Lori Loughlin gets tribute from daughter Bella Giannulli amid trial in college admissions scandal

Bella Giannulli posted a tribute to mother Lori Loughlin on International Women’s Day amid her parents’ pending trial for the college admissions scandal.

The 21-year-old daughter of Mossimo Giannulli took to her Instagram Story to post a throwback image of her now 55-year-old mother.

No doubt there is a special place in Bella’s heart for her mother as she captioned it: ‘to my woman today and everyday [heart emoji]’

Lori donned a green polka dot top and jeans as she sat on a wooden chair backwards in the snap seemingly taken in the Nineties.

Both Bella and younger sister Olivia Jade, 20, are back to their regular routines nearly a year after authorities announced her parents were charged in the college admissions case, according to a People report from last week. 

‘Olivia and Bella both have active lives,’ a source said. ‘They hang out with friends, go shopping and go out for lunch and dinner. It’s pretty typical lives for girls in their circle.’

The source noted that ‘right after the college scandal broke’ in March of 2019, ‘both girls were very low-key and avoided being photographed.

‘But since Olivia is again active on social media, their lives have basically gone back to normal.’

The source noted that the sisters ‘don’t avoid the paparazzi any more’ and ‘don’t seem to mind being photographed.’ 

Olivia Jade has definitely been living it up as of late as the YouTuber was pictured leaving the SHOREbar in Santa Monica on Thursday where stars such as Drake and Kendall and Kylie Jenner were partying at a Western theme birthday bash for Kylie’s former assistant Victoria Villarroel.

Loughlin, 55, and Mossimo, 56, have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit federal program bribery after they were accused of paying admissions official Rick Singer $500,000 to designate their daughters as recruits to the USC crew team, despite that neither of their girls ever rowed. 

The couple claims to have proof that the mastermind behind the sprawling scheme, Rick Singer, was told by FBI agents to lie about whether parents knew they were paying bribes, rather than legitimate donations.

In a February 26 motion to postpone Loughlin and Giannulli’s upcoming trial date, attorney Sean Berkowitz wrote that prosecutors had handed over notes from Singer’s iPhone describing the alleged FBI coercion.

‘Singer’s notes indicate that FBI agents yelled at him and instructed him to lie by saying that he told his clients who participated in the alleged “side door” scheme that their payments were bribes, rather than legitimate donations that went to the schools,’ Berkowitz wrote.

Although the judge denied the request to postpone and set a court date for October 5, Loughlin and Giannulli remain confident that the evidence will help get them off.