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Post by betty80 on Mar 13, 2019 22:16:14 GMT
ETA - You can hear the interview at the link.
Lori Loughlin's YouTube star daughter said her parents forced her to go to college and her designer father 'faked his way through college' by using money meant for tuition to start his business"The YouTube star daughter of actress Lori Loughlin admitted just last week that her parents forced her to go to college and that her father 'faked his way' through school by using tuition money to start his design business. Olivia Jade Giannulli has been slammed ever since her parents were charged Tuesday for paying $500,000 to get her and her 20-year-old sister Isabella into the University of Southern California. Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli allegedly paid to have their two daughters labeled as USC crew team recruits, even though neither of them are rowers. Olivia has since come under fire for 'ignorant' comments she has made about college, including an interview just last week in which she admitted that she only went to college because her parents forced her. 'Mostly my parents really wanted me to go because both of them didn't go to college... I think they did fine,' Olivia said on the Zach Sang Show, before joking that her parents were 'hypocrites'. 'I'm so happy they made me go, that sounds so terrible. They didn't make me. My sister goes to the same school and we're pretty much inseparable.' Later in that same interview, Olivia spoke about how her dad inspired her and revealed that he had 'faked' his way through college. 'He, like, built his whole entire brand and he wasn't actually, like - I don't know if I'm supposed to say this - ever enrolled in college,' she said. 'But he, like, faked his way through it and then he started his whole business with tuition money that his parents thought was going to college. That's, like, such a different time. I don't know if I was supposed to say that, but it's okay. 'So he started Mossimo then and it sold to Target. He was a baller.' Olivia has previously made controversial comments when she revealed to her two million YouTube followers that she didn't 'really care about school' but wanted to experience 'game days and partying'. She posted a video to her YouTube channel on the day she was due to start college last year, saying: 'I don't know how much of school I'm gonna attend. 'But I'm gonna go in and talk to my deans and everyone, and hope that I can try and balance it all. But I do want the experience of like game days, partying… I don't really care about school, as you guys all know.' She was forced to apologize several days later after her viewers slammed her for being 'ignorant' and 'spoiled'. The 19-year-old has also cashed in on being student during her brief time at USC. She posted sponsored content for Amazon Prime on her Instagram account in September that featured an image of her inside her USC dorm room. 'Officially a college student! It's been a few weeks since I moved into my dorm and I absolutely love it. I got everything I needed from Amazon with @primestudent and had it all shipped to me in just two-days,' the post read. As news of the charges broke on Tuesday, a USC Trojans flag could still be seen waving outside her parent's 10-bedroom mansion overlooking Bel Air Country Club. Loughlin and Giannulli, who have been married since 1997, listed the property for sale for a whopping $35 million back in 2017. Giannulli used their house as collateral to make bail on Tuesday. Loughlin turned herself in to the FBI on Wednesday morning and is scheduled for a court appearance in the afternoon. Her parents were two of the 50 parents and coaches charged on Tuesday in a plot to get their children into schools including Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, University of San Diego, USC, University of Texas, Wake Forest and Yale. The scheme involved parents paying bribes of between $100,000 to $2.5 million to get their children into these elite schools. In many instances, authorities said the children were unaware that their parents had paid these bribes. Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman was also charged as part of the scheme. Most of those charged either paid to get higher SAT scores or faked an athletic resume that, with the participation of a bribed college coach, helped the children get accepted to a college as a team's recruit. Federal prosecutors in Boston charged William 'Rick' Singer, 58, with running the racketeering scheme through his Edge College & Career Network. His network served a roster of clients including actresses and chief executives."
