RHOSLC’s Jen Shah & Elizabeth Holmes Have “Bonded” in Prison _ E! News

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00:00 Jen Shah has formed a surprising friendship while behind bars with none other than fellow

00:06 inmate Elizabeth Holmes.

00:08 The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum's rep Krish Giovanni notes to People in an interview

00:14 published Sept. 14, "They're friends.

00:18 They're both rehabilitating and have bonded over being on this journey of positive change.

00:23 Their situations brought them together and they have a good understanding of one another.

00:27 They're getting through it together."

00:29 As for how exactly the reality star has bonded with the Theranos founder, Krish continues,

00:34 "Jen's given her a lot of advice.

00:37 She's even met Elizabeth's baby and held her."

00:40 The rep adds that Elizabeth, who welcomed her second child with William "Billy" Evans

00:45 in February before starting her sentence in the spring, has also attended Jen's fitness

00:50 class called "Shah-mazing Abs."

00:53 Both Jen and Elizabeth are serving time in federal prison in Bryan, Texas.

00:58 Jen was sentenced to six and a half years in January, an amount that has since been

01:02 reduced by about a year after she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit

01:08 wire fraud in a telemarketing scheme.

01:11 She began her sentence in February and is scheduled to be released in 2028, according

01:16 to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website.

01:18 As for Elizabeth, the former biotech mogul was sentenced to 11 years and three months

01:23 in prison in November 2022, which has since been reduced to about nine and a half years

01:29 for defrauding investors in her now-defunct blood-testing company Theranos of hundreds

01:34 of millions of dollars.

01:35 Her release was shared by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

01:41 According to the release, the sentencing came after Elizabeth, who founded Theranos in 2003,

01:47 was convicted in January 2022 of one count conspiracy to commit fraud on investors and

01:53 three counts of committing fraud on individual investors, which involved wire transfers totaling

01:59 more than $140 million.

02:02 Elizabeth reported to prison in May and is set to be released in 2032, per the Federal

02:08 Bureau of Prisons website.

02:09 E! News has reached out to both Jen's rep as well as Elizabeth's team for comment, but

02:14 has yet to hear back.

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