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...judge must have been listening. Cedarbaum gave her the most lenient sentence possible under federal guidelines--five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five months of house arrest. Was Stewart surprised? "Not at all," she said defiantly as she left the courtroom. But Wall Street was impressed, sending the stock surging 37%, closing at $11.81, on news of the light sentence...
...courthouse last week, Martha Stewart put on a brave face, smiling for the cameras before ducking into her black SUV. But if her appeal process is exhausted, Stewart's new life will be no cakewalk. She will most probably spend her five-month sentence at a minimum-security "prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12¢ an hour...
...Stewart may be able to employ some of her homemaking skills. She could be put on food service or groundskeeping. "I think she'll make the five months in prison a major life experience," says society columnist Dominick Dunne, a friend. "She's not going to sit and mope for five months. I bet she leaves that prison a very popular woman...
...could do it. I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground." MARTHA STEWART, after her sentencing, when asked by Barbara Walters if she could cope with prison life...
SENTENCED. MARTHA STEWART, queen of domestic advice and former ImClone shareholder; to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators over her sale of the company's stock; in New York City (see page...