After 33 months, Jen Shah, star of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, has been released from prison. People magazine confirmed that the reality star was released on December 10, 2025, from the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Shah has been behind bars since February 17, 2023 and was originally sentenced to 78 months in prison.
“We can confirm that Jennifer Shah transferred on December 10, 2025, from the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan to community confinement overseen by the Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Phoenix Residential Reentry Management (RRM) Office,” a BOP spokesperson told PEOPLE. “Community confinement means the inmate is in either home confinement or a Residential Reentry Center (RRC, or halfway house). For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not disclose an individual’s specific location while in community confinement.”
So why was Shah in prison in the first place? Shah and one of her assistants, Stuart Smith, were running a long-running telemarketing scheme, for which they were originally arrested in 2021. In court, they were later charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
In a 2021 press release from Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss, it said, “Jennifer Shah, who portrays herself as a wealthy and successful businessperson on ‘reality’ television, and Stuart Smith, who is portrayed as Shah’s ‘first assistant,’ allegedly generated and sold ‘lead lists’ of innocent individuals for other members of their scheme to repeatedly scam. In actual reality and as alleged, the so-called business opportunities pushed on the victims by Shah, Smith, and their co-conspirators were just fraudulent schemes, motivated by greed, to steal victims’ money. Now, these defendants face time in prison for their alleged crimes.”
While Shah and Smith initially pleaded not guilty in April 2021, Smith changed his plea to guilty in November 2021. On July 11, 2022, Shah also changed her plea to guilty.
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