Elizabeth Holmes says she is still “fighting to prove my innocence” and hopes to return home to her children, making the declaration in a post featuring a tender pre-prison selfie with her longtime partner, Billy Evans.

The 42-year-old former Theranos executive broke her public silence from prison on Sunday night, marking what she described as 1,216 “endless days and nights” behind bars while insisting that her legal fight to overturn her conviction continues.

Holmes’s X account shared a photograph of her smiling alongside Evans, 33, the hotel heir and father of her two young children.

The affectionate photograph appears to have been taken before Holmes began serving her sentence. Wearing everyday clothes and a blue baseball cap, she rests her head against Evans as they pose outdoors.

“I was silenced for a long time. And then imprisoned,” Holmes wrote.

“I am fighting to prove my innocence and come home to my babies and the love of my life.”

Holmes is serving her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum-security facility in Texas. She was convicted in 2022 on four fraud and conspiracy counts linked to Theranos, the blood-testing startup whose dramatic collapse exposed its failed claims and business practices.

Her latest message comes as she approaches a potentially significant step toward release.

Last week, reports said Holmes had been approved to transfer to an Austin-area halfway house next summer.

The former Silicon Valley star is scheduled to move to the Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle on August 23, 2027, according to an update listed by the Department of Justice’s Victim Notification System.

The facility is only a few miles from the Austin neighborhood where Evans lives, which could make visits with him and their children easier.

Holmes initially received an 11-year-and-three-month federal prison sentence. In March, that term was reduced by a full year to 10 years and three months, although she is expected to spend less time in custody overall.

In Sunday’s post, Holmes also explained how her social media accounts have remained active during her incarceration.

“I have now been imprisoned for 1,216 endless days and nights,” she wrote. “During that time, as we fight for freedom, my loved ones have helped manage my account. Billy is one of the people carrying that responsibility for me.”

Holmes then praised Evans, who has continued to support her through the collapse of her business empire, her criminal conviction and her time in prison.

“He fights fiercely for me and our family,” she wrote. “I love him beyond space and time.”

Holmes said that from now on, messages containing her own words would be signed with her initials, ‘-EAH,’ while unsigned posts would come from the ‘team’ running the account.

‘I am profoundly grateful for the support we receive as we fight to expose the truth and challenge deeply entrenched perceptions,’ she added.

‘Opening letters from my supporters at the end of unforgiving days constantly ignites the fire in my heart.’

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Holmes concluded with a Bible verse: ‘The truth will set you free.’ John 8:32.’

The defiant statement represents the latest attempt by the disgraced entrepreneur to reenter the public conversation after years in which her spectacular rise and fall became one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious scandals.

Theranos was once valued at around $9 billion after Holmes claimed its technology could perform a vast array of medical tests using just a pin prick of blood.

But the company’s claims unraveled following reporting by The Wall Street Journal, eventually leading to its collapse and Holmes’s prosecution.

She continues to challenge her conviction and has sought clemency after her efforts to overturn the verdict through the appeals process suffered setbacks.

Her prison life is a far cry from her years as a celebrated tech billionaire.

Holmes earns just 31 cents an hour working as both a re-entry clerk and law clerk at Bryan, helping other inmates prepare for life outside prison and assisting with legal matters.

She has also been ordered to pay, jointly with former Theranos executive and ex-boyfriend Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution to victims. 

Weekends appear to provide something of an escape from the monotony of prison life.

Recent Daily Mail photographs showed Holmes spending visiting hours with her son William, five, and daughter Invicta, three, on the grounds of the Texas prison. 

Holmes has previously described visits from Evans and their children as the highlight of her week.

Her latest social media intervention also comes as Holmes is thrust back into the spotlight by You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s documentary chronicling her final weeks of freedom before she surrendered to prison.

Fielder moved into Holmes and Evans’s California home and filmed them for 34 days as the couple confronted the reality that Holmes would soon be separated from their children.

In the documentary trailer, Evans even acknowledges that he once considered whether Holmes could be scamming him.

‘100%,’ Evans responds when Fielder asks whether that possibility ever crossed his mind, before questioning what Holmes could have gained from him.

