Latest / Fresh Intelligence / EXCLUSIVE: Martha Stewart Reveals Costly Fallout From Insider Trading
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- 0:00[SPEAKER_00]: Martha Stewart has confessed her infamous legal battle, left a billion dollar hole in her fortune.
- 0:07[SPEAKER_00]: The 85-year-old home-making queen stunned listeners of the other people's business podcast with this revelation.
- 0:15[SPEAKER_00]: Stewart explained why she doesn't own a private, jet-like fellow entrepreneur Kim Kardashian.
- 0:21[SPEAKER_00]: She said,
- 0:27[SPEAKER_00]: She continued, the lawyers took me to the cleaners and they were horrible.
- 0:32[SPEAKER_00]: This hole was dug during the fallout from her early 2000s stock trading scandal.
- 0:37[SPEAKER_00]: In 2004, she was convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice, serving five months in federal prison.
- 0:45[SPEAKER_00]: The scandal sent shockwaves through her successful media and merchandising empire.
- 0:51[SPEAKER_00]: Before the scandal, she made around $65 million a year from her K-Mart deals alone.
- 0:58[SPEAKER_00]: Now she insists she's clawed her way back, embracing the influencer landscape.
- 1:04[SPEAKER_00]: Stuart declared, I'm back, emphasizing the lucrative nature of her current television commercials.