‘Operation Varsity Blues’ Trailer: Matthew Modine Stars In A New Doc About The College Admissions Scandal

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.

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.

Lori Loughlin is ready to move forward after the college admissions scandal, and hopes others do as well.

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.

The story behind the U.S. college admissions scandal is coming to Netflix this week in the new hybrid-documentary “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal”. Now, former U.S. prosecutor Andrew Lelling is speaking out about the case, offering new insight into the case behind the scandal’s most famous faces: Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin, and Mossimo Giannulli.

A dutiful crime documentary that raises few hackles, “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal,” doesn’t waste breath on moralistic huffing and puffing about what a certain group of rich parents did to get their children into exclusive colleges. It also, delightfully, expends precious little screen time on the celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin, whose faces and names featured in nearly all news stories about this story when it broke in early 2019.

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.

Olivia Jade Giannulli isn't sitting back and accepting snarky comments. The young social media star posted to TikTok on Sunday, responding to a comment she received that was making fun of her parents' high-profile involvement in college admissions scandal.The commenter simply asked «How’s collage?» Olivia Jade, however, used the typo to jokingly talk about her recent collage art, instead of anything to do with college.«Thank you for asking.

OK, OK, we know what you’re thinking. Olivia Jade is the last person who should be schooling anyone. But hey, we call ’em like we see ’em!

No time for haters! Olivia Jade Giannulli clapped back at a troll who tried to bring up the college admissions scandal, which resulted in her parents, Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli, serving time in prison.

Lori Loughlin, 56, was doing a good deed in her first public outing since her prison release. The Full House star, who finished her two-month prison sentence for the college admissions scandal in Dec., was seen carrying bags of groceries while volunteering with Project Angel Food in Los Angeles, CA on Mar.

Rick Singer — the ringleader of the bombshell 2019 college admissions scandal — used to exploit the system.Called “Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal” and set for a March 17 premiere, the 100-minute documentary film uses interviews and recreations of FBI-wiretapped conversations to show a glimpse of Singer’s shady operation.“We help the wealthiest families in the US get their kids into school,” said actor Matthew Modine, who stars as Singer in the film, in the first minute

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix shines an unflattering light on the infamous college admissions scandal in the first trailer for the upcoming documentary “Operation Varsity Blues.”The film, using real conversations recreated from FBI wiretaps, delves deep into the 2019 nationwide scandal that gripped the country and saw rich and influential parents buy their kids’ ways into top schools.The trailer leans heavily into some dramatic irony.“Is there any risk that this thing blows up in

Netflix just dropped the new trailer for the upcoming documentary based on the infamous 2019 college admissions scandal, “Operation Varsity Blues”.

college admissions scandal, which ultimately sent actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to jail, is the subject of a new Netflix documentary called. The title is a reference to the code name the FBI gave the investigation that exposed a scheme to fraud elite colleges around the nation.