Editing Sonja Henie (section)

===Personal life===
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| image1 = [https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/9n0s2000zz-89112 '''Sonja Henie'''] with her art collection in Los Angeles, 1964. Her collection is now held by the [[Henie Onstad Kunstsenter|Henie Onstad Art Centre]]. }}

Henie was married three times: to [[Dan Topping]] (1940–1946), Winthrop Gardiner Jr. (1949–1956),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/10/18/archives/winthrop-gardiner-jr-dies-at-67-formerly-owned-gardiners-island.html|title=Obituary: "Winthrop Gardiner, Jr."|work=The New York Times|date=18 October 1980|url-access=subscription|access-date=22 July 2018|archive-date=15 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115112601/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20715F63D5512728DDDA10994D8415B8084F1D3|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Niels Onstad]] (1956–1969), a Norwegian shipping magnate and art patron. After her retirement in 1956, Henie and Onstad settled in Oslo and accumulated a large collection of modern art that formed the basis for the Henie Onstad Art Centre at [[Høvikodden]] in [[Bærum]] near [[Oslo]].

She studied in [[Oslo]] together with [[Martin Stixrud]] and [[Erna Andersen]] who was her competitor and skate club member.<ref name=life>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0oEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39|title=LIFE|date=23 December 1940|publisher=Time Inc|page=39|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-date=31 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531151027/https://books.google.com/books?id=P0oEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39|url-status=live}}</ref>

Henie was diagnosed with [[chronic lymphocytic leukemia]] in the mid-1960s.<ref>{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=sQklCwAAQBAJ&q=chronic+lymphocytic+leukemia+sonja+henie&pg=PA197|title = Robbins and Cotran Review of Pathology E-Book|isbn = 9780323261982|last1 = Klatt|first1 = Edward C.|last2 = Kumar|first2 = Vinay|date = 3 September 2014| publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |access-date = 28 October 2020|archive-date = 31 May 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220531225749/https://books.google.com/books?id=sQklCwAAQBAJ&q=chronic+lymphocytic+leukemia+sonja+henie&pg=PA197|url-status = live}}</ref> She died of the disease at age 57 in 1969 in an [[ambulance plane]] flight from [[Paris]] to [[Oslo]].<ref name=sr/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0408.html|title=Sonja Henie, Skating Star, Dies|date=13 October 1969|work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808064102/http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0408.html|archive-date=8 August 2017}}</ref> She is buried with Onstad in Oslo on the hilltop overlooking the Henie Onstad Art Centre.