If you’ve seen Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal, Netflix’s new documentary on the college admissions scandal, you may be wondering — just how much did Olivia Jade Giannulli know about the fraudulent manner in which she was admitted to the University of Southern California?
That question isn’t specifically addressed in the Netflix doc, and Olivia Jade herself hasn’t been extremely forthcoming either — but there is some evidence that suggests how much she knew about the scandal before it became a national news story.
In case you need a refresher, Olivia Jade’s parents are Lori Loughlin, aka Aunt Becky from Full House, and Mossimo Giannulli, the fashion designer. In May 2020, they plead guilty to paying the scandal’s ring leader, Rick Singer, $500,000 to fraudulently get Olivia Jade and her sister Isabella Rose admission into USC as recruits on the school’s rowing team, according to NBC News.
Loughlin served two months in prison last year and was released in December. Giannulli was sentenced to five months and is set to be released from prison on April 17.
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Olivia Jade spoke out publically on the scandal for the first time during an appearance on Red Table Talk with Willow Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and, her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, on Dec. 8.
“Although I’ve had a strong relationship with my mom and my dad my whole life, I was definitely confused when this all came out and I went and confronted them about everything,” she said in the interview. “They didn’t really have much to say except, ‘I’m so sorry, I really messed up trying to give the best to you and your sister.'”
She also said that after she found out about her parent’s indictment in the scandal over spring break in March 2019, she never returned to USC.
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