Where Is Subway Guy Jared Fogle Now? What We Know About His Life in Prison (Including the Ironic Job He Has Behind Bars)
He was fired in 2015 after he admitted to having sex with at least two minors and to obtaining child pornography
Now, Fogle is serving a 15-year sentence in prison, and is expected to be released in March 2029Jared Fogle was beloved as a Subway spokesperson, but his wholesome image came crashing down when he was accused of sexually abusing and exploiting children.
Fogle rose to fame in 2000 for claiming he lost more than 200 lbs. with a diet of Subway sandwiches, later appearing in ads for the franchise for over a decade. However, in 2015, the spokesman was fired from Subway after he admitted to having sex with at least two minors and to obtaining child pornography of at least 12 others.
After an August 2015 court appearance, Fogle's defense attorney Jeremy Margolis said that his client 'knows that he has a medical problem. He has already sought evaluation by a world-class psychiatrist, experienced in these matters, and he will seek appropriate treatment.'
He was ultimately sentenced to over 15 years behind bars.
Here is where former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is now.
Jared Fogle was obese in college, weighing 425 lbs. with a 60-inch waistline — until he lost 245 pounds by eating Subway sandwiches, he claimed.
"I ate the footlong veggie and six-inch turkey every day. No cheese, no mayo, tons of vegetables and a bit of spicy mustard," he told the Indiana Daily Student, the Indiana University campus newspaper, in 1999.
"I was reborn in every sense of the word," he continued. "Subway helped save my life and start over. I can't ever repay that."
Subway soon reached out and Fogle became a spokesperson for the chain, starring in more than 300 commercials between 2000 and 2015. At the height of his success, his net worth was estimated to be about $15 million.
He also became a red carpet regular, appearing at movie premieres and posing for photos with stars, and started his own charitable organization, the Jared Foundation, to promote healthy eating habits and exercise for kids.
Fogle's beloved public image lasted until July 2015, when it was irreparably destroyed: The FBI raided his Indiana home and he was arrested for possession of child pornography and for traveling across state lines to have sex with minors.
According to a filing from federal prosecutors, Fogle first received child pornography images and videos in 2011 and repeatedly viewed them instead of reporting them to authorities. He then continued to solicit more child sexual abuse material from his co-conspirator, Russell Taylor, including visuals of at least one child as young as 6 years old.
Additionally, the filing stated that Fogle went to "great lengths" to have sex with underage minors. He also communicated with prostitutes to help him find younger children for sex, specifying he was interested in 14- and 15-year-olds.
At the time, Fogle was married to Kathleen McLaughlin, with whom he shares two children. She filed for divorce after he pleaded guilty.
In March 2023, the ID documentary Jared From Subway: Catching a Monster revealed that Fogle also boasted about sexually abusing children during trips to Thailand.
"It's just crazy; it's just easy over there — different ages," Fogle told journalist and FBI informant Rochelle Herman in a recorded phone call. "I mean, you just sort of choose what you want, and there's a price for it, and off you go."
In other recordings that Herman presented on Dr. Phil, a man she alleged is Fogle spoke about his attraction to middle schoolers and wanting to install cameras in their locker rooms so he could see them undress without their knowledge, and described his methods for grooming children for sexual abuse. He also allegedly told Herman that he wanted to see her children, then ages 10 and 11, naked.
In November 2015, Fogle pleaded guilty to one count each of distributing and receiving child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor.
Fogle was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in federal prison, followed by a lifetime of supervision. He also agreed to pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 of his confirmed victims, who ranged from ages 10 to 17 at the time Fogle committed the offenses against them.
Fogle's sentence was ultimately longer than the 12 and a half years prosecutors initially recommended, with Judge Tanya Walton Pratt telling the court at the time, "The level of perversion and lawlessness exhibited by Mr. Fogle is extreme."
A psychiatrist for the defense alleged that Fogle had a food addiction that transformed into "hypersexuality" after he lost weight and that he also suffered from alcohol dependence. The psychiatrist added that Fogle had "weak evidence" of pedophilia and was "very treatable," per Reuters.
Fogle previously attempted to appeal his sentence, but Judge Pratt's ruling was upheld. In 2018, he also attempted to appeal his conviction of traveling across state lines to engage in sex with a minor, claiming he traveled for work purposes.
Fogle is serving his sentence at the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Littleton, Colo.
The former "Subway guy" has been attacked more than once in prison, according to formerly incarcerated prison consultant Larry Levine.
"That stigma of what he did will follow him wherever he goes," he told PEOPLE in March 2016. "He's four months into a 16-year sentence and he's already been assaulted several times. I would say this guy has some serious problems."
Though a source said Fogle gained 20 to 30 pounds when he first went to prison in 2016, the former pitchman spoke out about his fitness routine in a handwritten letter dated Nov. 7, 2021, and obtained by the New York Post.
"I run four to five miles every day and am the most healthy and in shape I've ever been," he allegedly wrote. "We don't have a lot of control over our daily lives in prison but working out is one of the things I can control. I currently weigh 180 pounds."
He also said he snacks on granola and protein bars and tries to avoid junk food.
Fogle said he also passes time by reading The New York Times daily, as well as historical fiction novels, and that he enjoys watching NFL and college football games on weekends.
Fogle noted that he thinks about "all the people [he] let down every single day, especially [his] family."
"I really royally screwed up to wind up where I am," he wrote. "I was selfish and entitled."
The New York Post also reported that Fogle has had various jobs while behind bars, including kitchen duty, making and serving sandwiches to fellow inmates.
In November 2023, court records obtained by Business Insider indicated that Fogle would be released from prison on March 24, 2029, a year earlier than his original 15-year sentence dictated.
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