What would you do with three months, if you knew it was going to be all prison food all the time for a while after that? Would you travel in a way that says, “I’m not a flight risk, promise,” like on a boat or a big road trip? Or would you live simply, just trying to savor what life has been until now, what maybe you weren’t appreciating as fully as you could have? Like would you eat fresh produce every day, call your friends and family just to say, “hi,” or toast at dinner to “a wonderful life”? Or would you maybe hit the links?
Mossimo Giannulli is in fact hitting the links according to paparazzi photos taken of him carrying his golf bag this week. A federal court him sentenced on August 21, and on November 19, he’ll have to turn himself over to the feds again so he can do a big prison time for five months. He had three months to get affairs in order, get moved into the new home, and get a few rounds on the links in. You know, live normally in your new $9.5 million farmhouse as much as someone constantly followed by paparazzi can.
Giannulli, remember, was sentenced to those five months for his role in the college-admission scandal—that is, getting his two daughters into the University of Southern California through fraudulent means. His wife Lori Loughlin herself was sentenced to two months in federal prison for her lesser, but still involved role. They each have to pay a fine, $250,000 and $150,000 respectively, and do community service. They initially tried to fight the charges, but then, after about a year of that, bowed to court pressure, switching their plea from not guilty and taking a plea deal.
But the point is that the former designer of Target’s Mossimo brand is really doing it. He’s getting out there on a green somewhere. He won’t be able to again until April, so, sure, he’s getting all his hurrahs in before the final hurrah for a while. For the occasion, he wore a polo and light shorts, the uniform that all golfers are forced to wear against their will. His facial hair? Grown out for reasons that he’s allowed. In the end, who can say where lockdown beards end and lockup beards begin?
It’s unclear where he went to exercise those irons from the photos. He and Loughlin resigned from the tony Bel-Air Country Club that they belonged to because they had caused a divide among members about whether it should kick the Loughlin–Giannullis out for pleading guilty to fraud. But surely he can still get a day pass, no?
After months of news and sightings and anonymous sources, it’s been a little quiet on the family front for these guys. But around the time her dad was spotted doing his thing, Olivia Jade posted a photo doing hers. In it, she’s coasting through life on a skateboard. She is doing a big California thing out there, wearing a pink bikini and learning how to become a lord of Dogtown. More power to this family, who have found healthy ways to cope with a familial rupture (that is, with sports, mainly).
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