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Post by Critical on Mar 13, 2019 22:37:09 GMT
I really hope that changes one day. I'm tired of these instagram/youtube celebrities. Influencers, that's a job? Lots of them doing it, only a few making a go of it. Personally, I don't spend a lot of time on you tube. It's a verrrry lucrative job too. Enough to make you rethink your own choices ![:lol](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/kZvKcZukVaJcAqJidzda.gif) These young (mostly) girls rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
It's not just SM celebs. If you see a random celeb in CVS shopping for whatever and they're holding a bottle of some product, conveniently turned perfectly, so you can see the label, yeah, they're being paid. Walking down the street, carrying a bunch of stuff, including a bottle of Pure Leaf Tea or wearing an item of clothing that's identified in the caption? Paid. Frankly, most of the pics you see of celebs out in the world that just seem like they're awfully good shots, are probably because the celeb called the pap and set up a time to get photographed.
I especially get a chuckle out of the impromptu, but oddly HUGE photo shoots of celebs romping around on the beach. It's how these people stay in the public eye and make a little side money. Although a lot of those pics end up on lightweight gossip sites like Just Jared or Perez Hilton, they do end up in US and several other print mags too.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 13, 2019 22:56:47 GMT
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Post by kiz on Mar 13, 2019 23:09:09 GMT
One of the many things about this college admissions cheating scandal that infuriates me is the dummy charity Rick Singer set up for *under privileged children* - aka Rick Singer and money for their bribery schemes. The parents then used the fake charitable donations as tax deductions. How sick is that?
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Post by Kao on Mar 14, 2019 0:13:47 GMT
Whoops. Looks like someone's money train has jumped ship. I wonder how many other accounts she's going to lose?
"HP has already cut its ties with Olivia Jade. In a statement, the company said, 'HP worked with Lori Loughlin and Olivia Jade in 2017 for a one-time product campaign. HP has removed the content from its properties.' A post promoting HP’s Sprocket photo printer is currently still live on Olivia Jade’s Instagram account.
Olivia Jade Giannulli had also cut brand deals with partners including Amazon, Dolce & Gabbana, Lulus, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Sephora, Smashbox Beauty Cosmetics, Smile Direct Club, Too Faced Cosmetics, Boohoo, and Unilever’s TRESemmé."
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Post by betty80 on Mar 14, 2019 1:02:57 GMT
Whoops. Looks like someone's money train has jumped ship. I wonder how many other accounts she's going to lose? "HP has already cut its ties with Olivia Jade. In a statement, the company said, 'HP worked with Lori Loughlin and Olivia Jade in 2017 for a one-time product campaign. HP has removed the content from its properties.' A post promoting HP’s Sprocket photo printer is currently still live on Olivia Jade’s Instagram account.
Olivia Jade Giannulli had also cut brand deals with partners including Amazon, Dolce & Gabbana, Lulus, Marc Jacobs Beauty, Sephora, Smashbox Beauty Cosmetics, Smile Direct Club, Too Faced Cosmetics, Boohoo, and Unilever’s TRESemmé."I must really be out of the loop. I have heard of most of these companies but I've never heard of Olivia Jade until this scandal.
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Post by Kao on Mar 14, 2019 1:24:55 GMT
Good article that uncovers a lot of the other people involved in the scandal and what they did: deadspin.com/get-to-know-the-rich-assholes-charged-with-paying-milli-1833244052These people...*sigh* Being born on third base and cheating to get a home run. And the way some of these parents talk about their children...ugh. These kids don't have to worry about food or shelter, more than likely already going to a highly rated high school, have access to tutors, afterschool ACT and SAT training programs and can afford tuition (instead of working their way thru college like myself and a lot of other people I know) and they do this? Kids literally travel an hour and a half here to go to a magnet school that has the course requirements to get into a good school. They literally work their behinds off and work twice as hard to be considered half as good, while these kids with all the resources in the world to do well cheat instead. I'm so disgusted by this.
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Post by FannyMare on Mar 14, 2019 19:54:45 GMT
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Post by libgirl2 on Mar 14, 2019 20:06:58 GMT
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Post by Amy Lee on Mar 14, 2019 20:16:18 GMT
I'm on board with this.
