Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli Accused Of Involving Daughters In College Admission Scandal

A plethora of court documents filed by federal prosecutors claimed that actress Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Gianulli’s daughters were involved in the college admission scandal.

The documents revealed that their daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli used to have several discussions with her parents about the matter. She used to ask them about how to hide their malicious motives from her guidance counselor, who was suspicious of her college application, Vulture reported.

The court papers also disclosed that the parents directed both their daughters, Olivia and her older sister Isabella Giannulli, to pose in staged pictures that made them look like rowers. The pictures were later used in creating a “fake athletic profile” to gain college admission.

“They involved both their daughters in the fraud, directing them to pose in staged photographs for use in fake athletic profiles and instructing one daughter how to conceal the scheme from her high school counselor,” Vulture quoted the documents, as saying.

According to the documents, Loughlin called the guidance counselor a “weasel” and asked Olivia to not “say too much” about her application because the counselor was behaving like a “nosey bastard.”

“When their daughter [Jade] asked whether she should list USC as her top choice school, Loughlin replied: ‘Yes, but it might be a flag for the weasel to meddle,’” the documents stated.

The documents also indicated that Loughlin’s husband and the guidance counselor met each other in 2018 when the counselor raised doubts about Olivia being a “rower” at the University of Southern California (USC).

The revelations come a couple of days after federal prosecutors said that Giannulli needs to serve five months in prison for his involvement in the scandal and pay a fine of $250,000. Meanwhile, in their filing, they noted that the “Full House” actress should be behind bars for two months and should pay a fine of $150,000.

"He engaged more frequently with [Rick] Singer, directed the bribe payments to USC and Singer, and personally confronted his daughter's high school counselor to prevent the scheme from being discovered, brazenly lying about his daughter's athletic abilities," the prosecutors said, E! News reported.

In March 2019, 16 parents, including Loughlin and Giannulli, were charged with conspiring for committing fraud. At first, Loughlin entered a not guilty plea as soon as the charges were announced. However, the couple agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges.

The couple’s sentencing is scheduled for Friday.