In particular, it\u2019s being reported that Giannulli felt his wife was the \u201cdriving force\u201d behind their decision to pay $500,000 in bribes to get their questionably qualified daughters, Isabella and Olivia Jade Giannulli, fraudulently admitted to the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n
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FILE \u2013 In this Aug. 27, 2019, file photo, Lori Loughlin departs federal court in Boston with her husband, Mossimo Giannulli, left, after a hearing in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. Giannulli has reported to prison to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters\u2019 way into college. Giannulli\u2019s wife, \u201cFull House\u201d actor Lori Loughlin, is already behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme involving prominent parents and elite schools across the country. She began her two-month prison term late last month. (AP Photo\/Philip Marcelo, File)\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir marriage was very strong before the (expletive) hit the fan with the college admissions scandal,\u201d a source told the Daily Mail. \u201cThat totally derailed it. His sales suffered. She lost Hallmark. They blamed each other, but he blamed her more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Prior to the scandal, Loughlin enjoyed a thriving career as wholesome Aunt Becky in the family sitcom \u201cFull House\u201d and as a popular star of Hallmark Channel rom-coms and Christmas movies. Giannulli created the successful Mossimo mid-range clothing line featured at Target, which he later sold. Following the couple\u2019s arrest in March 2019, Loughlin lost the chance to appear in the \u201cFull House\u201d reboot and other acting jobs, while Target distanced itself from Giannulli. Among other things, they resigned their long-time membership at the Bel-Air Country Club<\/a>\u00a0 and were dumped by friends who were \u201cvery critical\u201d about her actions, People reported at the time.<\/p>\n Loughlin and Giannulli were among dozens of wealthy parents, including some from the Bay Area, who paid admissions fixer William \u201cRick\u201d Singer tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to arrange for their children\u2019s test scores to be boosted or information on their college applications to be doctored to make the children appear to be desirable candidates for top U.S. schools.<\/p>\n In the case of Isabella and Olivia Jade Giannulli, Singer worked with the then-teenagers and their parents to make it appear that they competed in crew at the high school level, so that they could be recruited to join the USC crew team. In fact, neither Isabella nor Olivia Jade Giannulli, now 27 and 26, respectively, had any background in the sport.<\/p>\n Prosecutors produced evidence showing that Loughlin and Giannulli had their daughters pose for photos on a rowing machine<\/a> to help Singer and his alleged USC accomplices craft false athletic profiles for their admission. They furthermore coached Olivia Jade on what to say to her prep school guidance counselor who had begun asking questions about her USC application, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n When Olivia Jade asked her parents whether she should list USC as her top choice school, Loughlin replied: \u201cYes . . .\u00a0 But it might be a flag for the weasel to meddle.\u201d Giannulli added: \u201c(Expletive) him,\u201d and called the counselor a \u201cnosy bastard.\u201d<\/p>\n Loughlin thereafter instructed her daughter: \u201cDon\u2019t say too much to that man.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loughlin-2.jpg\")
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Boston posted in federal documents images of Bella and Olivia Jade Giannulli were used by their parents, actress Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, to pass them off as crew recruits in a scheme to get them into USC. (Photo courtesy U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office)\u00a0<\/p>\n