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Martha Stewartknows how to keep the Christmas spirit alive, even while serving five months in a federal penitentiary.
The Martha Stewart Living mogul, 80, is selling a14-piece white-glazed Nativity scene, which is an exact replica of a set she made in pottery class during her infamous stay at West Virginia’s Alderson Federal Prison Camp in 2004.
She also showed off a few pieces from the original set, which are glazed in a drabware color and still marked on the bottom with her inmate identification number.
Stewart has displayed the crèche in her home since 2005, after sheserved five months in prisonfor conspiring with her Merrill Lynch stockbroker todeceive authorities probing her December 2001 sale of stock she owned. She reminisced with PEOPLE last year about making the Nativity set andthe other creative outlets she turned towhile incarcerated.
“Even when I went away for five months, I got through it. I learned how to crochet. I still have the gorgeous crocheted poncho [that I wore leaving prison]. It’s in the attic. And I re-upped my ceramics there,” Stewart said in November 2020. “I had done a lot of ceramics as a child, and we had this fabulous ceramics studio in West Virginia, and I made an entire crèche scene. That’s my best memory.”
TheMartha Knows Besthost toldKatie Couricthat the prison experiencewas “horrifying"during a 2017 episode of Couric’s self-titled podcast.
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“It was horrifying, and no one, no one should have to go through that kind of indignity really except for murderers, and there are a few other categories, but no one should have to go through that,” Stewart said at the time. “It’s a very, very awful thing.”
Stewart’s storied life and careerwill be the subject of an upcoming documentary, from director R.J. Cutler.
source: people.com