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Post by libgirl2 on Mar 14, 2019 21:16:40 GMT
that isn't a yacht, its a ship! Must be rough.
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Post by justCoz on Mar 14, 2019 21:29:25 GMT
I followed this link, and kept scrolling, so I think I was on a different article, even though I never went to a different page. Chrissy Tiegan's tweet cracked me up. She obviously photoshopped John's and her faces on athletic bodies and asked if it looked real because they were trying to get into Harvard. What's amazing is that this has been going on for several years, and not just at one college, or one testing facility. It was multi-layered.
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Post by Critical on Mar 14, 2019 21:45:46 GMT
That list of companies who made deals with Olivia is surprising. I'm pretty shocked that they'd attach themselves to her in the first place, but it sounds like they're detaching themselves now. Karma is fun!
The thing is, while she'll lose sponsorship money from this and maybe even get booted from school (sounds like her academic performance could do that anyway) and she'll probably even experience further negative consequences on top of that, it's not like she's going to end up working the counter at McDonald's or cleaning toilets or something. She's young, beautiful and her family is rich. There will always be a rich man willing to give her money.
That board member whose yacht Olivia was on? Yeah, he needs to be removed from the USC board immediately. Maybe it was totally innocent, but it shows tremendously bad judgment on his part.
Apparently, LL will have to surrender her passport at the end of the year, once her contracted work with Hallmark is done. I have to wonder if they're going to continue any relationship with her now that she's been charged with several different types of mail fraud (and possibly other crimes). Talk about bad optics!
ETA: and I guess I have my answer about LL and the Hallmark channel! I wonder if that means When Calls the Heart is dunzo. I thought she also had a producer credit on that show. I never watched it, but I think it's pretty successful for them. It sounds like the mystery series she did is definitely over. Sad for the other actors and the crew who are now out of work because of this.
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Post by acookertv on Mar 14, 2019 22:02:26 GMT
The headlines about the yacht trip bother me because they are very misleading and paint Olivia in a light that she does not deserve to be in. She is very close friends with the board members daughter. They went away for spring break together and were on the yacht as part of that trip. To me, the headlines read like this co-ed was hooking up with a rich board member with a yacht. The truth of two rich college girls going on a yacht at spring break is a MUCH different story.
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Post by kiz on Mar 14, 2019 23:02:37 GMT
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Post by justCoz on Mar 14, 2019 23:31:09 GMT
The headlines about the yacht trip bother me because they are very misleading and paint Olivia in a light that she does not deserve to be in. She is very close friends with the board members daughter. They went away for spring break together and were on the yacht as part of that trip. To me, the headlines read like this co-ed was hooking up with a rich board member with a yacht. The truth of two rich college girls going on a yacht at spring break is a MUCH different story. They bother me a little too because I don't think that guy had anything to do with the scandal. He's allowed to own a yacht that his daughter uses for spring break. He's just getting attention because they happened to have a friend on it when her parents were indicted.
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Post by JoRyMom on Mar 15, 2019 0:49:01 GMT
They’re withdrawing because they fear bullying. Boo hoo.
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Post by kiz on Mar 15, 2019 1:32:39 GMT
They’re withdrawing because they fear bullying. Boo hoo. They certainly need a publicist, since they obviously don't have common sense. That goes over like a lead balloon. At the very least, they should have said that given the circumstances, they felt the best thing for everyone was for them to withdraw.
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Post by Imperfect1 on Mar 15, 2019 1:58:28 GMT
That list of companies who made deals with Olivia is surprising. I'm pretty shocked that they'd attach themselves to her in the first place, but it sounds like they're detaching themselves now. Karma is fun!
