In one scene, Elizabeth Holmes is whisking eggs in a rented kitchen. Prison is weeks away. Billy Evans, her partner, grabs the bowl and takes over. From that moment, the Journal's reviewers write, the film belongs to him.
We covered the film You Can See Everything on Oct. 16. Esther Zuckerman and Sara Ashley O'Brien's Page One story adds the part we care about. Evans, 34, is the father of Holmes's two children. He runs her public image while she serves her sentence. On screen he reveals that he holds power of attorney over her. He posts under her name on X. He built an AI avatar of her and says he'd let people do what they want with it. It was never released. How much Holmes knows about what's done in her name becomes a big question in the film.
Then there's the money. Fielder describes an early meeting with the couple and A24. By his account, Evans waited until Holmes left the room. Then he asked for a share of the movie's profit for himself, and A24 agreed. Holmes says on camera she isn't making money from the documentary. A title card at the end says Evans later dropped the claim. At a New York Film Festival screening, Fielder said Evans pushed for control late in the shoot, and talks with him broke down. “The independence of it all was really important,” he said. A few days before the New York premiere, a post on Holmes's X account said loved ones help manage it. Posts in her own words would be signed -EAH.
Holmes was convicted in 2022 of defrauding investors in Theranos, her blood-testing company. She was sentenced that November to more than 11 years. The Journal's reporting in 2015 and 2016 exposed that the technology didn't work. Evans was a 25-year-old MIT graduate when they met in 2017. His family owns a hotel group in San Diego. He's now starting a new medical testing company. A person familiar with it says Holmes isn't involved.
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This is an Estate story, and the document is the point. A power of attorney lets someone act for you. They can sign, spend and deal with others in your name. Many people sign one in an estate-planning packet and forget it. This film is a rare public look at a person who holds one, and it isn't pretty. He posts in her name, builds a digital copy of her and talks money while she's out of the room. The film doesn't show which of those things, if any, rest on the POA itself. But it shows how much one trusted person can do for you, or to you. An agent under a financial POA is generally supposed to act in your interest, not their own. The paper is only as careful as its words and the person you name.
So here's the check for this week. Find your own power of attorney. Read who you named, who the backup is, and when it takes effect. Some start the day you sign. A ‘springing’ one starts only once you can't act, often after a doctor says so. A ‘durable’ one keeps working if you lose capacity, which is the point for most people. Then look for limits on gifts, beneficiary changes and new contracts. See whether your agent must keep records and show them to a second person. If what you find surprises you, bring it to your next plan review and loop in your estate lawyer. You pick the umbrella before the storm, and you pick the person holding it even more carefully.