Amanda Seyfriedcan’t believe the latest development inElizabeth Holmes‘ life.
Thedisgraced Theranos founder, who is three years into an11-year prison sentence for defrauding investors with her failed blood-testing start-up, is scheduled to be transferred to a halfway house next year, according to a letter sent to victims of her crime, obtained byThe New York Times. And the actress who played her inThe Dropouthad a one-word responseto the news.
Indeed, underGood Morning AmericaanchorRebecca Jarvis‘ Sept. 23 Instagram post sharingHolmes’ update, Seyfriedcommented, “Woah!!!!”
Holmes is being moved from F.P.C. Bryan, a minimum-security federal prison approximately 100 miles northeast of Austin, Texas,to Austin Transitional Center on Aug. 23, 2027, according to the letter.
E! News has reached out to F.P.C. Bryan, Austin Transitional Center and Holmes’ attorney for comment and has not yet heard back.
Bureau of Prisons spokespersonScott Taylortold NBC News his department could not provide information on Holmes’ confinement, including release plans, citing safety, security and a Bureau of Prisons policy.
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Elizabeth Holmes Breaks Silence on “Torture” of 11-Year Prison Sentence for Theranos Fraud Case
The biotech entrepreneur was found guilty in 2022of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and three counts of wire fraud for allegedly deceiving Theranos investors out of millions of dollars. (Holmes was also found not guilty of the second count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and the jury reached no verdict on three more counts of wire fraud.)
She and business partnerand exRamesh “Sunny” Balwaniwere ordered to pay 12 victims a total of $452 million in restitution.(For his part, Balwani is serving a 12-year sentence at FCI Terminal Island in San Pedro, Calif.)
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For Seyfried—who won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the2022Emmys for the Hulu show—the guilty verdict left her with mixed feelings since Holmes had to leave behind her andBilly Evans‘ two young children.
“I feel for those kids,” theMamma Miaactress said onGood Morning America
in May 2023. “There’s two kids that are hanging in the balance here, as a parent I’m just like—as a mom—I don’t know.”
But when it comes to Holmes herself, she added, “Life’s not fair, but in a lot of ways, it’s fair, for her in particular.”
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