It’s taken this long for People Magazine to do a cover story about Operation Varsity Blues and the celebrities and wealthy parents caught up in the feds’ net. And of course, People Magazine made Lori Loughlin their cover subject. They’ve been angling to do a sympathetic cover story about Lori for weeks now, which is why they’ve been pushing those stories about being faith-based and white-privilege-y. People released their cover after they already previewed it with this story, which I covered earlier. The privilege was just dripping off insider quotes like “They’re having to play this all out publicly, and they’re fair game for jokes and memes, but also outraged [by] people who are saying that they are cheaters” and “This really is a family matter.” When white people cheat and lie and break multiple federal laws, it’s a “family matter” and how dare you call them what they are. Anyway, here’s more from People’s cover story:
Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli‘s future is up in the air as they face time in prison for their alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal, but the Fuller House star is most afraid for the couple’s daughters Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20, a legal source tells PEOPLE.
“Lori is very concerned about what a trial will do to her daughters,” says the legal source. “It will undermine every accomplishment they have in the future and it will be part of their story forever.” On Monday, Both Loughlin, 54, and Giannulli, 55, pleaded not guilty to both charges they face: mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison for each charge.
“It’s not in their best interest for this to go to trial, and Lori knows it. Because if it goes to trial, the girls will have to take the stand, and be cross examined by a prosecution that wants nothing more than to put a notch on their belt,” says the legal source. The source adds, “Lori is very afraid that her daughters will have to testify. That will traumatize them even more.”
For Loughlin, what matters most is the opinion of her daughters. “Yes, she can think about the public perception of her, but that’s nothing compared to what her daughters think of her,” says the legal source.
Now, Loughlin and Giannulli are laying low as they “thoughtfully” consider their next steps.
“She will continue to make a good faith effort to put this case behind her,” says the legal source, “and she hopes the prosecutors will do the same.”
I’m sorry, but I’m laughing my ass off. Bitch is facing 20 years in federal prison and she’s really going to People Magazine to say sh-t like “She will continue to make a good faith effort to put this case behind her and she hopes the prosecutors will do the same.” Like, her legal strategy to just to say “let’s forget about all my crimes and I’ll forget about how you accused me, an innocent white woman, of all those crimes.” That’s not a legal strategy, to be clear. And whining about how her daughters are traumatized isn’t a strategy either – her daughters are legal adults who actively participated in their parents’ fraud. Her daughters are lucky they’re not under indictment for criminal conspiracy or accessory to fraud.
Cover courtesy of People, additional photos courtesy of Backgrid and Avalon Red.
as she trots off to yoga class in her lululemon outfit!
Sure, Jan. It’s those vicious prosecutors that are the problem. Why don’t they just go back to jailing young black men for marijuana possession?
THIS! While marijuana possession is a crime, let’s be real, I know white kids that get caught and aren’t given the same punishment by our legal system. Wonder what would happen if this was a Black family or Indian family.
Injustice in the country is everywhere and poor aunt Becky can try to put it behind her but those kind of tone deaf comments keep her illegal actions front and center.
Marijuana possession is no longer a crime in CA and several other states, shining a light on the absudity of it ever having been so.
Yeah this is just hilarious.
I find Felicity WAY more sympathetic, even though she broke the law and didnt care that her kids took someone elses spot. At least she seems remorseful.
Becky’s delusional entitledment seems to go to the core.
Huffman is an excellent actress and she’s playing the part of the remorseful mother really well. I don’t buy it for a minute. She’s just sorry she got caught. She had no problem cheating other honest and more deserving students out of a legitimate place at USC. She’s just as bad as the rest of these awful cheats. She’s just playing it much better. She’s probably sitting in one of her six mansions right now saying, “I hope the judge buys my remorseful act. I’ve got a career to get back to.” 🙄
OhI didnt mean I let her off the hook or anything. I do think more of her than Grinning Becky.
She’s sooo deluded that there needs to be a new word for deluded. In fact, my new term for deluded will be “Loughlined”.
This woman has no shame or remorse. For her attitude alone, I hope she gets the book thrown at her.
hope the cheater gets some serious prison time
I hope the judge got an education legally. It doesn’t even have to be the hard way, just honestly earned.
Wut?
These people are disgusting and delusional. She is using her adult daughters as a shield. Her daughters are adults and yet the article makes it seem like they are babies who could not possibly handle being uncomfortable. The infantalization of white women to gain sympathy is such a common thing that needs to be called out more.