The thing is, while she'll lose sponsorship money from this and maybe even get booted from school (sounds like her academic performance could do that anyway) and she'll probably even experience further negative consequences on top of that, it's not like she's going to end up working the counter at McDonald's or cleaning toilets or something. She's young, beautiful and her family is rich. There will always be a rich man willing to give her money. Yes, Olivia will always have her family's money, but if CRIMINAL CHARGES are filed against her (as they well may be) and she ends up with a CRIMINAL RECORD --- that will change the trajectory of her life in a major way.
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Post by Critical on Mar 15, 2019 2:00:32 GMT
The headlines about the yacht trip bother me because they are very misleading and paint Olivia in a light that she does not deserve to be in. She is very close friends with the board members daughter. They went away for spring break together and were on the yacht as part of that trip. To me, the headlines read like this co-ed was hooking up with a rich board member with a yacht. The truth of two rich college girls going on a yacht at spring break is a MUCH different story. The thing is, it really doesn't matter what the truth is. It's about perception. That man is a member of the Board of Trustees at USC. Regardless of whether or not his daughter an Olivia are friends, it's not appropriate for him to host ANY students (his daughter notwithstanding, obviously) at USC on his yacht unless in the context of an official university function. It speaks to his poor judgment and a lack of common sense. It gives the appearance that certain students receive preferential treatment....or, rather, it confirms the fact that certain students receive preferential treatment. He had to have known how the media would spin things and how it would look for him and for the students involved and, for me, it's a reason for the university to ask for him to resign from the BoT.
SO, LL and her husband paid at least $500K (some stories I read indicated it was $500K per daughter, others indicated it was $500K for both) to cheat the system and now she's out of a quite lucrative job and neither of her daughters are students at USC and will probably have a very difficult time getting into any other university. ASU isn't looking so bad now, is it, you elitist snobs? (and ASU is a good school, for the record). I hope they saved their money because they're not going to get hired for anything now. Actually, I have a few Mossimo sweaters from target that I like very much. I went a few months ago to buy another one and couldn't find ANY Mossimo sweaters on the Target site. I haven't checked back since, but I wondered if Target ended their relationship with him. I did like those sweaters...
Those girls should do themselves a favor and stay OUT of the public eye for a good long time. Maybe spend some time focusing on something other than themselves - volunteer at a homeless shelter, a community outreach program, a suicide hotline, etc. Perhaps they can enroll in an online education program and actually learn something. I hope LL and her husband learned something: you can't expect your children to aspire to a college education if nothing about how you raise them shows that you value education. Those Christmas haul videos Olivia has done on YouTube are a study in spoiled entitlement. At least if she kept those designer purses and shoes in good condition she'll be able to sell them and make some money. I have a feeling more sponsors will be dropping her in the coming days....
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 15, 2019 2:07:20 GMT
According to TMZ, both of Loughlin's daughters are withdrawing from college. I'm not surprised. I can't imagine going to class under the cloud of this scandal. No surprise there. Why would they want to walk the halls of USC when they got in illegally AND that their parents are headed to jail so they could walk those USC halls.
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Post by justCoz on Mar 15, 2019 2:26:46 GMT
I hope they just get rid of Lori's character on When Calls the Heart. They already survived a main character leaving, fine with me if hers goes too, and they continue the show.
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Post by Critical on Mar 15, 2019 2:27:58 GMT
To my knowledge, NONE of the children are currently under investigation. It appears that the parents were the ones actively breaking the law, or at least they were the ones paying the money to various people. Even if the children knew about what was going on, I'd guess there's not any/enough evidence to prove it.
The official word is that the girls left school to avoid bullying, which sounds pretty accurate, although I'd guess it's also a case of "You can't fire me. I quit." I'm sure the students who worked their tails off to be there would have something to say about girls whose parents paid half a mil to get them in....and who openly talk about how they don't want to be there.
