Martha Released From Prison

Martha Stewart (news - web sites), the lifestyle trendsetter who built a media empire, is to be released from a West Virginia prison early on March 4, 2005 after serving five months for lying to investigators about a stock trade. Stewart, whose trial and sentencing last year captured national attention, was expected to go to her 153-acre suburban New York estate to resume a whirl of TV and media projects despite having to serve a further five months of house arrest. Stewart is shown outside federal court in New York on March 5, 2004. (Peter Morgan/Reuters