Her husband is William 'Billy' Evans, a 27-year-old heir to a hospitality property. The Silicon Valley saga has inspired a bestselling book, a popular podcast, several documentaries and a feature film. Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the infamous blood-testing startup Theranos, has reportedly gotten married.
Balwani’s case is being handled separately and his trial is scheduled to begin 18 January. Holmes was indicted in 2018 and her federal trial in San Jose, California, was originally scheduled for 28 July 2020 but was postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Based on these representations, many hundreds of patients paid or caused their medical insurance companies to pay Theranos for blood tests and test results, sometimes following referrals from their defrauded doctors,” the initial indictment stated. Theranos’ tests for calcium, potassium, HIV and diabetes, for example, misrepresented their efficacy. Amanda, 36, stars on The Dropout as Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder who was convicted of fraud and could go to prison for up to 20 years. The bombshell news complicates the tricky business of her criminal fraud trial related to Theranos. Others speculated whether Holmes is looking to get pregnant. Two years after her secret wedding, her attorneys revealed during a Zoom court call that she was pregnant (approximately five months at the time, given her July 2021 due date), as CNBC reported. Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder, is believed to have tied the knot with her hotel heir fiance Billy Evans.
Holmes and the former Theranos president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani have pleaded not guilty to charges they defrauded investors, doctors and patients. Elizabeth Holmes is apparently full of surprises. The tests were rolled out in Walgreens stores and Theranos reached a $9bn valuation before it became clear that many of the claims about the company’s supposedly revolutionary blood test were bogus. The company’s rise and fall became a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of the Silicon Valley hype machine: it received glowing media coverage and raised more than $700m from investors on claims it had invented a machine that could conduct hundreds of laboratory tests from a single finger-prick of blood. She quickly became a star in the startup space that is largely dominated by men. Holmes, who famously dropped out of Stanford at 19, founded Theranos in 2003 with the goal of revolutionizing blood testing.