What would be the feeling you felt if your parents had made you privy to a scheme to get you and your sibling into college, then got busted by the feds, and then endured deeply public proceedings in federal court for over a year? “Rattled” would probably be an apt descriptor. And that’s what Bella and Olivia Jade Giannulli are feeling right now, post-parental-sentencing, pre-parental-prison time, according to an anonymous source at Us Weekly.
“Olivia and Bella have been rattled by the proceedings,” the source says. “They have been focusing more on family and not seeing friends as much. Both girls have been spending more time at home with their parents as of late.”
At their respective sentencing last month, Mossimo Giannulli made quick work of expressing regret to the judge for his role in the college-admissions scandal for which he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services wire and mail fraud. Lori Loughlin, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, however, did a full mea culpa, saying she made “an awful decision.”
“While I wish I could go back and do things differently, I can only take responsibility and move forward,” Loughlin said. “I have great faith in God and I believe in redemption and I will do everything in my power to redeem myself and use this experience as a catalyst to do good and give back for the rest of my life. Your honor, I am truly, profoundly and deeply sorry. I am ready to face the consequences and make amends.”
The source also told Us Weekly back in May, when the formerly Bel Air-based couple switched their pleas from not guilty to guilty, that the parents wanted to do prison at separate times. “Lori and Moss don’t want to serve their prison sentences at the same time. Among the reasons, even though their daughters are adults, Lori wants one parent to be free to provide emotional support to the girls,” Us’s source said at the time. “Lori’s concern all along has been Isabella and Olivia Jade.”
I did not know you could schedule your prison times so someone is home to take care of one’s adult daughters, but, well, you can’t. The judge ordered that they both report to their respective prisons on November 19. Still, it’s enough time to move fully into their new reported $9.5 million “farmhouse,” purchased after selling the highly reno-ed approximately $18 million home that the girls spent at least high school in, and enjoy some family time for awhile.
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