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Martha Stewart leaves prison
Stewart, the billionaire lifestyle expert whose life has been consumed by scandal in recent years, was released at 12:30 a.m. Friday from a federal prison in Alderson. She left the prison in a dark sport/utility vehicle and headed straight for a local airport, where a chartered plane took her to New York.
Martha Stewart leaves prison
A little more than two hours after her release, Stewart arrived at her home in Bedford, about 45 miles north of New York City. She'd spent the last five months at the Alderson minimum-security prison for women known as "Camp Cupcake."
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Stewart's conviction on charges that she lied to government investigators about her sale of ImClone stock in late 2001. She was sentenced last summer to five months in prison and five months of home arrest, followed by two years of probation.
She will now serve the home detention portion of her sentence at her 153-acre Bedford estate, which she bought in 2000 for $16 million and has since been renovating.
She made no public statements in Greenbrier or at the Westchester airport. But in a statement posted on www.marthastewart.com, she called her incarceration both "life altering and life affirming." She said she was "thrilled to be returning to my more familiar life." "There is," she wrote, "no place like home."
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