If that name sounds familiar to you, it's not because she's that girl from your hometown who just got engaged. And no, she's not one of the students caught in in the college admissions scandal.
She's the inventor of Theranos, the $10 billion dollar company that was about to revolutionize the health care system...except it never did because it was all based on false promises, raising nearly $1 billion dollars by lying to investors.
The epic rise and fall of Theranos and Holmes, now 35, has all the makings of a classicHollywood tale: secret office romances, fake voices, lots of lies, lots of money and, of course, a compelling anti-hero at the center of it all.
Oh, and Jennifer Lawrence is also caught up in the tsunami that is Theranos-related goodies, as she is set to star as Holmes in Adam McKay's take, which has yet to start filming or announce a release date.
So no, you're not alone in your obsession with Holmes, who was just 19 years old when she dropped out of Stanford to start her bio-tech company that would have many in Silicon Valley naming her the next Steve Jobs. Except in the end, his tech actually worked.
To quickly give you an idea of how crazy-successful Holmes had made Theranos, just look at the caliber of people Holmes was able to receive funding or support from over the years before the Wall Street Journal first reported the company's then-alleged fraud in 2015: A former president, Bill Clinton, two former Secretary of States, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, two senators, current Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, a partridge and a pear tree.
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