Lori Loughlin, an actress best known for playing Aunt Becky on the 1990s sitcom “Full House,” will spend two months in prison for her role in signature “rich white privilege” fraud to get her daughters into the University of Southern California, the Associated Press reports.
Loughlin and her husband, fashioned designer Mossimo Giannulli, created false historiess for her daughters, including details that they was a recruit for the USC crew team, to secure the children’s admission to the University.
Loughlin and her husband also paid Rick Singer–an informer for investigators who posed as an admissions counselor–half a million dollars to create a portfolio depicting their children as all-star rowers and excelling academics–neither of which was true.
Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli withdrew from USC before the Fall 2019 semester. Olivia Jade is now an Instagram “influencer” whose photos often showed her on a yacht provided to the president of USC.
Loughlin must serve two months in prison and her husband must serve five months. They must also pay a combine $400,000 fine and do a combine 400 hours of community service.
There is no word whether the Asian student group suing Yale because of racial diversification in admissions will undertake action against USC to challenge the rich privilege in admissions or if they shall choose to challenge the tradition of legacy admissions to universities which favors students who would normally not be admitted to certain colleges.