The morning we went to the zoo, Mr. Evans stopped by Starbucks. He returned to find that the barista had written “Billy the Kid” on his coffee cup. Mrs. Holmes has not understood the reference.
Mr. Evans took a few calls while I was visiting. I asked what he does. “Lots of different things, investing, start-ups,” he replied, without elaborating. How will Ms. Holmes pay for her legal fees? “I can’t,” she said. “I have to work for the rest of my life to afford it.” I asked if Mr. Evans’ family helped cover her legal costs. She shook her head no.
An earlier legal team quit after Ms. Holmes was unable to pay them. A government pre-conviction report estimated her legal costs at more than $30 million. Ms. Holmes gave no details on how those fees would be paid, and her current representatives at Williams & Connolly did not respond to emails asking about her financial arrangement.
Their toddler, William, recently had a fever of 105 degrees, the couple said. They took him to the emergency room. The first thing the attending physician said was, “You look a lot like that horrible woman.” Mrs. Holmes looked at him with her piercing blue eyes and said, “I am sure you are a better person than she.” The doctor seemed to realize who he was talking to. She continued: “Then he said, ‘Are you Elizabeth Holmes?’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘I’m so sorry,’ and I said, ‘Don’t, all you know is what you’ve read.’”
According to Billy’s father, according to William L. Evans’ count, there are “more than 67,600,600” web results on Mrs. Holmes, all negative, compared to “21 million results, many of them positive” for Osama bin Laden, numbers he wrote in a letter to the court. Ms Holmes’ mother, Noel, said she stopped cold in a Barnes & Noble when she saw her daughter characterized in a book as a “paranoid sociopath” who is “unscrupulous”.
