Martha Stewart talks insider trading scandal

An unrepentant Martha Stewart discusses the rise and fall of her career with her 2004 criminal conviction in the trailer for MartaRJ Cutler’s documentary about the lifestyle mogul coming to Netflix on October 30.

“I was a trophy for these idiots,” says a spiky Stewart in the teaser chronicling her famous rise from teen model to lifestyle influencer, reality TV host and self-made billionaire, before that the domestic doyenne spend five months in prison for her. role in an insider trading scandal and trial.

Stewart was convicted of obstruction of justice and lying to the government about why she unloaded stock just before the price plummeted. “Those prosecutors should have been put in a Cuisinart and turned on,” the house icon adds to the film that bowed at Sundance.

The doc for The September issue The director features intimate interviews with Stewart, who on his return from criminal disgrace today hosts dinner parties as Snoop Dogg’s friend on the VH1 cooking show. Martha and Snoop’s Potluck Dinner.

The Marta The trailer is filled with footage of Stewart in his early years of fame, before his conviction curtailed his reign of business empire and celebrity fame. “I had to climb out of a hole,” he argues of his celebrity survival and reinvention in the trailer, which reveals a tougher Stewart.

“The cookie-cutter house and the cookie-cutter life, that wasn’t for me,” she tells Cutler as the trailer includes footage of her earlier years cooking and baking in the original. The Martha Stewart Show and the odd combination of house icons and gangsta rap/hip-hop on his most recent VH1 cooking show.

“…What remains Marta It’s fascinating to see Cutler push and stick with his subject.” The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Daniel Feinberg said in his review of Marta earlier this year. “The prolific documentarian has made movies with the likes of Anna Wintour and Dick Cheney, so he knows about thorny stars, and Martha Stewart has a heroine with enough power and well earned, don’t. He’ll just say exactly what he means in the context in which he means it”.

Marta is produced by Jane Cha Cutler, Alino Cho, Austin Wilkin, Cutler and Trevor Smith.