While Lori Loughlin is back home after being released from prison in December, her husband Mossimo Giannulli is having a hard time adjusting to life behind bars. Since a judge found that Giannulli played a bigger role in the college admission scandal than Loughlin, he is facing more severe consequences. He reported on his 5-month sentence in November, but two months later, the designer is already begging a judge to release him and allow him to finish his time at home, according to an emergency lawsuit filed this week.
Giannulli spent eight weeks in solitary confinement and his son, Gianni Giannulli, previously expressed concerns about his father’s mental health. In a private Instagram post shared by ABC News, Gianni revealed that his father was locked in solitary confinement and being held in an average security prison instead of the minimum security prison his family had promised during his sentence. In addition, Gianni stated that his father “only went out every 3 days for a few moments to bathe”.
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Page Six obtained the court documents submitted by Mossimo’s lawyers, which said: “Mr. Giannulli was immediately placed in solitary confinement in a small cell in the adjacent medium security penitentiary, 24 hours a day with just three short 20-minute breaks a week, where he stayed for 56 days before finally being transferred to the camp yesterday.
Quarantine after its arrival was expected due to the pandemic and was initially intended to be a precautionary method; however, after completing the COVID-19 quarantine required by the prison, Giannulli was never removed from his confinement – that is, until yesterday. Giannulli’s lawyers argued that Giannulli had tested negative for COVID-19 several times and his continued isolation was “much more extreme than what the court recommended”.
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The documents obtained by the publication continued to outline the plan proposed by Giannulli and his lawyers to be released from his prison term and finish his sentence at home. “He has a stable home environment – to which he will travel directly and immediately after release – with features that will allow him to be safely quarantined and remain at home for the rest of the sentence,” they wrote.
It is not known whether or not the court will grant Giannulli permission to return home, but our guess is that this is a fight that Giannulli will not give up.
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