Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted of fraud in 2022. Here’s how she got caught, her relationship status, and her jail sentence.
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of failed at-home blood-testing startup Theranos, has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, NBC News reported on Nov. 18. „I regret my failings with every cell of my body,“ Holmes told the court before receiving her sentence, per the outlet.
Amid her infamous fraud trial, Holmes became the subject of several projects, including HBO’s documentary „The Inventor“ and Hulu’s miniseries starring Amanda Seyfried, „The Dropout.“ With Theranos’s technology, Holmes promised to rapidly conduct hundreds of medical tests with small amounts of blood. These claims, however, turned out to be false, even though Theranos’s tests were being rolled out in drugstores across the country for the general public. Unlike the scams of fake heiress Anna Delvey, Holmes’s schemes yielded potentially harmful medical data, with patients later alleging that she duped them with false or faulty test results. Holmes, formerly celebrated as a biotech wunderkind, was charged with 11 counts of fraud and conspiracy and found guilty on four of those charges.
