https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/08/28/theranos-founder-holmes-claims-ex-lover-and-co-accused-balwani-abused-coerced-her/ > Days before Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is to go on trial for alleged felony fraud in San Jose, the judge on Saturday released redacted documents showing she will claim her former lover and the company’s president Sunny Balwani abused and coerced her. > “For over a decade, Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani had an abusive intimate-partner relationship, in which Mr. Balwani exercised psychological, emotional, and (redacted) over Ms. Holmes,” a filing from Holmes’ legal team claims. “This pattern of abuse and coercive control continued … during the period of the charged conspiracies.”