I don’t think she is going to spend a day in jail though. Probably probation since she looks like a first time criminal.
“The infantalization of white women to gain sympathy is such a common thing that needs to be called out more.”
+1000. This deserves its own article and comment thread.
White woman tears… ugh. BBQ Becky in Oakland comes to mind among many others, crying when the police decided that she was harassing the people she was trying to get thrown out of the park. Angry and indignant until being told, “uh, NO.”
Such a pity when people start believing their own PR.
They’re sinking their case one media leak at a time.
Her daughter is filing patents and partying in Hollywood.She’s truly traumatised /s.
That might change if she gets served with a subpoena. Sh*t as they say, might get real for her.
But, after searching her heart, she’ll throw her Mama under the Land Rover.
Story is that one of the daughters got a letter from the feds telling her that she’s being investigated into how much she knew and if she actively played along with the scam – the report I read didn’t say which numbskull it was. Am betting its Olivia and the staged crew photo op.
She’s not winning this PR game. And her daughters are spoiled, entitled brats.
Better get ready for Federal prison.
This lady is dumb! OMG. Arrogant and privileged, yes. But also dumb.
In some ways, I think Felicity Huffman might benefit in the public’s eyes from Aunt Becky looking this arrogant. Huffman looks human!
Why does she care what her daughters think of her, she clearly didn’t think too highly of them. She didn’t care enough to raise them with morals and to be hard workers; she taught them to be opportunistic, entitled little shits. She continues to teach them this by modeling this stupid victim behavior. At least Felicity Huffman seems contrite and is smart enough to acknowledge she was wrong and understands the gravity of the situation. Loughlin is an idiot and I will never watch anything she is in again (which won’t be hard, she’s not in anything I like and isn’t likely to be here from this point on, lol). I will watch her court proceedings, if available, though. I hope she goes to jail.
I will also tune in for that! Is there a sweatshirt I should buy for it? LOLOLOL
I can’t tell you how infuriating I find her. A “good faith” effort to “put it behind her.” Criminals don’t get to put things behind them. She broke the law. She thinks because she’s white and cute she can do WTF she wants.
I’m feeling pretty confident her daughters won’t have many achievements to undermine anyway (maybe a DUI, if that counts).
Making personnel attacks on the prosecutors, who are trying to uphold our laws, is not the way to keep this out of court. No, it is not a family matter.
“I’ll forget this if you will” seems to be what this piece is saying to the prosecutors (on her behalf).
Couldn’t the daughters be charged with conspiracy? I recall from another white collar case that anyone who was aware of the crime could be charged (and several were). I would think that the daughters knew something was up and that they did not receive admission based on merit. They certainly had to know they were not crew members.
Lori used the entitlement and privilege playbook: try to schmooze prosecutors at initial hearings, have a few laughs so that they couldn’t POSSIBLY see her as someone who would commit a crime, then be indignant and name call when it doesn’t work. Maybe she will cry in a news conference next. The Giannulli’s president and his White House staff have provided many examples of how to work fake outrange to sidestep accountability, so I’m waiting for the outraged press conference.
Excellent point Kaiser. Why aren’t the daughters under indictment? They signed their applications knowing that they weren’t actually athletes. They knowingly lied–no matter what B.S. they claim. This entire story is so dripping with entitlement that it is truly grotesque.
My only question is, why aren’t any husbands under indictment? Why is it all women in the spotlight? Doesn’t that seem odd to anyone else? Like, it’s all a chick problem?
Lori’s husband is in an equal amount of legal trouble, but isn’t cover photo ready. He’s not doing daily leaks and pap strolls – yet.
Dozens of other men and women face charges in this operation, yet Lori seems to be actively trying to be the face of it all.
Lori Loughlin’s husband, Mossimo Giannulli, is absolutely also charged in this case for the same crimes Loughlin was charged with. There were also other husbands/fathers charged in this cheating ring. It just seems to be this one couple’s bizarre strategy to make Lori the “face” of the PR battle in the media, and I hope they get the entire book thrown at them because it is one of the clearest attempts to manipulate public and legal opinion with white, Christian gender politics that I have seen in a long time.
Today’s DM story on her carries a list of everyone charged in this scam.
We’ve all made critical comments about Cindy Crawford not emphasizing education to her children, but in light of this scandal I now get why Crawford is the way she is — at least it’s more honest and she’s not trying to scam her children into college to prove she’s a parent who has it all.
