The Operation Varsity Blues scandal has touched many lives, but while one of Lori Loughlin’s daughters is apparently furious with her mother for ruining her influencer career it seels that her academic career isn’t necessarily finished at the school Loughlin bribed her way into.
Loughlin — the star of countless Hallmark movies and Full House, among other projects — spent $500,000 getting her two daughters into USC under the guise of rowing scholarships. Earlier in the saga it was reported that the two daughters of Loughlin — Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose — would not return to USC fearing bullying from their fellow students.
The subsequent news was that Olivia Jade — who was on the yacht of a USC board of trustee member when her mother was arrested — was angry at Loughlin for causing the “downfall of her career” through giving her fraudulent access to an education she didn’t want.
But a report from NBC News says that the two sisters had not yet left the school, and it’s unclear if they are actually withdrawing at all.
“We have confirmed that both Olivia Giannulli and Isabella Giannulli still are enrolled,” USC media relations specialist Ron Mackovich told NBC News in a statement.
“USC is conducting a case-by-case review for current students and graduates that may be connected to the scheme alleged by the government and will make informed decisions as those reviews are completed.”
The recruiting scandal uncovered by Operation Varsity Blues has, at least publicly, hit USC harder than most other schools, with fake spots on the USC Trojans football team up for grabs as a result of the scam. Whether Loughlin’s daughters leave school voluntarily or if USC kicks them out is still uncertain, but if the two are looking to lay low while the criminal proceedings for their parents play out, it would make sense that they don’t pop up on USC’s campus again for a while.
[via Today.com]