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It has long been assumed that Olivia Jade Giannulli, the influencer and vlogger daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, was involved in the college admissions scandal that has plagued her parents since last spring. April 2019 court documents, for example, showed Jade’s email address being copied on several scam messages, and a year later, federal prosecutors published staged photos of Jade with a rowing machine – photos that appeared in her application at USC , who claimed she was a completed coxswain who would be recruited to join the crew. New court documents filed by federal prosecutors released on August 17, however, suggest that Jade had numerous conversations with her parents about how she would hide the scheme from her supervisor, who was increasingly suspected of the truth of their university applications. These new documents state that Jade was actively discussing with her parents “how to prevent the possibility that a high school counselor would disrupt her schedule.”
“They involved both daughters in the fraud, and allowed them to engage in staged photos for use in fake athletic profiles and instruct one daughter on how to hide her high school counselor’s schedule,” he said. the documents, referring to Jade and her older sister, Isabella Giannulli. ‘When her daughter [Jade] asked if they should list USC as their top-choice school, Loughlin replied, ‘Yes, but it may be a flag for the weasel to mediate.’ ‘The’ weasel ‘is in reference to her supervisor, who Loughlin did not ask Jade to “say too much” about her requests because the adviser acted as a “nosy bastard.” Documents also say Giannulli had a personal confrontation with the councilor in the spring of 2018, when the councilor contacted USC to express doubts that Jade was a rudder. The next day, the counselor returned the course and sent Giannulli to confirm that USC now knows that Jade is “really a coxswain.”
Loughlin and Giannulli have both pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with their involvement in the scam. They are expected to be sentenced Friday, with Loughlin sentenced to two months in prison, a $ 150,000 fine, and two years of probation with 100 hours of community service released. As for Jade, she has only intermittently posted on social media and her popular YouTube channel since the scandal broke. “I have not been legally allowed to talk about what is happening right now,” she calmly explained in a video from last December. “I really miss filming and I feel like a big part of me is not the same because this is something I’m really passionate about and something I enjoy doing.” Jade is not returning to USC for further semesters.
