Julie Chrisley’s Children Visit Her In Prison On Her 51st Birthday

Despite being stuck behind bars, Julie Chrisley was still able to celebrate her 51st birthday with some familiar faces.

The Chrisley Knows Best star’s children — Savannah Chrisley, Grayson Chrisley and Chloe Christley — traveled to Kentucky to visit their mom on her birthday, which was Tuesday (Jan. 9), sources told People.

According to the Chrisley family attorney Alex Little, Julie is “hopeful” that this will be her “last” birthday spent in prison.

“Julie is strong and optimistic and certainly doesn’t want to be behind bars for her birthday,” Little told People. “But she’s hopeful that with the appeal, this will be the last birthday that she does spend on bars.”

Julie first reported to Federal Medical Center Lexington in January 2023 after she and her husband Todd Chrisley were found guilty of bank fraud and tax evasion. She was initially set to serve seven years but her sentence was reduced to five years in September 2023, while Todd’s went from 12 years to 10 years.

Earlier this month, the Chrisley couple was given a $1 million settlement from the state of Georgia for a lawsuit they filed against Joshua Waites, the former director of the Georgia Department of Revenue’s Office of Special Investigations. They claimed he was an “an out-of-control public servant” who abused his powerful position to bring up “bogus tax evasion claims” against them, per USA Today. They also accused Waites of targeting Todd’s  “estranged daughter, Lindsie Chrisley Campbell, in an effort to induce her to reveal compromising information about her family.” 

Little told USA Today, “We have been saying for months that the criminal case against the Chrisleys was highly unusual and had real problems. This settlement is an encouraging sign. It’s nearly unprecedented for one arm of the government to pay money to defendants when another arm is fighting to keep them in jail.”

Meanwhile, Savannah has been speaking out about the allegedly horrendous living conditions in each of her parents’ prisons.

“She’s struggling, she’s struggling being away from her kids,” Savannah told NewsNation‘s Cuomo of Julie. “The conditions are awful. They’re deplorable. The fact that she has, she’s in Kentucky, it’s 30 degrees, she’s going without heat. They will do a temporary fix and then they’ll be without it again. There was also a dead bird in the water where their water comes from.”

Despite this, Savannah told her Unlocked podcast listeners that her mom is “staying busy.”

“She’s trying to do anything and everything, take classes, [be] first at bat — everything known to man that she can do, she does,” the reality star said in the May 2023 episode. “And you know my mom. Like, she walks in a room, if something needs to be done, she just starts doing it. So she’s trying to stay busy.”