Designer Mossimo Giannulli, Lori Loughlin's husband accused of admitting scam, may have misrepresented his own education at the USC

Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, accused of bribing his daughters to become USC, may have made a false statement about his college education. to his parents.

Giannulli and his wife, actress Lori Loughlin, pleaded not guilty to having paid $ 500,000 in bribes to bring their daughters Isabella and Olivia to the USC as recruits d & # 39; rowing. The sisters have never been part of a crew. They are still officially registered at the school.

In an October 2016 article on the fashion blog "The Hundreds," author Bobby Hundreds writes that Giannulli "not only convinced his father that he was a student in falsifying the report cards, Mossimo has forced him to pay fees with fake tuition tickets. In fact, Moss used this start-up money to launch its foray into the t-shirt market. "

Giannulli has never been full-time student at the University of Southern California. And his daughter, Olivia Jade, influential in social media, also said in a podcast interview that he had used his tuition to launch his iconic business.

According to USC, Mossimo Giannulli attended USC during the spring semester 1984, but not as a fully enrolled student.

He was enrolled in the College of Continuing Education, a non-degree program open to anyone "without the condition of formal admission".

USC would not share what, if he was attending classes.

These students received a "visitor status". Nevertheless, Giannulli lived in a school fraternity.

On page 370 of the USC Yearbook of 1984, "El Rodeo", a young Mossimo Giannulli (misspelt Giannulci) sits in the middle of the class picture of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

A spokesman for the fraternity told CNN that at the time, "associating non-degree students with the fellowship would not have been unusual".

CNN contacted some members of the fraternity, but no call was returned.

Life at the fraternity marked a turning point in Giannulli's life.

Hundreds of people wrote on his blog that Giannulli said: "The SC was expensive, so it 's like that I started my business. I used all that money … I had hundreds of thousands of money in my most expensive drawer of my fraternity house. And I thought, "It's a little too easy. I need a bigger platform. If I had a bigger account base, I could really kill her … "###

Giannulli then turned his t-shirt business into "Mossimo". He was then fired by Target. Giannulli sold his interest in the company in 2006 and has not worked for the brand for several years, according to the new owners.

Giannulli's youngest daughter Olivia, 19, was accepted by USC and was registered in the fall of 2018. Influencer on social media, with nearly 2 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, she has talked about his father's "crazy time" at college during a recent video podcast, "The Zach Sang Show".

The interview was published on March 8, 2019, just four days before his parents were charged. Professionally known as Olivia Jade, she told Sang: "I do not know if I'm supposed to say that, sorry dad. But (his father) was like never enrolled in college, he made his way through. Yes, so he started his business with tuition fees that his parents thought were going to the university. "

In that same interview, Olivia Jade explained that she was considering using her time at the university to improve her brand with her experience at the university. "Mostly, my parents really wanted me to leave because the two did not go to college … I think they did a good job. Hypocrites. But I am so happy that they made me leave. It seems so terrible, they did not do it. "

Since then, Olivia Giannulli has put everything on the market, from Amazon products to invisible dental appliances. Recently, she filed a trademark registration application for makeup kits. Perry Viscounty, the lawyer on the application, also represents his parents in the college admissions file. CNN attempted to contact Mossimo and Olivia Giannulli via Viscounty, but declined to comment.

Perry Viscounty is also enrolled in the USC as a student and law student. And listed just two rows behind Mossimo Giannulli in this photo of Beta Theta Pi from 1984 – brother of the Perry Viscounty fraternity. Maybe a good lesson of connections.

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