Fielder also confronts Holmes herself over whether he is seeing the whole truth.

‘I don’t have anything to deceive you on,’ Holmes insists. ‘Of course I’m not deceiving you. I’m engaging with you as a human being. Why would I deceive you? There’s no reason for me to do that.’

When Fielder asks whether she is being real, Holmes replies: ‘I’m always being real.’

A trained hawk is helping Ford Motor tackle a long-running pigeon problem at one of its most significant manufacturing sites.

At Ford’s vast 12.1 million-square-foot assembly plant in Hermosillo, northern Mexico, the two-foot-tall bird has completed more than 300 patrols, totaling over 1,170 hours of work.

Named El Charro—a familiar Mexican word associated with a cowboy—the Harris’s hawk began guarding the facility in July 2025, just over a year ago.

Its mission is to drive away the pigeons that had been causing trouble inside and around the Ford assembly plant for years.

The birds created several risks, including entering machinery and interfering with light beams. Their droppings could also land on newly painted vehicles, making them difficult to clean, while the birds themselves posed potential health concerns for employees.

‘Having birds inside creates a lot of risks,’ the factory’s central maintenance manager, Jesus Teran, told the Wall Street Journal.

Before bringing in a bird of prey, workers tried a range of conventional pigeon deterrents, including fake predator eyes and recordings of raptors played through loudspeakers.

The pigeons, however, quickly learned that the threats were not real and soon returned to the plant.

With those methods proving ineffective, plant managers concluded that falconry—the use of specially trained birds of prey—could offer a more lasting answer.

A falconer initially arrived with a Harris’s hawk called Chalino. During one patrol, Chalino encountered another hawk and flew off with it; neither bird was ever seen again.

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The falconer later introduced El Charro, another Harris’s hawk that has since become a reliable presence at the Mexican factory.

Ford told the Wall Street Journal that the hawk’s regular flights have lowered pigeon activity at the facility by approximately 80 percent.

‘It has given very good results,’ Teran, the central maintenance manager, added.

El Charro generally begins work in the afternoon, spending two or three hours flying around about half of the building’s exterior. While searching for pigeons, the hawk can also help employees locate nests, which are then removed.

Falconry has gained ground as a way to control nuisance birds because it works without relying on methods such as poison, which are viewed as less humane, Jennifer Coulson, vice president of the Raptor Research Foundation, told the Journal.

The regular appearance of a predator is enough to discourage pigeons, seagulls, sparrows and other nuisance birds from settling in places where they could disrupt operations.

Airports use falconry to deter small birds that can collide with planes and helicopters, and beaches use it to keep seagulls from carrying off trash or trying to take food from diners’ plates, for example. 

‘The goal is not to kill the prey, but scare the prey so it doesn’t come back,’ Coulson told the Journal.

In addition to offering an effective and humane solution to the factory’s pigeon problem, El Charro’s presence at the facility has been a hit with staff, Teran told the outlet. 

Many employees ask to take photos with the hawk whenever it is with its owner, the manager said.

The factory plans to continue enlisting El Charro’s help for the foreseeable future, as the bird of prey has proved itself to be an invaluable guardian against pigeons.

A new criminal investigation is underway into allegations that a Cornell University student was drugged and sexually assaulted by seven fraternity members, just days after she said the trauma has left her struggling to sleep.

Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten said prosecutors plan to present the case to a grand jury as they revisit allegations surrounding an October 2024 incident at Cornell’s Chi Phi fraternity house.

The renewed scrutiny follows a civil lawsuit filed this month by the former student, identified as Jane Doe, who alleges that seven Cornell students participated in an hours-long sexual assault.

It also comes after the Daily Mail interviewed Doe’s attorney, Thomas P. Giuffra, who said his client continues to struggle with the effects of the alleged attack nearly two years later.

‘She is basically stalled, and her life is devoted to dealing with the trauma,’ Giuffra told the Daily Mail. ‘It’s like a constant, constant reminder.’

In a sworn statement, Doe said she has experienced anxiety, depression and persistent sleeplessness. She also said she stopped attending Cornell after the alleged assault.

Prosecutors are now taking a fresh look at whether the allegations warrant criminal charges.

