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Elizabeth Holmes and ex-lover Balwani were ‘partners in everything, including their crimes,’ prosecution alleges as his trial opens

Although Elizabeth Holmes was absent from the San Jose courtroom where her ex-boyfriend and Theranos’ former chief operating officer Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani’s felony-fraud trial started Tuesday — and where she spent many months on her way to her January fraud conviction — the founder of the failed blood-testing startup played…

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How scammers and con artists became TV's laziest way to hook viewers

Once upon a time, if Hollywood told the story of your life, it was because you did something inspiring: ending British rule in India; writing one of the greatest nonfiction works of the 20th century; being, like, really good at math.

Los Angeles Times

Elizabeth Holmes looms large on first day of Sunny Balwani’s Theranos trial

Prosecutors portray ex-executive as accomplice in a health scam while defense paints picture of well-meaning businessman

The Guardian - US

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Elizabeth Holmes looms over trial of former lover, partner

Although not in the courtroom, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes loomed over the opening day of a trial that will determine whether her jilted lover and former business partner Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was her partner in crime

The Independent UK

Scammers, con artists and thieves: Why we keep watching, and why Hollywood keeps making

The lead characters — and probably their true-life counterparts — of “Super Pumped,” “The Dropout” and “WeCrashed” will all tell you the same thing: They wanted to change the world. The world, they say, just wasn’t ready.

Tribune News Service

Elizabeth Holmes set for prison: Why Hollywood can’t get enough of Silicon Valley stories

The jaw-dropping stories of Silicon Valley’s biggest successes - and biggest failures - make for thrilling TV

Evening Standard

Sunny Balwani’s Theranos trial delayed after possible Covid exposure

Ex-executive faces same charges as his former romantic and business partner in Silicon Valley scandal

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Elizabeth Holmes' ex-lover, business partner faces own trial

Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the jilted lover and business partner of former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, will finally get a chance to defend himself against allegations that he was her accomplice in a Silicon Valley ruse revolving around a ballyhooed blood-testing technology that flopped

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Full release schedule for Elizabeth Holmes drama on Disney Plus

First three episodes arrived on Disney Plus on Friday 4 March

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Full release schedule for Elizabeth Holmes drama on Disney Plus

First three episodes arrived on Disney Plus on Friday 4 March

The Independent UK

How Theranos drama The Dropout gets scam and tech culture right

The limited series traces how Elizabeth Holmes built a house of cards from the foundation up, without indulging in feminist antihero refashioning

The Guardian - US

Sunny Balwani trial starts two months after Elizabeth Holmes’s guilty verdict

Businessman who served as Theranos’s co-president accused of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors

The Guardian - US

Elizabeth Holmes may have a secret way to reduce sentence

The Theranos founder heaped much of the blame for the company’s scandalous downfall on her former partner Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, whose own fraud trial begins this week

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Amanda Seyfried explains why she did not meet with real-life Elizabeth Holmes ahead of role

‘Mean Girls’ star plays the disgraced entrepreneur in new Disney Plus series

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The Independent UK

The Dropout: Full release schedule for Elizabeth Holmes drama on Disney Plus

First three episodes arrived on Disney Plus on Friday 4 March

Salon

Obsessing over Elizabeth Holmes' voice

Holmes’ supposed attempt to alter her voice is part of a broader cultural fixation on the way women speak and sound

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Guardian - UK

‘Good times? I was out of it’: The Dropout’s Naveen Andrews on booze, drugs and baffling the world in Lost

He found fame in The English Patient before becoming a huge TV star. Now he is tackling the Theranos fraud scandal. But addiction in the 90s nearly cost him everything

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The Independent UK

The Dropout: Why did Elizabeth Holmes only wear black turtlenecks?

Amanda Seyfried stars as Holmes in the new Disney+ show

The Independent UK

The Dropout team explains why Amanda Seyfried’s makeup as Elizabeth Holmes is intentionally awful

‘It hurt a little bit to have to do such bad makeup,’ says the show’s head of makeup

Chicago Tribune

‘The Dropout,’ Elizabeth Holmes and Hollywood’s scammer fixation

“The Dropout” starring Amanda Seyfried on Hulu is a retelling of the wildly dishonest rise and eventual, if belated, fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her biotech firm Theranos. In short: Theranos raised billions on the promise that it could build a small, portable device that would change medicine forever by…

The Independent UK

The Dropout: Amanda Seyfried explains why she did not meet with real-life Elizabeth Holmes ahead of role

‘Mean Girls’ star plays the disgraced entrepreneur in new Disney Plus series

Chicago Sun-Times

‘The Dropout’: Amanda Seyfried right on the money as the tech world’s billion-dollar swindler

Hulu’s take on the crooked Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is the best of the current wave of true-crime limited series.

Salon

Invest in Hulu's potent Theranos series

The latest in an array of TV shows about great American scams may end up being the season's best

The Guardian - UK

The Dropout review – another mind-blowing portrait of a great American fraudster

Yes it’s clunky at points, but Amanda Seyfried excels as one-time billionaire grifter Elizabeth Holmes – and the story is simply too jaw-dropping to pass up

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