This reminds me of a roommate I had in college who stole from me. I confronted her saying she needed to give back what she stole and her response was
‘be an adult.’
Um, what?
Seriously aunt becky? I can’t believe how poorly she’s coming across here. ‘Come on persecutors, just do me a solid. Can we just forget this whole thing ever happened?’
What has happened in her life that just ‘poof’ went away where she thinks that will apply to this situation as well?
As if pretending her bad actions didn’t happen is morally superior and she’s shaming prosecutors who refuse to join her on the ‘high road’. The power of lying to yourself my God
I hope they get a reality show. I need to see first-hand if they are all really as stupid and vapid as they come across in these articles. I’d especially be sure to watch it if it was more of a docuseries highlighting Lori’s time in prison. I want to see how she interacts with the “others.”
A good faith effort to put this case behind her would have been taking the guilty plea and doing her time, like Felicity H. Not leaking stories about being “outraged” over folks calling her a cheater, etc.
In other news, word is that one of the daughters is under investigation. The Feds don’t play, especially if they think you don’t take them seriously. They will use Lori’s daughter to squeeze her. And watch the arrogant dolt let her daughter get tossed under the bus. Hallmark hall of shame, Aunt Becky.
Perhaps she is going for the temporary insanity deal as this is the craziest denial I have ever seen. Like she feels if she keeps denying she did wrong the cosmic powers will see her good side and make it go away. Playing that pity me card.’ I am a Christian mom who did what all good moms would do for their kids. Now go away and let me do my yoga.’
LOL
She is having her views reinforced within her bubble. She needs better PR people. Or she should listen to them if she has them.
If she was in good faith, she would have pleaded guilty when prosecutors offered her a plea deal. She didn’t and pleaded not guilty later despite the emails, the pictures of her daughters pretending to row and so on…
Bish! You’re not acting in good faith, you’re not accepting that what you did is wrong and that there are consequences to wrongdoing. Running to People magazine is only going to make it worst.
I’m really sorry for their lawyers, there aren’t fees high enough to make dealing with such idiots worth it.
Somewhere, elsewhere I saw mention of letters going out to some of the students, from courts? Anyone hear or read of that?
I’ll tell you who knew the fix was in: hard-working fellow students who didn’t get accepted and had to watch as the children of the wealthy did. They might not have known exactly what happened, but they knew that $omething did.
I’m baffled by this “strategy”.
This is narcissistic entitlement soup
Man, if she goes to prison this will destroy her because she’s not mentally prepared for it. Her entire coping mechanism thus far has been denial, denial, denial. She has been telling herself she didn’t do anything wrong because all moms would do this if they could. She genuinely thinks she can put this behind her because she doesn’t think she acted in bad faith. She doesn’t grasp the seriousness of her actions and the prison sentence she’s facing. What’s stopping a prosecutor and a judge in making an example out of her? Nothing. This is a very high profile case. If she gets away with it, it will only be proof of what we’ve been saying forever: white privilege is a hell of a drug.
I really hope she doesn’t get away with it but at the same time, she’s the least prepared person to go jail, and I don’t think she will fair well there. She should pay for her crimes, but damn, part of me does worry that she’s not cut out for jail. They will eat here alive there. This is why you don’t break the law, people! Not everyone can handle going to jail.
But who cares how she’ll handle jail? I’m not understanding the point of talking about what she’s “cut out” for because she in fact IS a criminal. Also, I guess I’m not of the belief that anyone is naturally better built for jail, and that’s not the point anyway. If LL gets away with this there is nothing stopping her or anyone like her from doing something just like this again. They have to make an example of her.
I think it’s because LL is so white entitled and so in denial that it will be like hitting a brick wall when those bars get slammed shut. If in fact she gets bars.
She hopes the prosecutors will put this case behind them…HAHAHAAHAAAHAHA
There are really no words for this moronic lady.
Oh, I am sure they are looking forward to putting it behind them as well. They’re just anticipating a different outcome than she is.
I cannot believe what a storm of entitlement and delusion Aunt Becky is! I had never even heard of her before this all blew up. I’d seen Mossimo stuff but that was it.
I’m assuming that the daughters were still minors when they applied and were accepted to USC. Yes, they are obviously old enough to know right from wrong, but I can see a 16/17 yr old doing what their parents say. I also don’t think that it’s a stretch to think that the daughters were also bribed to go along with this.
