Last weekend, disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was spotted enjoying precious time with the two young children who have been growing up without their mother as she serves a lengthy prison sentence for fraud.
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Exclusive Daily Mail photos show the former Silicon Valley darling reuniting with son William, five, and three-year-old daughter Invicta during weekend visiting hours at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas – more than three years after the fraudster heard the cell doors slam shut behind her.
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But those 'Club Fed' vists will soon be coming to an end.
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The 42-year-old has been approved for a move to a halfway house in Austin next summer.
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The new lockup - in DeValle, Texas - is just a few miles from her fiance Billy Evans’ swanky $3.5 million South Lamar pad, meaning she will be able to see her kids and her hotel heir fiance more frequently.
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Holmes herself appears barely changed – still sporting her trademark messy blonde hair, albeit looking a little tired – but the transformation in the children she left behind when she reported to prison on May 30, 2023, is striking.
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Invicta, who was just three months old when her mother was sent to the slammer, is now an engaging three-year-old, while William, who was still a toddler when Holmes went away, is a grown-up boy of five.
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The Daily Mail's pictures show Holmes, 42, making the most of their time together, enjoying the sunshine on the front lawn of the minimum-security prison – where visitation is held.
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Holmes's hotel heir fiancé, Billy Evans, 33, is usually seen making the journey to see her with the children, but stayed home this time, while the youngsters paid her a visit with her devoted mom Noel Holmes, 75, and former Enron executive father Christian Holmes, 80.
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Elizabeth Holmes was seen during a family visit at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where the disgraced Theranos founder is serving her fraud sentence.
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The 42-year-old has been approved for a move to a halfway house in Austin next summer
Holmes was joined by her two young children who were just a baby and a toddler when she reported to prison in May 2023, exclusive Daily Mail photos show
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In a jailhouse interview last year, Holmes told People magazine that the weekly visits from Billy and the children were her favorite part of the week.
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The intimate new photos come just as the official trailer for a new A24 documentary, You Can See Everything, by Nathan Fielder about Holmes's final weeks of freedom was released on Wednesday.
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The film, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, is set to give an unvarnished account of the month leading up to Holmes reporting to prison – as she desperately battled to stay out of prison while resigning herself to the prospect of becoming an absent mother to her two young kids for her sentence.
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Comedian and filmmaker Fielder even moved into Holmes's Del Mar, California home while filming the documentary, which promises a raw, unscripted look at those fraught, final days and unparalleled access to Holmes and Billy Evans.
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But a lot can change in three years, and the life Holmes was contemplating in those final weeks of freedom has become her everyday reality.
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Now federal prisoner number 24965-111, the convicted fraudster has only a few months to serve at 'Camp Fed' Federal Prison Camp Bryan in College Station, Texas.
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Originally handed an 11-year sentence, Holmes has already had it slashed in half due to good behavior.
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Among the fellow inmates locked up at the minimum security all-female prison is notorious Jeffrey Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell, while former residents include Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah who served 78 months for her role in a telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted the elderly.
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Holmes has previously described weekend visits from her family as her favorite part of life at the minimum-security women's prison
Holmes was seen doting on her daughter Invicta, now three, who was just months old when her mother began her prison sentence
Her son William, is now five - a striking reminder of how much time has passed since Holmes left her California home for life behind bars
Holmes was joined on this visit by her children and her parents, Noel and Christian Holmes, while partner Billy Evans stayed home
Once worth billions and the toast of Silicon Valley, Holmes now looks forward to Saturday and Sunday visiting hours when she gets to spend precious time with her children and Evans, who relocated from Del Mar to a $3.5 million rental home in Austin's swanky South Lamar neighborhood to be closer to his jailbird lover.
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But the rest of the week is far less carefree with Holmes's days starting at 6am with a prison wakeup call and a spartan breakfast comprised of two pieces of wholegrain bread with fruit jelly and margarine.
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Lunch comes from the Bureau of Prisons standard menu, which is served at FPC Bryan, and ranges from plain baked fish with vegetables to hamburgers and macaroni and cheese.
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Dinners, meanwhile, include simple pasta with marinara sauce, black bean soup and roast turkey with potatoes, served in the early evening before lights out at 9pm.
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Inmates are also assigned jobs and Holmes is no exception, currently earning 31 cents an hour doing double duty as a re-entry clerk and a law clerk.
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In the first role, she helps fellow prisoners preparing for release with their resumes and with finding government assistance programs.
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As a law clerk, she helps other inmates with their legal cases, bids for compassionate release and appeals – something to which she is no stranger, having repeatedly appealed her conviction on four counts of criminal fraud.
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Last year, Holmes had yet another bid to overturn her guilty verdict shot down by a trio of judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – meaning the only hope she has of an early exit from Bryan now rests with an appeal to the Supreme Court or a presidential pardon.
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She also still faces the prospect of having to pony up $452 million in restitution to the investors she is convicted of defrauding – among them, media mogul Rupert Murdoch – and is currently paying the huge sum down at the rate of $25-a-month taken from her prison earnings.
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On release, the monthly payment will go up to $250, although prosecutors are currently battling for an order that would see her cough up ten percent of her earnings – no doubt with the proceeds from future tell-all books or documentaries in mind.
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The mom-of-two was seen carrying snacks and drinks before sitting down for lunch with her kids and parents
The relaxed family scenes offer a rare glimpse into Holmes's dramatically altered world in the eight years since she was indicted on fraud charges related to her health tech company Theranos
The former Silicon Valley CEO now works as both a re-entry clerk and law clerk behind bars
Holmes is currently topping up her prison earnings by teaching French to fellow inmates, but Evans – with one eye on the future – has already made moves to maximize his jailbird partner's future funds.
Along with a cut of royalties from the new documentary, Holmes's X account, which he has control of, briefly included a paid-for subscription feature to access some of her tweets, although that was rapidly deactivated after it made headlines it was against prison rules.
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The account, which includes the tagline 'building a better world for my two children,' lists her as an inventor and the founder and CEO of Theranos – the once $9 billion startup that imploded after its revolutionary claims about performing scores of medical tests from tiny amounts of blood were disproven.
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Just last week, a glam photo was shared showing Holmes blowing a kiss to the camera while showing off the Taylor Swift merchandise ring that Evans used to propose to her in 2019.
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The image was captioned: 'The answer to every challenge lies in your heart.'
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The post had reached over 12 million views as of last Monday, with many puzzled users replying directly to Holmes's account and her apparently responding back.
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The account told one X user her snake ring was 'from a Taylor Swift merch stand,' and when one person told her she hasn't 'changed at all,' the account replied: 'True.
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But I don't think that's the insult you meant it to be.
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When another account then asked her 'wya' - 'where you at?' - she apparently replied: 'Bryan Federal Prison Camp.'
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Partner Billy Evans, 33, usually accompanies the children on the prison visits (pictured during a February 2025 visit) but was noticeably absent over the weekend
Back in 2023, Holmes and Evans were photographed spending her final days of freedom soaking up the sun as a family in San Diego
The family spent quality family time at Tide Park, a secluded beach two miles north of their San Diego home
Holmes was once the celebrated founder of a startup valued at $9 billion before Theranos spectacularly unraveled
In a follow-up post, the account noted that the kissy-face photo was actually from 2019, as Holmes does not have internet access at the federal prison.
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Evans, meanwhile, has been busy setting up a blood testing business of his own named Haemanthus, which is run from his rented home in Austin.
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In an echo of Theranos, the company aims to provide an early detection system for multiple diseases using Raman spectroscopy and AI to scan samples of blood, urine and sweat for signs of illness.
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…and 22 more, not listed.
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