Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes and Billy Evans’ Relationship Timeline
usmagazine.comAs Elizabeth Holmes’ career came crashing down amid the downfall of Theranos, she met and found love with Billy Evans.Holmes started dating the Evans Hotels heir following the end of her controversial relationship with Sunny Balwani.
After meeting when Holmes was in China for Stanford’s Mandarin program in 2002, she reportedly started dating Balwani, who is 19 years older than her, in 2004.
He was by her side when she founded Theranos, a company that falsely claimed to have a product that could run medical tests using only a finger prick of blood.Balwani officially joined the company in 2009. ”Once we started working together it was a very intense relationship and that romantic piece that was there at the very beginning died,” Holmes recalled in a 2019 deposition. “I don’t think it happened in one moment, but it was very clear we were colleagues.”Holmes and Balwani, the former president and COO of Theranos, were indicted on fraud charges in 2018.
She started dating Evans before the legal issues began and reports that they were engaged surfaced in 2019.“Billy and the MIT ring, they are inseparable,” one of Evans’ former Luminar colleagues told the New York Post at the time. “He could snap his fingers and have a triple-A diamond engagement ring instantly if he wanted to.
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