Lovestruck fans didn’t just slide into Jeremy Meeks’ DMs over the past few years — they showed up to jail.
The so-called “Hot Felon,” whose smoldering mugshot broke the internet back in 2014, said that overnight fame came with an unexpected downside: obsessed admirers hijacking limited prison visit slots — and shutting out the person who mattered most.
The blue-eyed bad boy shot to infamy after Stockton, Calif. cops posted his mugshot during a 2014 gang sweep — unintentionally launching the thirst trap seen around the world.
Within hours, the image racked up tens of thousands of likes, spawned the hashtag #FelonCrushFriday and turned Meeks into an overnight internet obsession.
“I was probably getting 300 letters a day, and it was just too much,” Meeks, now 42, recalled on the “Inside True Crime” podcast earlier this week.
“I’m getting naked pictures, I’m getting money orders,” he told host Matthew Cox. “All kind of money’s being sent in.”
The attention didn’t just flood his mailbox — it flipped his life.
Modeling agencies came calling while he was still behind bars, and after his 2016 release, Meeks traded prison blues for designer threads, eventually strutting runways at New York Fashion Week.
According to the former Crips gang member, strangers began snatching up his two weekly visitor slots at Sacramento County Jail — often showing up unannounced and leaving his own family locked out.
“I don’t know who that person is!” he remembered thinking as unfamiliar faces appeared behind the glass.
The situation quickly spiraled.
“So now my family can’t come because I got f—ing random people coming to see me and it was so frustrating,” he said.
At the time, Meeks was locked up on federal weapons charges after a multi-agency gang crackdown, part of a rap sheet that included prior convictions.
He ultimately served just over a year before walking free into a very different kind of spotlight.
Some fans even traveled across the country for a glimpse of the viral heartthrob.
“Well, we drove all the way from Tennessee!” one told him, he recalled.
Others didn’t just show up — they paid up, stuffing his commissary account with cash and sending explicit photos to a man they’d never met.
The attention, he stressed, came at a heartbreaking cost.
“My son’s five years old and he doesn’t understand why I’m not home and he needs to see me,” Meeks said, recalling how he begged strangers to stop taking his visitation slots.
The hunk shares son Jeremy Jr., born around 2010, with ex-wife Melissa Meeks.
He later welcomed another son, Jayden, in 2018 with Chloe Green — the British socialite and fashion designer best known as the daughter of Topshop tycoon Sir Philip Green.
During his marriage, he also played stepdad to Melissa’s two children — juggling family life long before his mugshot made him famous.
He ultimately urged fans who were hogging his visiting hours to write to him instead — anything to keep those precious in-person moments reserved for his child.
Meanwhile, Meeks’ isn’t the only case where looks caused a stir behind bars — or on the streets of Gotham.
As previously reported by The Post, New York’s most wanted can sometimes look more like models than fugitives.
Lucie Lora made headlines when a sultry NYPD poster showed her twirling her hair and flashing a pout that could stop traffic — and maybe the law, too.
She and her brother were later busted for trying to swipe an engagement ring in Jackson Heights, though cops say the heist went sideways and left the ex hurt.
Lora had no prior arrests, but her brother’s rap sheet made sure the NYPD didn’t take any chances.
