Lori Loughlin files for DIVORCE from Mossimo Giannulli after 28-year marriage that saw them jailed for college admissions scandal

Lori Loughlin has filed for divorce from fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli after a marriage that lasted more than 28 years.

It emerged last October that Loughlin and Giannulli, who share daughters Olivia Jade, 26, and Isabella 'Bella' Rose, 27, had separated.

The onetime couple infamously served overlapping prison sentences for their role in the 'varsity blues' college admissions scandal, which involved their fraudulent means of getting their children into the University of Southern California (USC).

In her divorce filing, Loughlin listed their date of separation as August 31, 2025 and cited irreconcilable differences as grounds for the dissolution of their union.

An agreement for financial support will be negotiated at some point in future, Loughlin explained in legal documents obtained by the Daily Mail.

The couple signed a prenuptial agreement on October 28, 1997, the month before they eloped, and flied an amendment to it on August 11, 2015.

Loughlin's attorneys are Kristina Royce - whose celebrity clientele has included Channing Tatum and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Jeff Garlin - and Sarah Luetto.

The Daily Mail has contacted Loughlin's representatives for comment.

In the initial aftermath of their separation, a source claimed Loughlin left Giannulli after unearthing a cache of 'incriminating' emails and texts on his phone.

'Truly, the tipping point came when Lori found a bunch of text messages,' a friend of the Full House actress sensationally alleged to Page Six. 

'Mossimo had used Lori for years,' the insider said. 'She was hoping maybe he would change when he got out of prison, but he got worse.'

News of the split broke hours after a distraught-looking Loughlin was seen sharing a comforting embrace with her friend and sometime co-star James Tupper, who used to be involved with the late Anne Heche, via TMZ.

Meanwhile, the day Giannulli's break with Loughlin went public, he was glimpsed out and about in Beverly Hills with 32-year-old stylist Hannah Harrison.

Harrison swung into action to clarify the nature of their relationship, insisting her equation with the fashion designer was strictly 'platonic,' via Us Weekly. 

'I feel like it was bad timing,' she said, maintaining she met him for work at a supply store for his brand G/FORE 'not knowing that his separation had been announced.' 

Giannulli and Loughlin eloped two days before Thanksgiving 1997, two years after she concluded her star-making run on the smash hit sitcom Full House.

They attracted a searing glare of notoriety as a couple during the college admissions scandal, which landed both of them behind bars.

In 2019, Loughlin and Giannulli were exposed as having bribed their daughters' way into USC, paying $500,000 to a fixer in order to falsely pass off Olivia and Bella as potential rowers on the university's team.

The day her parents were indicted, Olivia was holidaying on the yacht of the USC trustee board's billionaire chairman Rick Caruso, who later ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Los Angeles against the present incumbent Karen Bass.

She was apparently on the vessel with Caruso's daughter Gigi, who was Olivia's age and was also a freshman at USC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Olivia and Bella were both accepted into the university, but after the row over their admissions exploded, it was announced that they were no longer enrolled.

Shortly before the controversy, Olivia, who had become a successful YouTuber, posted a video breezily remarking that she did not 'really care about school' and was more eagerly anticipating social life at USC.

By last year, however, she was publicly professing to have been a 'straight-A student' who 'worked really hard' during her high school career.

Although Giannulli and Loughlin initially claimed to be innocent, he pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and honest services and mail fraud, while she pled guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

Loughlin spent two months in federal prison at CI Dublin in California before being released in December 2020, days before New Year's. 

Meanwhile, Giannulli had to spend five months in prison for his role in the bribery scheme and was ultimately released in early April 2021. 

After her release, Loughlin demonstrated a sense of humor about the imbroglio, parodying herself on a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in 2024 in which she attempts to regain membership of a golf club that had jettisoned her over the scandal.

'We called her manager up, who loved it, and who then talked to Lori, and she said: "I'm in, I'm totally game,"' the long-running sitcom's executive producer Jeff Schaffer divulged in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

'And she was. She was so great. Everything we threw at her, she was game to do. She makes the episode. I'm so glad she wanted to do it.'

Loughlin made a point of stressing her own magnanimity that year when she made a rare public comment on the aftermath of the 'varsity blues' fracas. 

'I try to be a forgiving person. I’m not one to hold onto stuff. Stuff happens to everyone. We’ve all been in positions to ask for forgiveness but to ask for it, you have to learn and know how to give forgiveness, too,' she told First for Women.

'My family wasn’t one to hold grudges. I didn’t grow up in a household where if you made a mistake, you weren’t forgiven,' Loughlin recalled. 'No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. So I was always told to let stuff go. And I think for your own health, you have to let things go because you can’t hang on to negativity. Life’s too short.'