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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday, May 30, after being sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars.

As Elizabeth Holmes’ career came crashing down amid the downfall of Theranos, she met and found love with Billy Evans.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars, per multiple outlets. She is currently pregnant with her second child.

, Naveen Andrews — who most recently played embattled ex-Theranos executive Sunny Balwani in -- is adding some spice to the Fox drama. Andrews plays Robert Kamdar, Nadia's (Eva De Dominici) dangerous and charming ex-lover, who enters the world hellbent on driving a wedge between Nadia and her mobster husband, Arman (Adan Canto).When the opportunity came his way to join the mob drama's ensemble, it was Andrews' girlfriend who played a small part in pushing him to say yes. «Before I even looked at the script, my girlfriend told me that this was one of her favorite shows.

Wilson Chapman editorRamesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former president and chief operating officer of healthcare startup Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of defrauding former investors and patients of the company.As reported by AP News, Balwani was convicted by a San Jose, Calif. jury on all 12 charges brought against him.

Elizabeth Holmes’ ex-boyfriend, was found guilty in the criminal fraud case surrounding the downfall of the biotech startup. The verdict comes after a lengthy trial, which first started in March, the same month, a true-crime series depicting the rise and fall of Theranos, premiered on Hulu.After four full days of deliberation, the jury determined that Balwani was guilty of all 12 criminal fraud charges brought against him.

Amanda Seyfried is opening up about Elizabeth Holmes after playing her in Hulu's . The  actress sat down with Jared Leto for  «Actors on Actors» discussion, where they spoke about the controversial characters they played and how they approached playing these very layered humans.While Seyfried said she did not speak to Holmes before filming the series, she would be open to it now that the show has aired.«Hi. Wow.

She’s only human. Amanda Seyfried may not “agree” with what Elizabeth Holmes did in allegedly defrauding people with her blood-test technology, but she did embrace her quirks with her Dropout role.

Amanda Seyfried was first offered the role of Elizabeth Holmes in “The Dropout,” she wasn’t sure if she should take it. “I don’t think I’ve ever talked about this,” the actor told Variety after her Power of Women photo shoot, “but my one fear was that I was like, ‘Am I going to have a target on my back? How protected are we, as a show? Are there people who don’t want this to get made?’”If that sounds too paranoid, you probably haven’t seen “The Dropout.” Hulu’s breakout limited series follows the spectacular rise and fall of Holmes, the founder of a billion-dollar blood testing company that was eventually revealed to be an elaborate fraud.

Scott Huver After months of near-total immersion in the facts and nuances of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ tale of big-tech startup fraud and fracturing identity to make Hulu’s acclaimed miniseries “The Dropout,” the convicted exec’s ongoing real-life story – she faces sentencing in September – still looms large in its creative team’s headspace.“There was already a point where I had kind of washed my hands of it. I had a moment after we finished shooting where I was like ‘Okay, well that was good – I’m done,’” star Amanda Seyfried told Variety at an FYC screening at the Paramount Studios lot on Monday.

Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews and creator Elizabeth Meriwether were filming the Hulu series The Dropout while subject Elizabeth Holmes was on trial. During a Contenders TV panel Sunday at the Paramount Theatre, they recalled following the trial closely as they told Holmes’ story. Meriwether incorporated information from personal texts between Holmes and boyfriend/partner Sunny Balwani that came out as evidence during the trial.

Elizabeth Holmes allegedly wasn’t the only one behind the decisions made and the fraud committed at the biotech startup hoping to revolutionize the healthcare industry with its groundbreaking blood-sampling machine. That other person is Sunny Balwani, a wealthy businessman who eventually became the president and COO of his then-girlfriend’s company and was later portrayed by Naveen Andrews in Hulu’s true-crime series, . Following the fallout that surrounded Theranos, Holmes was charged and convicted on multiple charges of fraud.

As you hopefully already know, Hulu’s “The Dropout,” is terrific, and Amanda Seyfried is incredible in her layered depiction— something between absolute confidence, desperation, and legitimate imposter syndrome—of Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, the embattled tech/healthcare startup that lied to its investors, employees, and partners creating a major fraud sh*tstorm in 2018 when their grift became exposed (read our review here). READ MORE: ‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried Is Outstanding In A Tremendous Indictment Of Tech Hubris, Desperation & Grift [Review] Seyfried is getting her just flowers for her amazing turn as the manipulative, conniving Theranos CEO, but we shouldn’t also forget the show’s co-lead, Naveen Andrews, aka Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani.

Diane Garrett Morally compromised women seem to be everywhere on the small screen, as performers dig into juicy roles full of questionable behavior on the part of real-life characters. Says Jenny Klein, showrunner of NBC’s “The Thing About Pam”: “One of the core questions of the show is, how could something like this happen?” The same might be said about the misdeeds of each of these shady ladies.Anna DelveyPortrayed by: Julia GarnerShow: “Inventing Anna,” a Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes that debuted Feb.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- “I am expecting quite a show.”I didn’t realize how prophetic my words would be when ABC News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis asked in early September what I was expecting on the opening day of a high-profile trial dissecting an alleged scam orchestrated by fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes.The interview became part of Jarvis' podcast, “The Dropout,” revolving around the trial the culminated in Holmes’ Jan.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- “I am expecting quite a show.”I didn’t realize how prophetic my words would be when ABC News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis asked in early September what I was expecting on the opening day of a high-profile trial dissecting an alleged scam orchestrated by fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes.The interview became part of Jarvis' podcast, “The Dropout,” revolving around the trial the culminated in Holmes’ Jan.

Amanda Seyfried, who plays Holmes in Hulu’s upcoming series “The Dropout,” said it took her some time to feel like she had mastered Holmes’ vocal fry.“I think it was probably like week two of shooting, because I was at work 14 hours a day and it was more muscle memory than it ever was at home,” Seyfried told Variety during the show’s premiere Thursday night at the DGA in West Hollywood. “In rehearsals.

Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“The Dropout” knows what it has in Elizabeth Holmes, the real-life enigma who managed to con the biggest power players in Silicon Valley and beyond that she, and she alone, was the future of technology in health care. With her wide-set eyes and impossibly husky voice, Holmes emerged from the pack of bland bros in Patagonia vests as the kind of uniquely, perversely compelling figure that Hollywood has never been able to resist for long.

Not long after Elizabeth Holmes’ trial over fraud charges came to a close, Hulu has debuted the first trailer for the limited series “The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried as the disgraced Theranos founder. The first official look comes ahead of the true-crime saga’s debut on the streaming platform in March.

Elizabeth Holmes’ trial over fraud charges came to a close, Hulu has debuted the first trailer for the limited series  starring Amanda Seyfried as the disgraced Theranos founder. The first official look comes ahead of the true-crime saga’s debut on the streaming platform in March. Described by Hulu as “an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong,” will chronicle Holmes’ incredible rise to become “the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire” before losing it all when her ambitions of revolutionizing the healthcare industry proved to be nothing more than a false (and fraudulent) promise.

Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews are hard at work on their new show!

Lost alum Naveen Andrews is set as a lead opposite Amanda Seyfried in Hulu’s limited drama series The Dropout, based on ABC News/ABC Radio’s podcast about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos.