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Actress Feels Like She Is In Quicksand

SOLVED!

[Blind Gossip] These two celebrities handled the same humiliating scandal completely differently.

Actress 1 immediately acknowledged her mistake, apologized for her desperate behavior, and took her punishment.

She is now moving on with her life.

Actress 2 did the opposite.

Actress 2 denied any culpability, blamed everyone else, and is still throwing money at the situation to fight against any kind of penalty.

That may be a big mistake.

She feels like she is in quicksand. The more she fights it, the more charges get thrown at her and the worse the potential outcome. She is scared for herself and for her whole family. At this point, though, she doesn’t think she can reverse course. She’s in too deep.

Is there anything else she can do?

She has been looking at every way possible to buy her way out of trouble. Not with the lawyer fees but by “incentivizing” others to help her get off the hook. So far, it’s not working.

It’s fascinating that she would use her fortune to try to buy her way out of this… when trying to buy her way IN was the cause of the whole problem to begin with!

Doesn’t she understand that being so full of hubris may result in a stint in the big house?

Similar: Celebs On A Plane

Actress 1:

Actress 2:

[Optional] Are you starting to feel sorry for Actress 2? What do you think should/will happen to her?

SOLVED!

Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

Actress 2: Lori Loughlin

Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, have plead GUILTY and are going to PRISON!

Loughlin and Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty to their role in the Varsity Blues college bribery scandal.

Lori Louglin will serve two months. Mossimo will serve five months. They also must pay fines and perform community service.

Let’s compare how Felicity Huffman and Lori Louglin handled this.

Felicity Huffman  (Desperate Housewives) plead guilty early on, apologized, and was sentenced to two weeks in prison.

While Huffman actually only spent eleven days in a green uniform (that was not designed by Mossimo Giannulli for Target), Lori Loughlin (Full House) did not want to do any time. So she took a different route.

Loughlin dug in early, threw more and more money at the case over the course of the past year, and tried to accuse everyone else of misconduct.

That was really dumb.

Loughlin’s strategy brought her nothing except more charges, more public scrutiny, the release of more damning evidence (like Olivia’s fake rowing resume and the staged photos of both Olivia and Isabella on rowing machines), and less public sympathy.

Your friends at Blind Gossip have been telling you for months that Loughlin and Giannulli knew that their strategy was not working.

We also told you that, despite reports, they were not getting a divorce and that they were regretting not taking a plea deal (see Back To School Tears for details).

As Loughlin and Giannulli kept fighting, more charges were made against them, more evidence was leaked/presented about them, and the more potential prison time they faced.

They were sinking deeper and deeper into the quicksand. The charges kept mounting until they reached the point where they were facing up to a combined total of forty years in prison.

FORTY. YEARS. IN PRISON.

That was the breaking point. That is why they finally took the plea deal.

First, a quick summary of the case.

From Thompson Reuters:

Actress Lori Loughlin, husband to plead guilty to U.S. college admissions scam

… Loughlin and Giannulli are among 53 people charged with involvement in a scheme where wealthy parents conspired with a California college admissions consultant to use bribery and other fraud to secure the admission of their children to top schools.

The consultant, William “Rick” Singer, pleaded guilty last year to running a scheme to facilitate cheating on college entrance exams and use bribery to secure the admission of various parents’ children to schools as fake athletic recruits.

Prosecutors allege Loughlin and Giannulli agreed with Singer to pay $500,000 in bribes to have their two daughters named as fake recruits to the University of Southern California crew team.

The couple was scheduled to face trial in October alongside several other parents charged in the admissions scandal. Their lawyers previously contended their clients did not know their money was used for bribes rather than university donations.

Riiight.

We had no idea that we were doing anything shady by paying a $500K bribe and creating fake photos and resumes for a sport our daughters never played! No idea! Look at us on our yacht!

This scamming, bribing, lying couple is now going to prison.

From LA Magazine:

Lori Loughlin Agrees to Two Months in Prison as Part of College Admissions Plea Deal

After months spent maintaining their innocence and even accusing prosecutors of stymieing their defense, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli have reportedly agreed to plead guilty to their role in the College Admissions Scandal.

Loughlin and Giannulli, who are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes to scheme mastermind Rick Singer to get their daughters Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose in USC, were among a handful of holdouts in the case.

That holding out strategy did not work for them.

Loughlin has agreed to a sentence of two months in prison, a $150,000 fine, and 100 hours of community service, while Giannulli agreed to a more brutal five-month sentence, plus a $250,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service.

Giannulli is taking the heat for more charges than his wife, who will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; Giannulli will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, plus honest services wire and mail fraud.

Even as other parents pled guilty and did their time—including actress Felicity Huffman, who served all of 11 days in a California prison—Loughlin and Giannulli continued to dig in their heels. But their prospects of overcoming the rap looked increasingly bleak as details of the case emerged, including a document that appeared to be a (poorly) falsified athletic resume for daughter Olivia Jade, who was admitted to USC as a member of the crew team, despite that she’s a social media influencer rather than a rower.

Loughlin and Giannulli are the 23rd and 24th parents to plead guilty in the Operation Varsity Blues scandal.

Justice is served.

It couldn’t happen to nicer people. Or lovelier children.

Congratulations to everyone who got this one right! Redstilettos was first!

Related: Back To School Tears

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Comments

  1. Babakazoo says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin

    Huffman did the right thing, owned up immediately and accepted her punishment

    Loughlin on the other hand, feels the is above the law and is pissing everyone off with her sense of entitlement and misguided belief that she is above the law. I say throw the book at her, lock her up!

  2. bec215d says

    Loughlin and many other celebrities have drunk their PR team’s Kool-Aid, and finding success early in life, fail to develop a realistic sense of personal responsibility. If people tell you continually that you’re amazing, special, unique, etc etc and you don’t have a good head on your shoulders, you’re going to believe it. But an explanation isn’t an excuse.

  3. aaaLiam says

    Obviously Felicity and Laughlin. I respect Felicity for acknowledging her culpability and taking her punishment. Hasn’t she already served her time over a year ago and moved on? And yet the even more guilty Laughlin is still trying to play the system. I hope Lori and hubs and even the girls are punished. A five million dollar fine and at least a year in prison for them.

  4. Fantastwriter says

    Sure, Lori Laughlin is, at this time, easy to hate. But what is happening here is something we’re all endanger of facing. You’ve heard the term, “you can’t fight city hall.” There is a reason for that. Government, once you’ve been targeted, will do anything, spend any amount of your money, to be successful in their goal. Once they charge you they will not accept anything less than guilty even if you’re not. Plea bargains are common because few can stand the government.

  5. GeorgiaR says

    I despise Lori Loughlin and her husband for the legal strategy they are taking. I truly hope they get a huge fine and a long prison term. What they did and are currently doing sends the wrong message to their children and is very damaging. What Felicity Huffman did was also wrong and equally damaging, but at least she had the guts and humility to take responsibility for her actions. I respect Ms. Huffman for that, but have zero respect for Lori Loughlin and her husband!

  6. MrsCleaver says

    Felicity Huffman & Laurie Loughlin.
    Felicity might salvage what’s left of her career with her “owning up” to what happened.
    Laurie keeps digging herself in deeper & the more we see her deny, deny, deny makes us like her less. To think she did all this for her two bratty, ungrateful (“Just here for the parties”) daughters.

  7. melzbelz says

    Huffman and Loughlin

    Do I feel sorry for her? Yeah I kinda do. The rich have been buying their way since the beginning of time. If Lori is guilty so is 50 cent. Does she deserve jail time? Hell no. Jail is for dangerous criminals. Putting Lori in jail will only further burden an overwhelmed system.

    I don’t believe in making examples out of people. Punishment should ALWAYS fit the crime and never be a political statement. Give her a big fat fine we can use to benefit schools.

  10. charlene2345 says

    Felicity Huffman, Lori Loughlin

    Loughlin & husband keep digging themselves deeper graves. They should have pled guilty a year ago like Huffman- she did far less than they did and still served time. What do they think is going to happen to them??? The judge is going to throw the book at them, and I can’t say I feel sorry for them. Their ego won’t let them take responsibility.

  11. tippi1971 says

    This has to be Lori Laughlin. She has taken zero responsibility for her actions and has played the victim. Felicity Huff accepted her punishment, did her time and moved on with her life. If only Lori didn’t feel so entitled maybe she could be moving on with her life now too.

  13. kvetro60 says

    1) Felicity Huffman. She was an idiot but at least she owned up to her stupidity and took her lumps.
    2) Lori Laughlin – I hope she does serious time. What a pompous ass.

  14. MaryQuiteContrary says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Laughlin

    I don’t feel sorry for her. She committed a criminal act and now is making things worse. She’s an example of one of the worst kinds of privilege and a horrible parent. No wonder those girls turned out the way they did.

  15. ILUVCA4evr says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin

    While I do think she knowingly bought her daughters a place in college, I do think the Feds are trying to make an example of her. I also think that the Feds have withheld important evidence and that may be their undoing. I don’t think she’ll do any ‘hard’ stretch of time. What she and her husband did has been done many times over by many others. Its because of their celebrity that this is being dragged out.

  17. letinstar says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin

    I don’t feel an ounce bit of sorrow for Lori. Hope her entitled self gets to spend time in the clink. (and her husband too)

  18. zappy2050 says

    I should add that if I was Lori Loughlin, I would have my lawyers approach the prosecution team and broker a deal where my husband’s and her sentence coul be staggered – at this point they will each get a year + fines. She would go to jail first – get out – then the husband would go or vice versa.

    As to her daughters, let them genuinely apply to a college and get in – on their own. If college is where they want to go. There are so many colleges and you can do well at any college.

  19. barararain says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2: Lori Mclaughlin
    I don’t really feel sorry for her. She should have faced the consequences from the beginning, like Felicity did. She should just take her punishment and move on.

  20. ADM1780 says

    Felicity Huffman

    Aunt Becky

    No, I don’t feel bad for her at all. She should go to jail.

  21. clayco says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2: Laurie Loughlin
    Not feeling sorry for Laurie or her husband. I think she’ll get time.

  23. laura1083 says

    Felicity Huffman

    Lori Loughlin

    Don’t feel sorry for her in the slightest! She needs to be punished, it’s inevitable now.

  24. grumpy says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin

    Don’t feel sorry for her at all she could have taken the Huffman approach and would have all been done

  25. dinamarieburnett says

    Hoffman did her time…Lori Laughlin made a huge mistake
    not pleading guilty. She thought she was above the law.

  26. Jayzzzzzz says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman – IMHO she did the right thing & is now done. She’ll work again.

    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin & her husband spending their Target money. Every position they take, prosecutors beautifully counter. I have zero, zilch, no sympathy for them whatsoever. Aunt Becky won’t work again.

    Are you starting to feel sorry for Actress 2? Oh lordie no. They chose this path from the moment they decided their girls deserved college more than good students.

  27. bubbasbbq says

    This has to be Felicity Huffman for Actress 1 and increasingly ugly Lori “Aunt Becky” Loughlin for Actress 2

    If she received 10 years I would not feel sorry one bit for her. She still doesn’t care she did wrong, she just wants to save her sorry hide. I have no idea, I hope it is 10 years.

  28. yo1774 says

    Actress one in Felicity Huffman, actress two is Lori Loughlin.

    Felicity was smart, if you fail it’s better to assume the consecuences and she even tried to get some positive things of the experience.

    Loughlin on the other hand behaved like your typical celebrity and probably will get way more punishment than what she would receive if she acted like Felicity

  30. Melvin says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin

    [Optional] Are you starting to feel sorry for Actress 2?
    Not at all. Felicity admitted what she did, and paid her fines and did her time.
    Lori Loughlin, has cost the government / prosecution time and money with her denials and defense.
    Time and money that could be better spent.

    What do you think should/will happen to her?
    Hopefully she is fined what the prosecution spent and gets a pretty stiff prison sentence.

  31. sweetbutsaucy says

    Of course Felicty Huffman and Lori Laughlin. In no way do I feel sorry for her. There is always a possibility that when rich people do this, some student qualified misses their chance in life.

  33. blubelle says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: Lori Laughlin … she should pay a huge fine and do some time.

  34. angel55 says

    1. Felicity Huffman
    2. Lori Loughlin
    She has shown zero remorse, and I absolutely do not feel sorry for any of these people. Obviously they have more money than brains…let the chips fall where they may!

  35. BDBoop says

    Felicity Huffman v Lori Loughlin. She needs jail. And even at that, I don’t know that she will ever own her own.

  36. aaaRed45 says

    Felicity Huffman

    Lori Loughlin

    Don’t feel a bit sorry for her. Total bribe to USC, fake pics of her daughters “doing crew”
    Such major hubris & no shame or admission of guilt

  37. parkland45 says

    Felicity and Lori. Lori needs to do some jail time… much more time than Felicity. Don’t feel sorry for Lori or anyone else involved in this illegal activity

  38. sunshine702 says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Laughlin

    No I don’t. I think she should do some real time.

  40. zappy2050 says

    Felicity Huffman who handled it well – admitted what she did – took her punishment – served her time and moved on with her life – I even think her daughter was eventually admitted to Fordham (might be wrong) where her original SAT scores would have gotten her in anyway.

    Then there is Lori Loughlin who refuses to do the right thing. I don’t get it. Maybe I am missing something. She is going to get a year in jail + hefty fines.

  45. taupeantlers says

    1: Felicity Huffman, did the smart thing
    2: Lori Loughlin, definitely going to jail for at least 6 months or a year

  46. michelex23 says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin
    No. They both should’ve been/should be in jail longer.

  47. badgerette85 says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin.
    Op- LOL…absolutely not. She dug her own grave. She should serve the time and hopefully it’s not just community service.

  48. Summerborn says

    Lori Laughlin

    I don’t feel at all sorry for her — she is rich, feels entitled, doesn’t see what she did wrong, and should go to prison for a good long time. At least a couple of years.

  52. SilverLining says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin

    I used to like LL but to me she’s rightfully paying for her hubris. If she understood what she did caused other students damage instead of acting as a victim then maybe I would have some sympathy. She probably thinks that there are many others who do much worse things. We all can say that when we do wrong but a principled person – as I think everyone should strive to be, esp. a parent – would always acknowledge their own accountability regardless of that.

  55. haley1020 says

    felicity huffman and lori loughlin
    i hope lori and her stupid husband both have fun in prison

  56. montebell says

    Don’t feel sorry for the cheaters. She’s hoping this will all go away, because she and hubby are innocent!

  57. Aurora says

    Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin. No, I still don’t feel sorry for her. She is going to get the book thrown at her.

  60. Monysmom says

    1 – Felicity Huffman

    2- Lori Loughlin. Not sorry for her one little bit. In fact, I think her daughters should be indicted too, they knew what they were doing as they posed for fake “crew team” shots

  61. bertwheeler says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Laughlin
    Hell, no. She’ll probably get some prison time (not much) and a jumbo fine.

  62. ILikeSleep21 says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin
    Do I feel sorry for her? No She’s an entitled b*. Lol

  64. Palermo says

    Lori Loughlin, and don’t feel a bit sorry for her. I think the daughters should go to jail too

  66. High Steppa says

    Felicity H (Smart) and Lori L (Dumb). She’s in deep and she and her husband will serve jail time. No sympathy here.

  70. carriebradshaw says

    1-Felicity Huffman

    2- Lori Loughlin

    Optional- no, I’m not sorry for her. And she probably will end i jail, for way longer than FH did. Plea bargains and deals are for people who at last admit they dud wrong. And she will spend big chunk of her fortune on lawyers.

  71. jennb529 says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2: Lori Laughlin

    Do not feel sorry for her at all! She should spend a year in prison. An ENTIRE year.

  72. hazura jane says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin.

    Aunt Becky is right to be fudging her Hanky Pankys. The wheels of justice grind slowly, but exceedingly fine. She, her husband and possibly her daughters are in deep.

  73. Apumpkin says

    Easy…..
    Actress #1: Felicity Huffman (remorseful)
    Actress # 2: Lori Laughlin (so smug!)

  74. Whisper says

    Actress 1 : Felicity Hoffman
    Actress 2 : Lori Loughlin.
    Hard to feel sorry for her.
    She should have done what FH did.
    She’ll suffer a worse penalty for racking up offenses.

  76. mrw222 says

    Actress 1 : Felicity Huffman (played it smart)
    Actress 2: Lori Laughlin (what an entitled idiot). I’m not even a lawyer and I knew this was dumb as hell.

  77. ChattyCathie says

    Actress 1:
    Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2: Lori Loughlin
    I have no sympathy for LL

    Throw the book at her

  79. Sleepyandconfused says

    Felicity Huffman
    Loughlin

    No I don’t feel sorry for her. She hasn’t learned from her mistake

  81. elphie says

    Felicity Huffman immediately owned up to her error in judgement and took her punishment…. Aunt Becky on the other hand has always said she did nothing wrong… really you had your kids pose on rowing machines??? I seriously want her and that sleazy husband to do some time

  82. mommykakes says

    Felicity Huffman

    Lori Loughlin

    I felt sorry for her at first, but after seeing how easy Felicity got off I think Lori should have just fessed up and paid her dues.

