Crime

Elizabeth Holmes is barred from reaching out to the many investors she was convicted of ripping off -- to the tune of over $452 million -- once she gets out of federal prison ... TMZ has learned.

According to court documents, obtained by TMZ, Holmes -- the former CEO of Theranos -- must have absolutely no contact with the 14 victims of her scam, unless a probation officer directs her to do so.

Authorities successfully prosecuted Holmes for concocting a fraudulent scheme to convince investors to pour money into her tech startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing.

Under the special conditions of her supervised release ... Holmes must also make restitution payments to the investor victims, including $40 million to Walgreens and more than $14 million to Safeway.

After a media whirlwind, the holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial is ready to get back to work and business as usual, TMZ has learned.

Michael Desronvil's lawyer, Edward Andrew Paltzik, tells TMZ ... Michael's been "laying low" since the mistrial.

He tells us the property maintenance company he works for has been very supportive during this "challenging time."

A Pennsylvania man who shot his ex-wife five times during a brutal attack sparked by child support has been convicted of attempted murder ... and prosecutors say he showed little remorse, even portraying himself as a hero in court.

Darrell Long -- a 63-year-old man -- was found guilty Tuesday of attempted first-degree murder and several other charges stemming from the March 2025 attack on his former wife, Dawn.

According to prosecutors, Long went to Dawn's Lebanon County home while she was sleeping on her living room couch and allegedly attacked her with a .22-caliber rifle before opening fire.

Michael Peguy Desronvil, the holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case, is sick and tired of the way her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is treating him ... and he's preparing to fire back.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ ... Michael and his legal team plan to file a bar complaint against Kevin ... they believe Kevin should be suspended, disciplined, or even disbarred for allegedly targeting Michael in the days after the mistrial.

Our sources say Michael feels Kevin publicly identified and essentially outed him ... which they see as a huge issue, considering Kevin is an officer of the court.

Reality star Sidney Starr basically claims she is too famous for jail ... a new tactic in her renewed attempt to get out on bond.

According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the former "Love & Hip Hop" star, who is facing child molestation charges, says she has no criminal history and poses no danger to the community if released pending her trial.

Her lawyer said incarceration is having "adverse effects" on her physical and mental health ... and says Sidney is a celeb who is "recognizable to a sizeable portion of the jail population."

Sidney's fame comes with a price ... she says she is "continually pressured by other jail inmates for money, and has had her personal identification number for the jail's video communication system stolen and used by other inmates."

Caleb Flynn's mistress broke down in tears while testifying in his murder trial ... sobbing as she poured over her texts with the "American Idol" alum ... including one where she told him she wanted to kill his wife.

Alleigha Botner took the stand Thursday, sobbing as she told the court, "I just wish I didn't say this. I didn't mean it."

The message that brought her to tears reads ... "I want to kill her, Caleb."

She also read Caleb's chilling response ... "That makes two of us."

Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison next year ... and she'll be transferring to a halfway house in Texas ... and she'll be close to lots of other tech titans.

The disgraced former Theranos CEO is being moved from the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, to a halfway house near Austin ... according to ABC News reporter Rebecca Jarvis -- who says Elizabeth's victims were just notified of her upcoming change of scenery.

However, there's a pretty big caveat ... the move isn't for about a year ... Elizabeth will officially be getting out of FPC Bryan on August 23, 2027 ... and the message sent to her victims is just advance notice.

A Florida mom charged with trying to kill her two adult sons with autism by overdosing them on drugs told cops she was trying to put them out of their misery and send them to heaven ... this according to her arrest warrant.

According to the documents, obtained by TMZ, 68-year-old Marilyn Therrell confessed to police that she administered significantly higher-than-prescribed doses of their medication because she wanted to free them of their "disabilities and suffering."

Cops say she told officers she ground up a bunch of Valium and Clonidine pills ... in hopes the drug cocktail would kill them all.

United Airlines is responding to a woman who claims she was trapped next to a man while he masturbated on a flight ... and they say they're taking her claims seriously.

The commercial air carrier tells TMZ ... "The safety of our customers and colleagues is our top priority. We take these matters seriously and are looking into what happened."

United adds ... "We have been in contact with the customer and apologized for her experience."

A creepy new Ring video shows an alleged gunman breaking into a car owned by Mama June's late daughter Anna "Chickadee" Cardwell's widower ... before allegedly firing a shot at the house with a child inside.

In the clip obtained by TMZ ... the armed individual -- who concealed his face with a gray hoodie -- can be seen emerging from the shadows before hopping inside a vehicle on the property.

The person then walks off camera before a car alarm starts blaring -- causing the trespasser to run off into the night.

Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after a jury convicted him again during his retrial in New York last year.

The disgraced movie producer was sentenced in a Manhattan courthouse on Wednesday, more than a year after a jury found him guilty of a first-degree criminal sexual act for sexually assaulting former “Project Runway” production assistant Miriam Haley.

Miriam appeared in court as well and read a victim impact statement for the record ... saying Weinstein's actions gave her a life sentence -- because it seriously destroyed her sense of safety.

Elizabeth Holmes' fiancé says he fell for her before he even knew she was the woman behind Theranos ... and Nathan Fielder wastes no time putting that love story through the fraud test.

Billy Evans makes the eyebrow-raising admission in the trailer released Wednesday for the upcoming documentary, "You Can See Everything" ... which follows Holmes in the final weeks before she reported to federal prison.

"I fell in love in that first conversation," Evans says.

A woman says she was trapped next to a guy who was pleasuring himself aboard a United Airlines flight ... and, so far, the man has gotten off scot-free.

The 25-year-old woman told NBC News she was seated next to the man on a flight from Rochester, New York, to Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on September 3 when things suddenly got X-rated.

She said the "unassuming" and "pretty normal looking" 35-to-40-year-old man started masturbating right in front of her ... all while staring at her.

"The View" host Sunny Hostin just revealed she was the holdout juror who helped acquit an infamous NYC cannibal known as the Butcher of Tompkins Square Park ... and she spilled it all live on air.

On Tuesday's show, Sunny admitted that she relates to the 11 jurors who wanted to find Lindsay Clancy not criminally responsible for murder ... because she felt that self-confessed cannibal Daniel Rakowitz was also similarly not responsible.

The details of the 1991 case are super grim ... Rakowitz killed his roommate and aspiring dancer, Monika Beerle, dismembered her, boiled her remains, ate some and put the rest in a soup he served to the homeless in Tompkins Square Park.

A 12-year-old boy was forced to tell his own mother why their day went so horribly wrong ... and in dashcam footage from her alleged DUI crash, you hear the child say, "Mommy, you were drunk. You crashed."

The gut-wrenching exchange was captured in Florida Highway Patrol footage obtained by NBC 6 South Florida following a fiery May 10 crash in Miami involving 34-year-old Iris Ruiz and her two children.

The video shows troopers arriving to find the boy holding his 2-year-old sister near the crash scene on Connector Road, just west of Interstate 95.

Hayden Panettiere's cause of death has been revealed ... the actress died from fentanyl and several other drugs.

The Greenville County Coroner, in a report obtained by TMZ, ruled Hayden's manner of death as an accident. She was also found to have the following in her system -- Alprazolam (generic Xanax), a muscle relaxant called Methocarbamol, and Quetiapine ... a drug used to treat bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression.

As we reported ... Hayden died August 16 inside a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment after traveling from L.A. with her boyfriend, Brian Hickerson.