Four years after Felicity Huffman found herself embroiled in a college admissions scandal, the actress talked about the ordeal for the first time in a new interview. Huffman ultimately spent 11 days in jail and was sentenced to community service for her role in Operation Varsity Blues, in which she …
Read More »John Stamos Reveals First Conversation With Lori Loughlin as College Admissions Scandal Broke
John Stamos recalls his conversations with Lori Loughlin — over her allegedly tapped phone line — as the 2019 college admissions scandal broke in a new excerpt from the audiobook version of his new memoir, If You Would Have Told Me (out today, Oct. 24). Taking us all the way …
Read More »'Varsity Blues' Scandal Convictions of Two Wealthy Parents Overturned
Fraud convictions of former Wynn Resorts executive Gamal Aziz, aka Gamal Abdelaziz, and private equity executive John Wilson — charged for paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their kids into top universities — were thrown out on Wednesday by a U.S. federal appeals court, Reuters reports. The 1st …
Read More »Great American Family CEO Insists Lori Loughlin is Still 'America's Sweetheart' Despite 'Whatever Happened' (Doing Crime)
Great American Family, a television channel that’s not the Hallmark Channel, has big plans for white-collar criminal/actress Lori Loughlin, with network CEO Bill Abbott telling Variety: “She’s America’s sweetheart, regardless of whatever happened.” “Whatever happened” refers to, of course, the two months of prison Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli …
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