nassar was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison on December 7, 2017, after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography and tampering with evidence on July 11, 2017. On January 24, 2018, Nassar was sentenced to an additional 40 to 175 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections, after pleading guilty in Ingham County to seven counts of sexual assault. On February 5, 2018, he was sentenced to an additional 40 to 125 years in Michigan State Prison after pleading guilty to an additional three counts of sexual assault in Eaton County.
The judge in charge of the federal case ordered his state and federal sentences to run consecutively, ensuring a de facto sentence of life imprisonment without parole. In the unlikely event that Nassar is still alive when his federal sentence is complete, upon release he will immediately be transferred to a Michigan state prison to serve his two state sentences concurrently.
Nassar is a central figure of the 2020 film Athlete A, a Netflix documentary about the scandal.
Nassar was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to a Catholic Lebanese-American family. In 1978, he began working as a student athletic trainer for the women's gymnastics team at North Farmington High School at age 15. His older brother Mike, an athletic trainer at the school, recommended him. Nassar graduated from North Farmington High School in 1981. He then studied kinesiology at the University of Michigan, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1985. During this time, he worked for the university's football and track and field teams.
In 1993, Nassar graduated as a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency training in family practice at St. Lawrence Hospital before completing a fellowship in sports medicine in 1997.
He began working as an assistant professor at MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1997, where he earned $100,000 a year (equivalent to $201,000 in 2025) and worked with many of the current staff and faculty still practicing there. Nassar is listed as a co-author on at least six research papers on the treatment of gymnastics injuries.
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