  83. prinny says

    Felicity Huffman and kudos to her for just taking her lumps and getting on with things. The public will forgive her.
    Aunt Becky – throw the book at her. That whole family needs to be humbled and sounds like that is happening at least with her. I wish they could all be imprisoned for a good long time as those daughters just seem to be horrible little things.

  84. siriuscat says

    Actress 1: felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: lori loughlin

    [Optional] Are you starting to feel sorry for Actress 2? nope
    What do you think should/will happen to her? jail for as long as possible so she learns her spiritual lesson

  85. PieLies says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin
    Optional: No. She’s been snotty thru this whole process. Whatever she gets, she deserves as they paid a lot more $$ than Huffman.

  86. Theaterfan says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin

    I feel no sympathy for Loughlin. Throw the book at her. At least, Huffman did her time and what she did was not nearly as bad as Loughlin.

  87. Gerseychick says

    Felicity Huffman….
    Lori Loughlin…Smug, and her one daughter is very Smug….

  88. truth_sayer says

    Actress 1: Felicity Huffman

    Actress 2: Lori Laughlin

    Opinion: Nope. She’s in a pit of her own making.

  93. Riley831 says

    1 – Felicity Huffman
    2- Lori Loughlin

    I do feel sorry for her because she is MSM target of the the good girl caught doing something bad. Everyone is guilty – colleges for accepting these “bribes” and all the wealthy people buying their kids admissions. Why isn’t the MSM telling how big and broad this problem really is? Sending her to jail for long term isn’t going to fix the problem. Consequences should be same for all.

  94. ProfessorPep11 says

    Actress 1 – Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2 – Lori Loughlin
    I don’t feel the least bit sorry for Lori. I hope the judge throws the book at her.

  96. itsjustanothergirl says

    1: Felicity Huffman
    2: Lori Loughlin

    I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She did the crime, she can do the time.

  98. VegasMike says

    The College Cheating Scandal
    1) Felicity Huffman
    2) Lori Laughlin

    I hope she goes down hard.

  99. MinnieMe says

    Felicity Huffman
    Lori Loughlin
    Not in the least. She made her bed and now won’t sleep in it.

  101. JohnCarson says

    Actress 1 – Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2 – Lori Loughlin

    As a parent with kids who went through the stress of applying for college, I have no sympathy for those who cheated that process. They should be punished. However, Felicity handled it with appropriate contrition and I accept her admission of a mistake. Loughlin is the epitome of an entitled person who doesn’t believe the rules should apply to her so she should be locked up. She should admit her mistake now and accept her…

  104. Bizkit says

    Mrs Macy, took her lumps.
    Lori Laughlin……..her sense of entitlement will be her undoing.

  105. beachchick218 says

    Felicity and Lori.

    She is one of those elitest who feels like she is above all others. A stint in the Big House is just what she needs. A nice long stay.

  106. CallmeCrazy says

    1: Felicity Huffman
    2: Lori Loughlin
    No pity for Lori. She dd a crap thing and refused to take responsibility for it. Suck it up buttercup. You want to do something good for your kids? Lead by example.

  107. Suzy Kew says

    Actress 1 Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2 Lori Loughlan I do not feel one inch of sorrow for Aunt Becky . She illegally bought her daughter a college spot while her spoiled brat of a daughter bragged online that she “ didn’t even like school” I’d love to see her get much more jail time than Huffman did and I really hope this is the end of Laughlin’s “career “.

  108. andilou says

    Felicity Huffman

    Lori Laughlin

    Just send her to jail. Let her have a dose of reality!

  113. omgimbackagain says

    1. Felicity Huffman

    2. Lori Laughlin

    No I don’t feel sorry for her. She is incapable of remorse or humility. I believe she really doesn’t see that what she did was wrong.

  116. bhakti says

    Actress 1 Felicity Huffman
    Actress 2 Lori Laughlin

    I sincerely hope she gets the book thrown at her and she gets a lot of time.

    Love all the desperate housewives and full house clues 🤗

  119. hannahhkate says

    I absolutely do not feel sorry for Lori Laughlin. Why would anyone? Not only did she use her wealth to try and buy her daughter a future she hadn’t earned, but then Lori defiantly tried to dodge consequences and culpability when she was caught.