If every bad guy thrust into the spotlight could hide from their shaded past and reinvent themselves, the world would be full of fakes no one could trust. Elizabeth Holmes has one of the shadiest pasts and her attempt to come across as a different person than the one who was portrayed in the news cycle has people booing, while at the same time offering her up as a great villain for the fan-favorite franchise Hunger Games.
In an interview with New York Times, she comes across as very different from the persona she invented to be the businesswoman she became. Her Steve Job-ish clothing as well as the lipstick that distinguished her from all other scam artists is gone. She’s now a mom who takes the backseat and talks in a soft tone while she reflects and comes across as humble over the mistakes she regrets having made.
Does that change who she is or is she simply creating a new persona who she hopes will be sympathetic? Not so much. Either way, it’s not working.
If they could shoot on location while she’s in prison, this might work.
Liz or Elizabeth Holmes stole 9 billion dollars and pissed it away on lies. She belongs in the hunger games. https://t.co/etpb1adpji
β SethCKAuthor (@SethCKAuthor) May 7, 2023
No matter how hard she tries, she has a past that she just will not be able to run away from.
The NYT Elizabeth Holmes profile can be summarized in: “This woman committed fraud and put a lot of people’s health in danger while driving a man to his suicide but hey, she’s also a mom and volunteers in a rape-crisis hotline, so how bad can she really be.”
β Anita (@AnitaM86) May 7, 2023
Talk about a white privilege check…
I cannot. I simply cannot. The New York Times is simply unserious. We’re rebranding Elizabeth Holmes now? Mediocre scammer white women really CAN have it all, can’t they?! pic.twitter.com/rdfD3vZrT6
β Kate Hudson (@HudsonKate) May 7, 2023
It’s called sleight of hand and it’s used by every swindler who has ever been caught up in their crap.
for every glowing puff piece you see trying to rehabilitate Elizabeth Holmes’s image, i want you to remember something
β juni π¦¨ΞΈβ π Furality (@JUNIUS_64) May 7, 2023
she personally approved a 15 month clinical trial using a device she knew to be useless, to measure cancer drug levels in the blood of terminal cancer patients https://t.co/eXVCQPlQF6
No wonder they chose Amy Chozick for this piece…
The NYT apparently thought “our coverage of Hillary Clinton from 2007 to 2016 was so great, let’s have the reporter who was largely responsible for it write a profile of Elizabeth Holmes!” pic.twitter.com/7930Yx3y9S
β @[email protected] π½ (@Ben_Alpers) May 7, 2023
Doesn’t it seem really hopeless and desperate to run a damage control campaign before heading to prison? There is no amount of makeup that can cover the scars Ms. Holmes left in her wake as she shook the world and collected the money.
For the uninitiated, Holmes founded a company called Theranos which promised a game-changing method of conducting blood tests, and proceeded to give false hope to patients in serious need of medical miracles. Without evidence or actual results, she was able to obtain billions from investors and became the youngest self-made female billionaire the world has ever seen.