Smirking fraudster Elizabeth Holmes enjoys family day behind bars after driving researcher to suicide with her demands at crooked blood testing firm Theranos
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was seen laughing and enjoying a family day with her husband and young children while behind bars.
The convicted biotech entrepreneur, 41, played with her two-year-old daughter and four-year-old son as her husband Billy Evans lounged on a grassy area inside Federal Prison Camp Bryan.
Holmes has been housed at the Texas prison since May 2023, and is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors in her botched blood-testing company Theranos.
The minimum-security prison allows inmates to enjoy outdoor activities, an athletic field, green spaces, and vocational training programs for its non-violent offenders.
The facility recently made headlines after Jeffrey Epstein’s former partner Ghislaine Maxwell was moved to the prison from a higher security penitentiary in Florida in exchange for giving information on Epstein to the Trump administration.
Holmes’s relaxing day with her family comes over a decade after Theranos’s top scientist Ian Gibbons took his own life in 2013.
Gibbons’s widow Rochelle Gibbons told CBS News that she blamed Holmes for his death and that she drove him to an overdose with her lies.
‘For me, he was as near to perfection, as a human could be,’ Rochelle said. ‘He was kind. He was honest. He was extremely intelligent.’
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes was seen laughing and enjoying a family day with her two-year-old daughter, four-year-old son and her husband Billy Evans behind bars this week
Holmes appeared relaxed as she played with her young daughter on a grassy area inside Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum security prison in Texas
Gibbons was an esteemed biochemist with degrees from Cambridge University and University of California, Berkeley, and had more than 60 patents to his name.
He was hired by Holmes in 2005 to be Theranos’ chief scientist and was promised by the founder that he would be producing groundbreaking blood-testing technology.
But Rochelle said her husband quickly realized the company was rife with issues and said Holmes had sold him a fallacy.
‘He started talking to me about all these investments, all the money that the company is bringing in. And he told me that he couldn’t imagine why people were giving the company any money because there was no invention, there was nothing there,’ she recalled.
Rochelle said her husband began to not trust Holmes, recalling that he told her ‘Elizabeth lies about everything.’
Gibbons was fired after he raised concerns with former Theranos board member and Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford, Channing Robertson, only to be re-hired and demoted soon after.
Rochelle said the strain of the faulty business made her husband depressed and said the strain became too much when he was ordered to give a deposition in 2013.
Holmes’s relaxing day with her family comes over a decade Theranos’s top scientist Ian Gibbons (pictured) died by suicide in 2013. His widow Rochelle Gibbons subsequently blamed Holmes
Holmes was once one of the youngest biotech business leaders in the world, before her blood-testing technology Theranos was found to be a fake, and she was convicted of fraud and conspiracy
The top scientist feared that telling the truth could cause him to be fired or collapse the multi-billion-dollar company, before he took an overdose of acetaminophen and died 8 days later, at age 67.
‘And I think of it every day, I mean, I think of it all the time,’ the widow said.
To add insult to injury, Rochelle said she notified Holmes that her husband died after his suicide, but never heard back.
After Holmes was convicted of four counts of fraud and conspiracy, Rochelle said she got ‘a little satisfaction’ to see the fraudster go down.
‘Satisfaction in knowing she’s going to suffer because, believe me, I’ve suffered and Ian suffered,’ she said.
‘She has shown no remorse for any of the things she’s done to anyone, nothing.’
Despite the pain Rochelle says Holmes inflicted on her and her husband, the entrepreneur has been frequently pictured looking relaxed as she serves her time in prison.
The entrepreneur has been frequently pictured looking relaxed as she serves her time in prison
In August, she was seen lifting weights and running on the penitentiary athletics track with a large smile on her face
In August, she was seen lifting weights and running on the penitentiary athletics track with a large smile on her face.
Holmes has been locked up with Maxwell and Real Housewives star Jen Shah, who is serving a six-year sentence for wire fraud related to a scheme to defraud pensioners.
Maxwell recently made headlines with her move to the Texas prison, as insiders said she now enjoys ‘VIP treatment.’
The convicted sex trafficker’s privileges have reportedly seen her earn the nickname ‘Mary Poppins’, which have included being given her own slot to shower privately, instead of being subjected to the standard communal wash like the rest of the 650 female convicts at the facility.
Sources say she also receives mail much faster than other inmates which has caused frustration among prisoners who have to wait weeks for pictures of their families during the holiday season.
