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Former Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Begins Prison Sentence as Actress Portraying Her Says 'It's Fair'

  • Elizabeth Holmes reported to prison on Tuesday to begin serving her 11-year sentence for defrauding investors while running her failed blood testing startup Theranos.
  • Amanda Seyfried, who played Holmes in "The Dropout," told "Good Morning America" that Holmes' sentence seemed fair but expressed sympathy for Holmes' young children.
  • Holmes was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $452 million in restitution to her victims.
  • Holmes claimed Theranos had invented technology to accurately test blood samples with only a few drops but those claims were found to be untrue.
  • Once admired in Silicon Valley, Holmes was convicted of fraud for misleading investors, doctors and patients about Theranos' blood testing technology.
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