Mossimo Giannulli concocted a ruse at the University of Southern California
long before the college admissions scandal, according to a 2016 interview he
gave to The Hundreds fashion blog.
The fashion mogul, who’s been accused with wife Lori Loughlin of paying $
500,000 so their daughters could be admitted to USC by posing as crew
athletes, apparently once scammed his parents out of tuition money while
pretending to be enrolled at the same school back in the 1980s.
He falsified report cards and tuition bills so his father would hand over
the money, according to The Hundreds, and then used the capital to fund an
early T-shirt venture.
“SC was expensive, so that was how I was starting my company,” Giannuli
told the blog. “I used all that cash.”
Giannulli lived at a fraternity, The Hundreds wrote, and CNN noted that he
took some classes in 1984 in a non-degree program open to anyone with no
formal admissions requirements and was a non-matriculating student.