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YouTuber, influencer … cheater? Lori Loughlin, mother of Olivia Jade and her sister, Isabella Rose, have been accused of corrupting USC.
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Olivia Jade, Lori Loughlin's famous daughter on YouTube, now has news of her former classmates.

Loughlin is one of the famous people accused in the corruption scandal in the universities. She and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, reportedly agreed in July 2016 to pay bribes totaling $ 500,000 in exchange for sending their two daughters to the hospital. University of Southern California as crewmembers, even though they were not athletes.

Olivia Jade, a student who went to high school in Los Angeles, said everything made sense to her.

"When all this cheating scandal will be published, I will not say that I was surprised to live in this world," said YouTube lifestyle and beauty blogger Harlow Brooks, currently at high school.

Although Brooks no longer attends Olivia Jade and her sister Bella, a "super-elite" private school, she attended her for a year when she first moved to Los Angeles from the north of California.

Lori Loughlin with her daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli at the Gala An unforgettable evening for the Women's Cancer Research Fund on February 27, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo: Steve Granitz / WireImage)

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Brooks describes a high-pressure materialistic culture in which students drove Range Rovers and Porsches to school.

"In Los Angeles, there is a network of five to seven private schools with tuition fees ranging from $ 30,000 to $ 45,000 a year. And the work is literally harder than college. It is crazy what these students are going through to go to these schools because their parents think they need them. Because they want them to go to Yale, Harvard and USC, "Brooks said in a video that now boasts more than 2.4 million views.

According to Brooks, the pressure on the students is extreme, revealing that his classmates were so stressed out that "they were taking Adderall, antidepressants (and taking) medication for anxiety."

All of these reasons explain why Brooks said she was so bewildered to see that the two Loughlin girls were admitted to USC. She recalls speculating at the time "it was because their mother was a celebrity or that she was perhaps giving a lot of money".

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The teenager remembers being surprised that Olivia can juggle her character on YouTube and a lot of school work at the girls' only school.

"I had to get up at 6 in the morning every morning and leave school at 4 PM. and then, I'd have six hours of homework, "says Brooks, who remembers taking a class with Olivia Jade, describing her as" pretty "and" pretty. "

"It made me think: how is she doing that? … I thought, "How is she traveling for YouTube? How does she have time to create videos on YouTube? An arrangement with the school or something? It made no sense to me. "

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