Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli have separated after nearly 28 years of marriage, Us Weekly can confirm.
“They are living apart now,” Loughlin’s rep told Us in a statement on Thursday, October 2, noting, “There are no legal proceedings underway.”
Loughlin and Giannulli share two daughters, Isabella Rose, 27, and Olivia Jade, 26. The estranged couple overcame the 2019 college admissions scandal and respective jail sentences before calling it quits this year.
The Full House alum and the fashion designer eloped in November 1997, just days before Thanksgiving.
Loughlin — who was previously married to Michael Burns from 1989 to 1996 — later revealed to Entertainment Tonight in February 2018 that she and Giannulli “talked about doing a wedding” but ultimately decided, “Let’s get up and let’s go do it.”
The pair welcomed their first child, daughter Bella, in September 1998. Loughlin and Giannulli expanded their family one year later with the birth of Olivia Jade. (Giannulli is also the father of son Gianni, 34, whom he shares with first wife Chris Giannulli.)
“He’s my guy, he’s my person,” Loughlin said of Mossimo in February 2018 after 20 years of marriage. She told Entertainment Tonight at the time that the key to their relationship was “communicating, it’s listening, it’s picking and choosing your battles. It’s being flexible, it’s all of that.”
Less than a year later, their marriage was tested when Loughlin and Mossimo were both arrested for their alleged involvement in the college admissions scandal. The pair were accused of falsifying their daughters’ participation on the crew team and paying $500,000 to get them into the University of Southern California.
Loughlin and her spouse pleaded not guilty to fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges in April 2019. As the couple awaited their fates, a source exclusively told Us Weekly the scandal was putting pressure on their relationship.
“Their daughter Bella is extremely concerned they’re going to get divorced,” an insider told Us in September 2019.
Loughlin and Mossimo changed their plea in May 2020, pleading guilty to charges of wire and mail fraud. Mossimo was sentenced to five months in prison and two years of supervised release with 250 hours of community service. He was released three weeks early in April 2021.
Loughlin, meanwhile, served two months at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. She was released in December 2020 and began serving her two years of supervised release and 100 hours of community service.
The couple was ordered to pay $400,000 in fines, which they completed in November 2020.
Prior to their separation, the pair listed their Hidden Hills mansion in California for $16.5 million. The 11,800-square-foot house was put on the market in February.
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