‘It’s our intention to present the case to the Tompkins County grand jury with Jane Doe’s cooperation,’ Van Houten told ABC News.

‘We want to reexamine whether there’s additional evidence that we were not aware of in November of 2024, that exists now that would change our assessment of the case and would result in the grand jury finding that there was criminal conduct.’

However, Van Houten emphasized that the allegations in Doe’s recent civil complaint are ‘dramatically different’ from the account authorities say she initially provided to police.

The district attorney said prosecutors did not file charges in 2024 because Doe’s original statement did not claim that she had been unknowingly drugged or engaged in sexual activity without her consent.

‘She never says that she was drugged without her knowledge,’ he said. ‘She admits to taking drugs and alcohol voluntarily and with knowledge.’

‘She does not allege that she was forced to engage in any acts. She does not say that she was physically helpless or unconscious or incapacitated at any point during the time at the fraternity house.’

Giuffra strongly disputes that account and has criticized what he described as shortcomings in the initial investigation.

‘In my experience, speaking with an abuse survivor requires delicacy, understanding and specialized training,’ he told ABC News.

‘An average University Police officer would not have these skills. It would be the role of a specially trained detective or district attorney. However, Ms. Doe was never contacted by anybody with those skills.’

Van Houten acknowledged his office relied upon Cornell University Police’s investigation and did not ‘independently investigate’ the allegations, which he said was consistent with practices in many upstate New York counties.

Another potentially crucial point of contention is a Snapchat group conversation described in Doe’s lawsuit.

The complaint alleges that during the purported assault, one fraternity member posted to a ‘Chi Phi Actives’ group that there was ‘free p***y’ upstairs, referring to Doe.

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‘Like you can walk in and whip it out,’ another member allegedly responded, according to a screenshot described in the filing.

Van Houten told ABC News that the group chat was never provided to his office although Giuffra insists authorities had access to it.

‘They were given the group chat inviting the members of the fraternity to rape my client,’ he said, describing it as ‘a critical piece of evidence supporting that a crime had occurred.’

‘Despite this there was no follow-up with Ms. Doe either by the Cornell Police or the Tompkins County District Attorney.’

The lawsuit alleges Doe, then 20, arrived at the fraternity house on October 19, 2024, already heavily intoxicated following a night of drinking in Ithaca.

She alleges she was pressured to take ketamine and given marijuana and high-proof alcohol before being repeatedly sexually assaulted as additional fraternity members entered the room.

The complaint alleges seven men eventually participated and that Doe became ‘completely incapacitated.’ She says the ordeal continued until around 5:45am, when she lost consciousness.

Doe reported the allegations to Cornell University Police on November 8 after friends encouraged her to come forward, according to the lawsuit.

Cornell temporarily suspended the fraternity and seven students that day.

The university said this month that it takes allegations of sexual violence ‘extremely seriously’ and that its civil rights and student conduct offices ‘investigated and adjudicated the allegations consistent with university policies.’

Federal privacy laws prevent Cornell from revealing individual disciplinary outcomes, it said, while the Xi chapter of Chi Phi remains barred from campus.

The defendants have not all publicly responded to the allegations, but at least two have denied wrongdoing.

Jeremy Saland, an attorney for defendant Scott Kretzschmar, said the alleged incident ‘did not happen.’

‘At bottom, Scott never sexually assaulted or even touched the plaintiff in any way. Period,’ Saland said.

‘We look forward to confronting the plaintiff in a court of law for her selfishly false claims with both the evidence and her own words.’

Defendant Scott Norris separately denied participating in sexual activity or drug use, while acknowledging sending one message cited in the complaint.

‘I did not participate in any sexual activity or drug use,’ Norris said. ‘I thoughtlessly engaged in Snapchat and briefly stopped in the room where misconduct happened but not when it happened.’

For Doe, her attorney says the consequences have stretched far beyond the night at the center of the lawsuit.

‘And now she’s dropped out of Cornell. She’s dropped out of college,’ Giuffra previously told the Daily Mail.

‘You could give her all the money in the world; nobody wants to have this as their story. Nobody wants to have this in their lives.’