Martha Stewart is an American business magnate, author, magazine publisher, and television personality. As founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she has gained success through a variety of business ventures, encompassing publishing, broadcasting, and merchandising. She has written numerous bestselling books, is the publisher of Martha Stewart Living magazine, and her syndicated talk show, Martha, is broadcast throughout the world. In 2004, she was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock sale and served five months in a West Virginia federal prison. Although the media widely... speculated that the situation would effectively be the end of her media empire, Stewart began a comeback campaign in 2005, with her company returning to profitability the following year. Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to middle-class Polish American parents, Edward "Eddie" Kostyra and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra . She lived in Jersey City until the age of 3, when her family moved to Nutley. She was raised in Nutley along with her five siblings.
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