Aside from her professional achievements, Martha has also received international media coverage for her involvement in the ImClone stock trading case for which she was convicted, resulting in a heavy fine and prison time.
In the year 1999, she founded the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia company that now holds major investments in business segments of internet, publishing, broadcasting and merchandising. Later in her career, Martha has gone on to enter in several business fields like writing, publishing, merchandising and e-commerce, where she has managed to achieve great success. Having started her professional career as a model, she switched her career to a stockbroker in 1967 and became one of the earliest female stockbrokers on Wall Street. Martha Stewart is a renowned TV personality, businesswoman and writer.