Lori Loughlin called time on her marriage to Mossimo Giannulli after finding “incriminating” texts and emails on his phone, a friend of the “Full House” star alleged to Page Six.
“Truly, the tipping point came when Lori found a bunch of text messages,” the friend claimed.
The couple served prison time after getting caught up in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal. Both admitted to paying $500,000 to a fixer to help their daughters — Olivia Jade, now 26, and Isabella Giannulli, 27 — gain admission to the University of Southern California by falsely portraying them as rowing recruits.
“Mossimo had used Lori for years,” the friend claimed. “She was hoping maybe he would change when he got out of prison, but he got worse.”
Now, the 61-year-old actress “wants to have nothing to do with” her husband of 28 years, the friend said. “She wants to get her life back.”
Fashion designer Giannulli, 62, was seen with stylist Hannah Harrison at his G/FORE Supply store in Beverly Hills, Calif., just hours after his split was announced. But Harrison said it was “bad timing” and insisted they had merely met up to go shopping.
Loughlin and Giannulli’s daughters are “completely” in their mom’s corner, said the friend, and Loughlin has also been supported by friends including James Tupper, with whom she starred in the movies “Fall Into Winter” and “Blessings of Christmas” on Great American Family.
The actress is currently living in the family’s home in Hidden Hills, Calif. we’re told. It was put on the market for $16.5 million in February and is now listed at $14.95 million.
Giannulli has been spending time between Orange County and the family’s house in Idaho, we are told.
“Every day, we’re met with different obstacles,” Loughlin told a First for Women Magazine cover story last year. “But, for me, it’s like that song says, ‘I get knocked down, but I get up again.’”
