NEW YORK (AP) – Martha Stewart tells Fortune Magazine she plans to sell her famous Turkey Hill Farm in Westport, Conn.
“I hardly ever go there anymore. I don’t miss it,” Stewart, 64, told the magazine.
Stewart now spends most of her time at her home in Katonah, N.Y., a 153-acre estate in the rolling horse country 40 miles north of midtown Manhattan. She bought the property in 2000 for $16 million.
Stewart had been a fixture in Westport since 1971, when she and her former husband, Andrew, purchased the nine-room, 19th-century Colonial house and gated Turkey Hill estate for $50,000, town land records show. They spent the next decade renovating the home and added chicken coops, barns and gardens.
But in 2000, Stewart said Westport had changed from a small town where butchers knew their customers’ names to a place with a “more elitist, and much less charming, retail scheme.”
After serving five months in jail for lying about a 2001 stock sale, which was followed by nearly six months of house arrest, the lifestyle guru says she feels resilient.
“I have learned that I really cannot be destroyed,” she said.
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