Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes styled herself on Silicon Valley heavyweights like Apple boss Steve Jobs, right down to the turtlenecks. Her astonishing rise and fall from history-making billionaire to the brink of jail has inspired documentaries, podcasts, and TV dramas.
Elizabeth Holmes will begin an 11-year jail term this month after losing a bid to stay out of prison while she appeals her conviction over the Theranos scandal.for what prosecutors had branded as"among the most substantial white collar offences Silicon Valley or any other district has seen".
It helped her become America's youngest-ever self-made female billionaire by 2014, but the tech was exposed as bogus and the company - once valued at $9bn - quickly came crashing down.of three counts of investor fraud and one count of conspiracy.
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