American actress Lori Loughlin, sentenced this summer to two months in prison for having cheated and paid to guarantee her daughters' entry into a prestigious university, presented herself in a California prison on Friday, October 30 to begin serving her sentence. hardly, according to local media.
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The 56-year-old actress, who played "Aunt Becky" in "House Party," arrived in the morning at Federal Women's Prison in Dublin, near San Francisco.
It is the same establishment as the one that already hosted last October her colleague Felicity Huffman ("Desperate Housewives"), sentenced to two weeks in prison in the same scandal.
Lori Loughlin, whose career was brought to a halt by this affair, assured that she had learned the lessons of the "terrible decision" which led her, with her husband, to pay $ 500,000 to an intermediary to guarantee the admission of their two daughters at the University of Southern California (USC).
They had agreed with the mastermind of the operation, William Singer, that their daughters would be presented as good recruits for the college rowing team, although they did not play the sport. .
In addition to her prison sentence, the actress will have to pay a fine of 150,000 dollars and submit to two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service.
Lori Loughlin's husband, stylist Mossimo Giannulli, considered "the most active" in this cheating by investigators, was sentenced to 5 months in prison and a $ 250,000 fine.