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Post by justCoz on Mar 15, 2019 2:30:44 GMT
To my knowledge, NONE of the children are currently under investigation. It appears that the parents were the ones actively breaking the law, or at least they were the ones paying the money to various people. Even if the children knew about what was going on, I'd guess there's not any/enough evidence to prove it. The official word is that the girls left school to avoid bullying, which sounds pretty accurate, although I'd guess it's also a case of "You can't fire me. I quit." I'm sure the students who worked their tails off to be there would have something to say about girls whose parents paid half a mil to get them in....and who openly talk about how they don't want to be there. That's what it seems like to me, added to it that a lot of them weren't legal adults when the parents were doing the cheating . I've read a couple of articles mentioning that aspect of it.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 15, 2019 2:44:31 GMT
I am just all kinds of confused how those students who are not academically prepared for the likes of USC or any of the schools mentioned would even want to go there.
EVEN if mommy and daddy laid out thousands and millions for them to go there?
And once they did get accepted illegally HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY STAY IN with the work load.
This Olivia from what I have seen about her in the last few days seems so immature and not at all prepared for college.
Would HER being on that Campus not be a red flag to Profs?
Hence me saying BRING BACK THE COLLEGE INTERVIEW!!!
I think COLLEGES all colleges need to SERIOUSLY rethink their ADMISSIONS policies.
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Post by JustJuls on Mar 15, 2019 2:46:02 GMT
I haven't read too much on this situation. But I'm curious why mail fraud? Anyone know?
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Post by Critical on Mar 15, 2019 2:48:46 GMT
To my knowledge, NONE of the children are currently under investigation. It appears that the parents were the ones actively breaking the law, or at least they were the ones paying the money to various people. Even if the children knew about what was going on, I'd guess there's not any/enough evidence to prove it. The official word is that the girls left school to avoid bullying, which sounds pretty accurate, although I'd guess it's also a case of "You can't fire me. I quit." I'm sure the students who worked their tails off to be there would have something to say about girls whose parents paid half a mil to get them in....and who openly talk about how they don't want to be there. That's what it seems like to me, added to it that a lot of them weren't legal adults when the parents were doing the cheating . I've read a couple of articles mentioning that aspect of it. Exactly! Plus, even if they did know what was going on, they likely had zero contact with Singer or his company via email or phone and they weren't handing over the money. I doubt investigators have much, if any evidence to indict any of the kids anyway.
I'll bet other folks are shaking in their boots, just waiting to be outed for doing the same exact thing these parents are being indicated for. IIRC, Singer claimed he's helped upwards of 750 families.
I saw a tweet from Phil Mickelson a while ago claiming he'd used Singer's services to help his kids through the admissions process, but they are shocked at the illegal activity. Yeah, best to get out ahead of this one, Phil. I'm sure everyone will believe you! ![:lol](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/kZvKcZukVaJcAqJidzda.gif) Probably should have just kept his mouth shut.
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Post by Critical on Mar 15, 2019 2:52:00 GMT
I haven't read too much on this situation. But I'm curious why mail fraud? Anyone know? It's a super common charge. Basically, they likely used the US mail service to send the money, which means they used it to commit a crime.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 15, 2019 2:52:57 GMT
I haven't read too much on this situation. But I'm curious why mail fraud? Anyone know? Yes me too. Mail fraud and honest services mail fraud??? Loughlin, best known for her role as Aunt Becky on "Full House," turned herself into authorities this morning after she was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud for her role in the college admissions scam, according to a criminal complaint.
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Post by JustJuls on Mar 15, 2019 3:00:43 GMT
I haven't read too much on this situation. But I'm curious why mail fraud? Anyone know? It's a super common charge. Basically, they likely used the US mail service to send the money, which means they used it to commit a crime. Ahh, I see! Super easy to get charged with that I would guess. Off topic (sort of) ...I was just sent a $2800.00 with instructions asking me to be a secret shopper for CVS, Kroger and Walmart. ![:ohno](//storage.proboards.com/6943657/images/CmzmziJXIEoSdtEKIUiz.gif) I feel bad for the gullible people of the world.
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