{"id":86560,"date":"2020-10-10T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T19:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/shoe-designer-steve-madden-opens-up-about-his-time-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T19:21:21","slug":"shoe-designer-steve-madden-opens-up-about-his-time-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/shoe-designer-steve-madden-opens-up-about-his-time-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"#Shoe designer Steve Madden opens up about his time in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Shoe designer Steve Madden opens up about his time in prison<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Steve Madden was 13 months into his 31-month prison sentence when his personal hell got even worse. It was 2003, and the shoe designer was doing time for stock fraud at Eglin Federal Prison Camp in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Good behavior and six months in a drug and alcohol program had earned him an eight-day furlough and whittled down his sentence by 18 months. But money, the very thing that put him in the slammer, got in the way again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was this kid named Belly,\u201d Madden told The Post. \u201cHe would cook for me and help me out. But he had no money to buy soap, detergent or little things. So my assistant sent him $500. You aren\u2019t allowed to do that and somebody told on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In seconds, Madden lost everything all over again. The warden held a mock \u201ctrial\u201d for his offense, he said, with a prison guards playing prosecutor and defense attorney. He lost the \u201ccase\u201d and with it his furlough and reduced sentence. \u201cIt was the worst moment of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cThey sent me to another prison that was more \u2018prison-y.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Cobbler: How I Disrupted an Industry, Fell From Grace, and Came Back Stronger Than Ever\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"618\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpd&amp;ref_=k4w_oembed_b6hfgmLiF4dLsH&amp;asin=1635766958&amp;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Madden writes about the experience in his new memoir, \u201cThe Cobbler: How I Disrupted an Industry, Fell from Grace &amp; Came Back Stronger Than Ever\u201d (Radius Books), out Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI woke up to the feeling of water lightly misting my face,\u201d he writes of his first day in a holding facility on his way from Elgin to the much harsher Coleman Federal Correctional Complex. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t water at all. It was urine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Known for his brash Long Island intensity, Madden\u2019s book shows a more timorous side of his personality and delves into the lowest points of his addiction to Quaaludes, financial misdoings and time in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Born the youngest of three boys, to an Irish Catholic father who ran a textile factory and a Jewish homemaker mother, Madden felt that his mixed heritage made him \u201can anomaly.\u201d He struggled in high school, preferring his job at a shoe store in Cederhurst. But his budding obsession was derailed by a failed foray at college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It\u2019s] where I first fell in love with Quaaludes,\u201d he writes of his stint at the University of Miami. \u201cI learned an addict\u2019s trick: taking pills on an empty stomach so nothing would interfere with the high. Getting loaded was all that mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After his father yanked him out of school, he went so wild in New York that the management at his parents\u2019 building kicked him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was out late every night and came home high, stumbling around and crashing into furniture in the lobby,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16433347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16433347 lazyload\" alt=\"The Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Fla.\" width=\"661\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=661 661w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1322 1322w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 661px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>The Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Fla.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He would pass out in clubs, restaurants and even on top of women. Once, he woke up naked in his new apartment\u2019s hallway \u2014 waddling down to the lobby for help with his manhood in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his benders, Madden was \u2013 at least by day \u2014 building a shoe empire. He partnered with the owners of an old school shoe factory in the city and sold his designs to shops and department stores from the trunk of his car. He also frequently stopped women on the street and bought kicks right off their feet, for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI promise I\u2019m not a creep,\u201d he would say.<\/p>\n<p>When, in the early \u201990s, his high-school pal Danny Porush offered to help raise capital to grow his business, Madden jumped. His multi-million dollar IPO with Stratton Oakmont \u2014 the brokerage that Porush ran with Jordan Belfort, later known as the \u201cWolf of Wall Street\u201d \u2014 made the designer rich overnight. It would, eventually, land him behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJordan was like no one else I have ever met before or since,\u201d Madden writes. \u201cHe became one of the most influential people in my life \u2026 I was pumping and dumping [stocks] right alongside them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16433359\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"size-nypost-large-desktop-uncropped wp-image-16433359 lazyload\" alt=\"Madden with his team in the factory in the early 2000s.\" width=\"294\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=294 294w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/steve-madden-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=588 588w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 294px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Madden with his team in the factory in the early 2000s.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When the feds started circling Madden, he stuck by Belfort, allowing the Wolf to use his company\u2019s office and refusing to wear a wire or rat him out. Belfort ended up serving just 22 months for his schemes, while Madden served 31 months.<\/p>\n<p>He was able to reclaim his business after prison and is still the company\u2019s creative and design chief. Like most fashion retailers, Madden has struggled through the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 including, he said, with Zoom meetings. He has been locked down in his 57th Street apartment, where the divorc\u00e9 spends time with his three children. With much of his business now shifted to online orders, he said that he is once again reimagining the creative end of his company for an audience that wants comfy slippers and clogs while working from home.<\/p>\n<p>And even though he committed it all to paper, Madden admits that he isn\u2019t entirely comfortable with his tales of excess being out there for public consumption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I didn\u2019t write it now,\u201d Madden said, his own words sinking in as he is now recording the audio book. \u201cI really do. It\u2019s very naked. It\u2019s bare-all. At the time [I started writing], I just wanted to get it all out there. But I\u2019m in a different space now with the pandemic and everything. 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