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Amanda Seyfried makes a winsome Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout trailer

Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s new original series, The Dropout. Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder’s meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already been the subject of a 2018 nonfiction book and the HBO documentary […]

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Holmes to face maximum of 80 years in prison when she’s sentenced in September

Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in San Jose, California, on December 17, 2021. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Elizabeth Holmes’ trial was delayed for months, and now her sentencing will be similarly held up. The judge in her trial scheduled the hearing for late September. […]

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Holmes’ testimony backfired—jurors rated her the least credible witness

Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and US Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, January 3, 2022. (credit: Dai Sugano/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News) When jurors deliberated the case of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of […]

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Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on 4 of 11 charges

Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, right, leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 23, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. (credit: Ethan Swope/Getty Images) Elizabeth Holmes was convicted today of two counts of criminal wire fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit wire […]