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.