From Elizabeth Holmes playing with her children in a prison yard to Sean Combs feeding 1,000 inmates, America’s most infamous figures marked the holidays in federal custody.
Disgraced celebrities and crooked business leaders serving time in federal prisons marked the start of the holiday season behind bars with Thanksgiving family reunions, holiday feasts and apparently acts of communal goodwill. At the low-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, dubbed “Club Fed,” former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes spent the holiday weekend with her husband, Billy Evans, and their two young children. The family gathered in the prison yard Friday afternoon, where Holmes, serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors, chatted with Evans across a picnic table as the children played nearby.
Holmes playfully swung her young son around and held her daughter. She even squeezed in a quick workout, grabbing dumbbells for bicep curls to maintain her fitness routine. The visit followed a similar outing the previous week; the family has made the trek regularly since Holmes reported to the camp in 2023. Her release is slated for 2032.
Fellow inmates at Bryan, most notably Ghislaine Maxwell and Housewife Jen Shah, joined Holmes for the facility’s “elaborate” holiday spread, served around 11 AM. The menu featured turkey or ham, mashed potatoes with gravy, cornbread dressing, green beans, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls and pies, with vegetarian options including veggie stir fry and soy chicken. Maxwell, 63, serving a 20-year term for her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, dined with full plastic utensils. This is a perk that includes “sporks” elsewhere in the federal system. This marked her fifth Thanksgiving incarcerated; she was transferred to Bryan from Florida this summer.
Shah, the 51-year-old former “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star serving a reduced sentence for wire fraud, ate the same meal. Already a model prisoner mentoring others and leading fitness classes, Shah’s latest good-conduct credits have advanced her release to December 10th.
In New Jersey, Sean “Diddy” Combs turned the holiday into a morale-boosting event for his fellow inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix, where he’s serving a 50-month sentence for violating the Mann Act by transporting individuals for prostitution. Combs, 56, collaborated with an inmate group called the “Bankroll Bosses” to fund and organize an upgraded feast for about 1,000 people, supplementing the prison’s standard turkey roast, mashed potatoes, corn, chicken gravy, whole wheat bread and holiday dessert.
Diddy reportedly paid for and helped cook over 1,000 Thanksgiving meals for fellow inmates at Fort Dix.
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They could not use stoves or microwaves; the group spent two days prepping commissary-bought ingredients (using inmate ID cards as makeshift knives) before distributing portions to every housing unit. “Thanksgiving, to me, is about making sure other people eat,” Combs’ rep said in a statement. “Everybody misses their family. People get depressed during the holidays. We just wanted to come together as a family and do our own thing.” He described prison life as a “strong brotherhood” that feels “like a little bit of home in a dark place.” His release is projected for June 2028, though he’s appealing his conviction.
Across the federal system, other high-profile inmates observed the holiday with similar routines. At the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Luigi Mangione, 27, awaiting trial on federal and state murder charges in the shooting of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson, received roast turkey with mashed potatoes, brown gravy and mixed vegetables, also served at the standard 11 AM slot. Mangione is about to begin a series of important suppression hearings for his state case on December 1st.
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Rapper Fetty Wap, serving six years for drug trafficking at FCI Sandstone in Minnesota, dined on the same turkey meal plus pumpkin pie, followed by church services and recreation time. Josh Duggar, the former TLC star imprisoned for child pornography possession, ate a comparable spread at FCI Seagoville in Texas. And Jared Fogle, the ex-Subway pedophile pitchman serving more than 15 years for child sex tourism, marked the day with turkey and trimmings at FCI Englewood in Colorado.
Los Angeles is told that federal prisons nationwide try to maintain holiday traditions with these types of enhanced meals. High-profile inmates will have to make the best of the holidays this season while incarcerated and away from their families.
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