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Police document: 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes reported sexual assault from Stanford

A document obtained by NPR through a public records request shows that Holmes reported to local authorities that she was allegedly assaulted in a frat house while she was attending the school.

On October 5, 2003, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's office received a call at 10 pm. Someone named Elizabeth Holmes was reporting a sexual assault on the Stanford University campus.

The Sheriff's office dispatched deputies to the campus to investigate the alleged sexual assault, according to a document obtained by NPR through a public records request.

At that time, Holmes was a student at Stanford. She was 19, the same year she founded

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