Elizabeth Holmes Grants 2 Filmmakers Access She Denied WSJ Reporter a Decade Earlier
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 17
Elizabeth Holmes Grants 2 Filmmakers Access She Denied WSJ Reporter a Decade Earlier
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 17
Summary
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s new documentary “You Can See Everything” features access to Elizabeth Holmes that Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou says she refused him 10 years ago.
Carreyrou wrote that, while investigating Theranos, he concluded Holmes’s claim that a finger-prick device could run hundreds of blood tests was false and repeatedly sought an interview.
David Boies, Holmes’s lawyer at the time, was sent instead, Carreyrou said, to pressure him and the whistle-blowers he had interviewed.
In 2016, Holmes also explored telling her story with filmmaker Errol Morris, who said he wanted to examine self-deception even as Carreyrou rejected framing the case as a simple dueling narrative.
The account revisits how Holmes, now a convicted fraudster, long sought to shape her public version of the Theranos collapse.
How does Nathan Fielder’s new film handle Elizabeth Holmes’s narrative, and does it expose her deception more than a traditional interview?
Why did Elizabeth Holmes finally break her silence for a reality-bending documentary after dodging investigative reporters during the Theranos fraud scandal?
Will Elizabeth Holmes’s attempt to reshape her image through this new documentary pave the way for her rumored return to the startup world?