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Claus Hulverscheidt
Elizabeth Holmes had really tried everything to prevent this outcome. She presented herself in court as a visionary who occasionally whistled for the sake of a good cause, but never seriously deceived anyone. She accused her former partner, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, of humiliating her and of wresting control of her blood analysis company Theranos from her years ago. She even changed her appearance, apparently to win over the jury, like Vanessa Friedman, the fashion director New York Times in December wrote: away from the turtleneck sweater, the black tight trousers and the bright red lipstick, which for a long time had made her “a mixture of Steve Jobs and Audrey Hepburn”, towards the good going out suit of a young mother.