Nov 22, 2021 · -- Elizabeth Holmes took mostly easy questions from her defense attorney on Monday, as the former Theranos founder was given the stage to tout the bold aspirations she had for her blood-testing ...
Sep 11, 2021 · Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley's one-time darling for founding and leading the now failed biotech company Theranos, is on trial in one of the most highly anticipated criminal fraud cases in the ...
Sep 28, 2021 · SAN JOSE, CALIF – In the first dramatic showdown at the Elizabeth Holmes’ trial, defense attorney Lance Wade aggressively questioned the …
Dec 08, 2021 · Lawyers for Elizabeth Holmes conclude defense in fraud trial. Attorneys for Elizabeth Holmes rested their case on Wednesday after the Theranos founder took the stand for seven days in her own ...
Sep 08, 2021 · "In the end, Theranos failed and Ms. Holmes walked away with nothing," Holmes’ defense lawyer Lance Wade said, according to Reuters. "But failure is not a …
Kevin DowneyHolmes' lawyer, Kevin Downey, is expected to resume his closing argument Friday morning, followed by a rebuttal from prosecutors, meaning jury deliberations could begin as early as Friday.Dec 17, 2021
Who's Who in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial Erin Woo📍Reporting from San Jose, Calif. Tyler Shultz and Erika Cheung are former Theranos employees and were whistle-blowers. They worked at the start-up in 2013 and 2014.Jan 3, 2022
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes testified she "never" lied to investors as her defence team rested its case in her criminal fraud trial. Ms Holmes, 37, pleaded not guilty to charges she lied about her firm, including that its technology could detect diseases with a few drops of blood.Dec 8, 2021
William "Billy" EvansRecently, info has surfaced revealing Holmes' relationship status: She's now married to hospitality heir William "Billy" Evans, 27. The couple currently live in San Francisco and just welcomed their first child together over the summer.Jan 4, 2022
Holmes owned half of the company, so her net worth could be estimated at $4.5 billion.Jan 3, 2022
Holmes, 37, was found guilty of tricking investors into pouring money into what she said was a revolutionary testing system. ... There have been allegations that Elizabeth Holmes, Stanford University dropout faked her voice to sound more authoritative in a male-dominated industry.Jan 4, 2022
Holmes and her 29-year-old partner William “Billy” Evans, a hospitality heir, are staying in a home in one of America's most expensive estates, Green Gables, in Silicon Valley.Dec 22, 2021
By December 2004, Holmes had raised $6 million to fund the firm. By the end of 2010, Theranos had more than $92 million in venture capital. In July 2011, Holmes was introduced to former secretary of state George Shultz. After a two-hour meeting, he joined the Theranos board of directors. Holmes was recognized for forming "the most illustrious board in U.S. corporate history" over the next three years.
John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal initiated a secret, months-long investigation of Theranos after he received a tip from a medical expert who thought the Edison blood testing device seemed suspicious. Carreyrou spoke to ex-employee whistleblowers and obtained company documents. When Holmes learned of the investigation, she initiated a campaign through her lawyer David Boies to stop Carreyrou from publishing, which included legal and financial threats against both the Journal and the whistleblowers.
Elizabeth Holmes was born February 3, 1984 in Washington, D.C. Her father, Christian Rasmus Holmes IV, was a vice president at Enron, an energy company that later went bankrupt after an accounting fraud scandal. Later he held executive positions in government agencies such as USAID, the EPA, and USTDA.
Media attention increased in 2014, when Holmes appeared on the covers of Fortune, Forbes, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Inc. Forbes recognized Holmes as the world's youngest self-made female billionaire and ranked her #110 on the Forbes 400 in 2014.
Theranos was valued at $9 billion and had raised more than $400 million in venture capital. By the end of 2014, her name appeared on 18 U.S. patents and 66 foreign patents. During 2015, Holmes established agreements with Cleveland Clinic, Capital BlueCross, and AmeriHealth Caritas to use Theranos technology.
Theranos's pool of major investors expanded to include Rupert Murdoch, the Walton family, the DeVos family including Betsy DeVos, the Cox family of Cox Enterprises and Carlos Slim Helú. Each of these investors lost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars when Theranos folded.
On May 2018, author John Carreyrou released the book Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, detailing the life of Holmes and the inner workings of Theranos. As of June 2016, the film rights to John Carreyrou 's book Bad Blood were purchased by Legendary, before the book was published.