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When Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes surrenders to authorities this week, her life will change beyond all recognition - as she finally begins her 11-year prison sentence after repeated efforts to delay the inevitable.
Her new digs are a far cry from the $9million San Diego beachfront home she shares with hotel heir husband Billy Evans (who she met at tech bro favorite Burning Man) and their two children.
It is also a far cry from the life she led when at the helm of Theranos - a life of luxe multi-million dollar estates, private jets, flash cars, a security detail and assistants on-hand 24/7 to handle her every whim.
But Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas is hardly Alcatraz.
The 'Club Fed' prison is minimum security - and no stranger to high-profile inmates. Prisoners don't even sleep in cells, instead sharing four-person rooms with bunk beds in a dormitory-style set-up - and are even allowed to buy hobby items including crochet needles from the commissary at $1.30 a pop.
Among her possible 'dorm' mates is fellow fraudster and one-time Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah, who reported to Bryan in February to start a six-and-a-half-year sentence for her part in a telemarketing scam that robbed elderly and vulnerable Americans out of millions of dollars.
Holmes, whose legal team has twice successfully made appeals to delay the start of her sentence, is due to report to FPC Bryan on Tuesday.
Elizabeth Holmes's new home: Inside the minimum security FPC Bryan where prisoners sleep in four-person rooms in a dorm-style set-up rather than cells. It will be a far cry from Holmes's luxury San Diego beachfront hideaway where she lives with her hotel heir husband Billy Evans and their young children
Elizabeth Holmes will report to prison to start serving her 11-year sentence on Tuesday, May 30. The Theranos founder spent her last few weeks of freedom celebrating Mother's Day, going to the zoo and playing on the beach with her young children, including her newborn daughter
Jen Shah is seen walking the grounds of Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Texas. Holmes will wear the same prison uniform when she begins her incarceration
Happier times: The bombastic reality television star is apparently working with inmates to produce a Real Housewives-inspired play
The shamed one-time business prodigy and darling of Silicon Valley raised almost $1billion from sophisticated investors including Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
She dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 to found Theranos while still a teenager, she vowed to revolutionize healthcare with a technology that would be able to scan for hundreds of diseases and other potential health problems by analyzing just a few drops of blood.
The idea made her a Silicon Valley darling and a very rich woman. But Theranos’ blood tests never came close to working the way Holmes had claimed and eventually the company collapsed and she was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors of $100million. Murdoch is owed $125 million under the restitution order.
Holmes has spent her last few weeks of freedom celebrating Mother's Day, going to the zoo and playing on the beach with her young son, William, two, newborn daughter, Invicta, and husband, Billy Evans.
But at 'Club Fed' Bryan, Holmes - who was estimated to be worth $4.5billion at Theranos's peak - will be just 100 miles from her hometown of Houston.
She will be surrounded by around 600 mostly non-violent female offenders who have committed white-collar
