‘Operation Varsity Blues’: The Elite College Corruption Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight [Review]

Mossimo Giannulli is getting out of federal prison early after serving time for his part in the college admissions scandal.

Mossimo Giannulli has left the federal prison where he served five months for his role in the nationwide college admissions scandal, Fox News can confirm. Online prison records viewed by Fox News confirm that Lori Loughlin's husband, who is 57, has been transferred to RRM Long Beach, which is a residential reentry facility.  Giannulli spent the last five months at a federal prison in Lompoc near Santa Barbara, California.

Homeward bound. Lori Loughlin‘s husband, Mossimo Giannulli, has completed his time behind bars early after being sentenced to five months in prison for his role in the college admissions scandal, Us Weekly confirms.

Olivia Jade Giannulli is looking on the bright side.The 21-year-old daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli got candid about being «publicly shamed» after her parents' involvement in the college admissions scandal. In a TikTok posted on Friday, she shared a message that a «very inspirational woman» told her.«We were talking about being publicly shamed, and I was like, 'Well, my situation doesn't even compare, I'm not even going to start to compare it to yours,'» Olivia said.

Olivia Jade reflected on what it was like to be “publicly shamed” for her parent’s involvement in the college admissions scandal.

Live and learn. Olivia Jade Giannulli had gone through her fair share of ups and downs following her parents’ arrest for their alleged part in the college admissions scandal. However, the YouTube star, 21, has learned a lot from the experience.

TikTok to share an inspirational message that has stuck with her since news of the scandal broke. "A very inspirational woman once told me, we were talking about being in the public and being publicly shamed, and I was like, 'Well, my situation doesn't even compare, I'm not even going to start to compare it to yours,'" the daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli shared.

Olivia Jade is opening up and looking back on her life experiences following her parents, Lori Loughlin and Massimo Giannulli, being involved in the college admissions scandal.

Olivia Jade Giannullli is sharing the lesson about judgement that these past few years have taught her. 

NEW YORK -- Chris Smith didn’t initially think the 2019 college bribery scandal made for a good documentary subject. He was editing “Fyre,” the hit Netflix documentary about the music-festival fiasco, when his longtime collaborator, Jon Karmen, suggested another real tale of fraud and spectacle be their next film.“I didn’t see it at all,” said Smith in a recent interview.

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal takes a closer look at the nationwide bribery scam — and its mastermind, William “Rick” Singer.

Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannuli, TPG Capital executive Bill McGlashan and Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janvas have all been sentenced.Also Read: Netflix's College Admissions Scandal Doc Starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer to Debut in MarchBut still, 60 year-old Singer remains very much a free man and is out and about in Newport Beach on $500,000 bail. He admitted to a Boston judge in 2019, “I am absolutely responsible for it.

2019 college admissions cheating scandal that rocked elite universities and Hollywood, and it gives viewers a better understanding of William “Rick” Singer, the college coach who orchestrated the entire racketeering ring.Singer ran a fraudulent education nonprofit called The Key which he would use to funnel donations from wealthy clients to the staff at elite universities like Harvard, Yale, and USC as bribes in exchange for admission or spots on athletic teams.

Netflix debuted its documentary about the college admissions scandal, which seemingly refocused the conversation on scam mastermind William "Rick" Singer.

Olivia Jade Giannulli, would be guaranteed a spot at the University of Southern California.

Lori Loughlin is feeling mixed emotions. Outside of her film and television credits, the 56-year-old actress is known for her involvement in the college admissions scandal, for which, she served time in prison.

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin as well as ringleader William “Rick” Singer, were charged in a massive college admissions cheating scam in March 2019. The charges were the end result of an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues,” named after the 1999 teen film starring James Van Der Beek.

From Fyre and Tiger King to Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (about Jim Carrey and his Andy Kaufman portrayal in Man on the Moon), director and producer Chris Smith has a knack for finding the most watchably weird projects. Smith's latest, Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, blends narrative- and documentary-style filmmaking.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn criminal cases, wiretapped phone conversations are commanding pieces of evidence (juries love them), and in documentaries about crime they tend to be some of the most gripping. We hear people as they really are.

“A little bit of justice being served in a sea of injustice” is how cultural critic and interviewee Naomi Fry describes the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal and why it seized the nation’s attention for a few pre-pandemic weeks. The gap between the myth of American meritocracy and the reality of the have-everythings cheating or gaming the system to hoard even more resources has seldom been more glaring than in this case.