Martha: On Trial, In Jail, and On a Comeback

Last updated October 31, 2026

By Robert Slater

Robert Slater chronicles Martha Stewart's fall and recovery in the early 2000s, from the media and merchandising business she built around home and cooking to her legal troubles. He describes her 2004 conviction for lying to investigators about a stock sale, her five months in a federal prison camp in West Virginia and her return to rebuild her company and her television career.

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