This already looks SO intense.
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, based on the $9-billion valuation of her health tech company, Theranos. By the following year, Holmes had been exposed as a potential fraud, with the same magazine revising her net worth to be zero. If it sounds like perfect fodder for a television show, Hulu thought so too — andThe series will star Amanda Seyfried as Holmes andHolmes, a Stanford dropout, was lauded as the next Steve Jobs, thanks to her black turtlenecks and supposedly revolutionary blood testing technology.
Balwani, who served as Theranos’s chief operating officer, was also charged on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, for distributing the blood tests with falsified results. Both Holmes and Balwani were indicted by a federal grand jury in June 2018; the currently on-going case began on August 31, 2021, and if convicted, Holmes faces up to 20 years in federal prison.
Before everything came to light, Holmes enjoyed support from a wide range of influential people, including Henry Kissinger and Besty DeVos. She was also engaged in a secret relationship with Balwani during Theranos’s rise and fall, which Holmes says contributed to her downfall. The Hulu series will premiere Thursday, March 3, 2022, with three episodes, and new episodes to follow weekly. The synopsis reads, “Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. Hulu’s limited series ‘The Dropout,’ the story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong.
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