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Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, are worried about their parents possibly heading to jail after agreeing to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal.
What’s the news:
- On Thursday, Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli agreed to plead guilty in the college admissions scandal. The guilty plea comes after they spent more than a year maintaining their innocence.
- The guilty plea is subject to a judge’s acceptance.
How Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose feel
- Unnamed sources told Us Weekly magazine that the two daughters feel upset that their parents could be heading to jail — an obvious feeling for any child to feel for their parents.
- The source reportedly said: “Olivia and Bella were devastated when Lori and Mossimo told them they were pleading guilty. The girls have been spending a lot of time at their parents’ house recently, and they are becoming much more of a tight-knit family.”
- The source said the daughters are happy the scandal could soon be behind them.
- The source said: “The girls have been on so many ups and downs that they were happy it was going to be over, but (they) fear for their mom going to jail.”
Details of the plea agreement
- Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli were originally charged with paying $500,000 in bribes so that their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli, would be crew team recruits for the University of Southern California. The couple pleaded not guilty. The couple was set to stand trial in October.
- That changed Thursday. The couple will plead guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton in a date yet to be decided, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.
- Loughlin will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and Giannulli will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.
- Loughlin will be sentenced to two months in prison, a $150,000 fine and two years of supervised released with 100 hours of community service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.
- Mossimo Giannulli will be sentenced to five months in prison, a $250,000 fine and two years supervised release with 250 hours of community service, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.