Patty Hearst was jailed there too, before Johnson’s time. Johnson writes though she saw the two well-known inmates walking around, she never personally associated with them. Heidi Fleiss, better known as the Hollywood Madam, was there with Johnson, as was Sara Jane Moore, who was convicted of trying to assassinate President Ford in 1975. She served time in the Federal Correctional Institute in Dublin, California – a place where several well-known people have served time. In 1997, Johnson was sentenced to life behind bars for her role in the Memphis drug operation. She crossed paths with some faces famous in prison She was advanced money for a work trip that she lent to a boyfriend, and when he failed to pay her back and she could not come up with the money herself due to her gambling debt, she was fired.Īs a result, she got involved in drug trafficking by taking on a role that involved passing along information on the phone between parties. Her troubles started when she developed a gambling addiction. She pushed for women and people of color to be treated equally, filing a grievance with HR that was well received by the top management and led to policy changes at the company. Years before she went to prison, Johnson impressed the vice president of FedEx and was offered a job at the company, working her way up to a role in computer operations, and eventually customer support. Johnson once had a steady career as a manager at FedEx The reality star also detailed how she initially contacted the president by reaching out to his daughter (“I had known Ivanka and her family for years.”) And she worked hand-in-hand with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner throughout the process. This was Alice’s day she was all that mattered and I wasn’t going to let her down.” Kardashian West's meeting with Trump was postponed and eventually rescheduled for Johnson’s birthday, she writes.
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Kardashian West penned the foreword of the book, in which she explains she was “scrolling through Twitter” one night in 2017 when she came across Johnson’s story and was moved to take action.Īs she’s since detailed in interviews and on “Keeping up the Kardashians,” the TV star enlisted the help of a team of lawyers to work on Johnson’s case for clemency that culminated in an Oval Office meeting with the president.
Kim Kardashian West met Trump on Alice Marie Johnson’s birthday Here are some of the big takeaways from her 263-page memoir, out Tuesday. Johnson goes into detail about life behind bars and takes the reader on her 21-year journey to freedom. Her story makes a poignant case for the need for prison reform, and that’s what her memoir, “After Life,” is about. She excelled in prison, becoming a model inmate and an ordained minister. But she's also a woman who once had a promising career, developed a gambling addiction and was sentenced to life behind bars for a non-violent drug offense. Who is Alice Marie Johnson? Yes, she’s the 63-year-old grandmother who was famously granted clemency after Kim Kardashian West lobbied President Donald Trump.
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