- In 2002, Elizabeth Holmes, then 18, met Sunny Balwani, then 37, in Beijing, China.
- Balwani became her long-term boyfriend and, later, the COO of her startup, Theranos.
- Both were sentenced to more than a decade behind bars — Balwani reported to prison in April.
Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani engaged in a years-long workplace relationship that ended when he left their company, Theranos, in 2016.
As the former CEO and COO of Theranos, respectively, Holmes and Balwani are now notorious for their failed medical startup that collected hundreds of millions of dollars from investors under false pretenses.
In January 2022, following a four-month trial, Holmes was found guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy, and she was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison, with three years of supervised release. She was scheduled to report for her sentence in April, but it was delayed by appeals to her conviction.
After Balwani was found guilty on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy in July 2022, he was sentenced to almost 13 years in prison, with three years of probation. His sentence was also delayed by an appeal, but in April, he reported to a low-security federal prison in California to begin the sentence, Insider’s Sarah Jackson and Áine Cain reported.
Here’s a timeline of their relationship.
