First, he becomes a jailbird, then a preacher, then a humbled mineworker, and, finally, a drug kingpin.

NEWYORKER: Trigger-Happy

She will be the most famous jailbird created during America's current campaign to bring errant executives to justice.

ECONOMIST: Corporate crime

One is LeapFrog, a start-up financed by Michael Milken, a former junk-bond financier and jailbird, and Larry Ellison, the boss of Oracle.

ECONOMIST: Even Santa might not help

Not so lucky was another jailbird, Russian oil baron Mikhail Khodorkovsky .

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But the list also includes the emancipated jailbird Amanda Knox, the emphatically un-mysterious New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, the generic pop star Katy Perry, Cinderella's official sibling-in-waiting Pippa Middleton and the fast-rising TV stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet.

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