Anyway, this woman is ridiculous and can’t imagine all the eyerolls that her lawyers are giving her.
Honestly, who are her lawyers and PR people.? Does she think that these stories make her and her MAGA husband and spoiled daughters look sympathetic, because they don’t She’s enraged that she they all cheated and people dare to call them cheaters? Huh? She comes across as not only entitled, but completely deluded and moronic as well. She wants to put is behind her? I don’t even know what that means. It isn’t going to go away just because she wants it to. I Get that she’s white and has money, but can she really be that stupid can she.? She literally embodies rich, white privilege.
Most people don’t give a crap about this woman and memories are short. But she’s played this so badly. She’s basically set herself up as the symbol of all that’s wrong in Trump’s America, and now people who previously couldn’t pick her out of a line up are salivating at the potential for schadenfruede.
Biiiiiiiitch…what planet do you live on?! Please join us down here on earth in time for your(hopefully long, bc f*ck her) jail sentence
YASSSS
Seems like Lori and her husband have already damaged their daughters futures.
They should take responsibility for their actions if the hope to minimize the lasting effects on their daughters.
The more they blame others, the worse for their daughters.
Yeah, she had her chance to put this behind her. If she had taken a plea deal, she could have been sentenced, done her time, laid low and come out with a book deal and/or her own biopic on Lifetime. Now she’s acting like she’s the reasonable one and the prosecution is just being soooooo mean!
My dad is a retired LA Co sheriff. He says it is normal for prosecutors to offer lesser charges and keep your kids out of trouble if you plead guilty. Lauglhlin didn’t so because she’s a narcissistic dummy. As my dad told me the prosecution said in response to Laughlin’s plea, “No? You’re not going to plead guilty? Okay. Here are some more charges and BTW now we’re investigating your kid as well. Enjoy the ride (wicked sneer).”
As for the posters who say Laughlin will get off because she’s rich and white. I say, “Not so fast.” In the past you can get away with screwing poor people but when you screw the rich and/or middle class, your wealth and privilege no longer are guaranteed to protect you. In this case a lot of white middle class parents are mad AF. So grab some popcorn and enjoy the ride. My prediction is Laughlin is going down.
@ Here in my jammies : Your dad is right – the original offer was a sweetheart deal to get a quick resolution. Now that she’s turned that down, the gloves are off.
Coincidence that the 2 most delusional white women share the same initials …i give you for your perusal Lori Laughlin (LL) and Lindsay Lohan (LL)😂
I loathe the phrase “in good faith.” It’s always just dripping with condescension and privilege.
When I taught horseback riding years ago, I had some religious homeschoolers take a few lessons and after lesson 3 or 4, the girl left her personal helmet and gloves sitting around the barn one day. There were several hundred students in and out of that barn each week, and we made it clear that personal property was your responsibility, etc. Her mother emailed me for months saying “we paid for lessons IN GOOD FAITH,” and “IN GOOD FAITH we expect that you must find her stuff,” and eventually told me that I was a bad person for not locating the personal items that her teenage daughter couldn’t keep up with.
“In good faith” = utter bullcrap
This didn’t really play out like I thought it would, but they are pleading not guilty and a part of me really would like to see someone go to trial for this and not just plead out. You get far more info from a trial, and I am curious of their defense. It’s certainly not this PR crap, as unless you hire Rudy Gulliani you will get a better defense. As far as her daughters go, you are incorrect two fold in legal terms, unless you know more than the prosecutors. They were unsure in their indictments whether the girls knew what was happening or not. I know this makes them seem stupid, but come on if true they commited fraud to get them into college. If the prosecutor had a case they would have filed against the girls, especially after they plead not guilty. That is when the prosecutors added additional charges to them. Indicting the daughters is big leverage, and the prosecutors haven’t gone there yet. I guess it could still be an option, but it seems unlikely at this point. Also, the girls were 17 when this was done so not adults at least legally.
1. I can’t stop reading about this case.
2. I want her and her husband to go down so hard.
3. I feel bad about wanting that, but god if we can’t get any relief from Trump, it would be nice to see someone pay for a crime for once.
4. Has anyone read Karen Stabiner’s book “Getting In”? It’s all about getting kids into college by any means necessary and echoes a lot of what happened in real life, including bribing. (She’s written for The NY Times, HuffPo, and so on.) I can’t shake the feeling that she might’ve known something in real
time and worked it into this novel. I’m re-reading it now,but how crazy would that be?