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ere's Olivia Jade Giannulli's fake athletic profile listing her as a champion coxswain

#LoriLoughlin #MossimoGiannulli #Conspiracy #USC  The fake athletic profile that portrayed Olivia Jade Giannulli as a gold medal-winning crew coxswain and helped her gain admission to USC was included in a legal filing by prosecutors Friday in the college admissions scam. The profile lists Giannulli's skill set as "awareness, organization, direction and steering" and says that "she is highly talented and has been successful in both men's and women's boats." The profile also says she won two gold medals in the San Diego Crew Classic in 2014 and 2016, and it says she participated in Boston's Head of the Charles regatta in 2016 and 2017. But those accolades are false, and she did not actually participate in crew competitively, prosecutors have said. They say that the athletic profile was created by scam mastermind Rick Singer and his associates as part of a scheme to get Giannulli into USC as a fake athletic recruit, a strategy that he called th...

Dr. Dre deletes Instagram post about daughter's acceptance to USC: "No jail time!"

#DrDre #USC #CollegeAdmissions #College  Dr. Dre got some backlash over an Instagram post about his daughter's acceptance into the University of Southern California this weekend. He wanted to make sure people knew she got in on her own merits and he's not embroiled in the recent admissions scandal. But the music mogul neglected to mention he's donated millions to the school. Dr. Dre posted a photo of himself with his daughter, Truly Young, holding her USC acceptance letter. "My daughter got accepted into USC all on her own. No jail time!" the caption read. The message was a jab at celebrity parents like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, who face criminal charges in a massive college admissions scam . Loughlin and her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, are accused of paying $500,000 as part of a bribery plot to help their daughters gain admittance to USC. The couple is among dozens of parents, test administrators and college coaches who were involved in ...