Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her husband Billy Evans. Her fraud trial begins this week
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is waiting for her fraud trial on a 75-acre, $135million estate in Silicon Valley that is known for 'lying low', while her former staff wait in terror to relive the trauma they say she put them through.
Holmes will stand trial this week on multiple counts of fraud after having the trial delayed because she was pregnant. She stands accused of defrauding investors and patients with her claim that Theranos could perform a range of advanced blood tests in a matter of minutes using just a single drop of blood.
Since March, Holmes and her husband have been living quietly on the Green Gables Estate in Silicon Valley, presumably renting one of the six smaller properties dotted around the vast grounds that recently went on sale for $135million.
The address was revealed on a parking citation that her husband, William 'Billy' Evans, received and was obtained by CNBC.
The estate, that was recently put up for sale by Christie's, was built in 1911 and was the home of Mortimer Fleishhacker, a famed San Francisco banker and business magnate who used it as his family's summer getaway.
There is the main house - a nine bedroom, 10,000 square foot mansion - and six smaller properties dotted around it. Holmes, Evans and the baby they welcomed in August are staying in one of the smaller homes.
The estate was put on the market by the Fleishhacker heirs who wanted to avoid future property disputes among future heirs.
Since March, Holmes and her husband have been living quietly on the Green Gables Estate in Silicon Valley, presumably renting one of the six smaller properties dotted around the vast grounds that recently went on sale for $135million
The main house at Green Gables is pictured. Holmes and her husband are believed to have been renting one of the smaller properties on the grounds, of which there are six
The sprawling estate was put up for sale by Christie's earlier this year for $135million. It's unclear how long exactly Holmes has been there
One of the bedrooms, believed to be in the main house, at Green Gables, a luxury estate built by a Silicon Valley banker in 1911
Holmes and her husband have been there since March 17. She gave birth to their first child at the start of August
The estate has numerous swimming pools, gargantuan gardens and is just 25 minutes from central San Francisco, where Holmes was a tech legend until she was charged with 'massive fraud' in 2018.
She started building Theranos in 2014, when she was 19, after dropping out of Stamford to enter the healthcare field.
Former staff have since described a toxic work environment which she governed, obsessed with secrecy and demanding too much of workers.
Now, as some of those staff prepare to testify for prosecutors and others, who have nothing to do with the trial, are dreading having to relive it all again.
'We knew Theranos to be a deceptive organization, but we had to chill out and not say anything about it because they would make
