![]() ![]() ![]() Kerman's media-savvy instinct that the world was ready for a new window into the prison system was bang on the money. Her memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, topped the New York Times bestseller list five years after her own release and spawned the Emmy Award-winning TV series, the fourth season of which is shortly to air. Of course, she spent the time proactively. In 2004, she was sentenced to 15 months for money laundering. Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman in Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Realising her adventure had become misadventure, she cut all ties with Nora. Inevitably, after enjoying a lifestyle of luxury hotels and exotic climes, Kerman was asked to courier money, which she did, and after that, drugs, which she did not. She visualised the unwelcome turn her life was about to take.Īfter graduating from college in 1992, Kerman had hung out with a hard-partying, alpha crowd, including her older girlfriend, Nora, who was a bit player in a drug cartel. ![]() She also read prison memoirs, noting that there were few written by women. It included her Amazon wish list and the visiting hours. By night, she'd sit at her home computer and create The Pipebomb – a website designed to prepare family and friends for her impending jail sentence, as well as provide updates – via her husband – once she was inside. By day she was working in TV, producing a documentary about an American football team. For someone whose youthful impulsivity was about to land her in jail, Piper Kerman was a meticulously prepared woman. ![]()
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