Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s separation is starting to look like a divorce is imminent. Earlier this month, it came out that they were “taking a break” and living apart. Now they've found a buyer for their home, with words like “prenup” making headlines.
PEOPLE confirmed on October 2 that they’re no longer living together after nearly 30 years of marriage. Lori’s rep kept things vague, saying they’re “living apart” and there are “no legal proceedings right now.”
While nothing is official yet, TMZ reported that their Hidden Hills home, the one they bought post-college admissions scandal in 2020, just went under contract after being listed for $14,950,000.
The place is huge: 6 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, almost 12,000 square feet, a gym, home theater, chef’s kitchen, wine cellar, pool, spa, and a bocce ball court. They originally paid $9.5 million, listed it earlier this year for $16.5M, then dropped the price and still made a profit.
Lori was reportedly still living in the home while Mossimo has been staying in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Like most high-profile divorces, finances are a big issue, and after three decades, things might not end the way Lori hopes. TMZ reported there’s a prenup from when they got married back in 1997 that keeps everything separate.
Something Mossimo apparently insisted on because he was worth over $100 million at the time. If it were never changed, Lori might walk away with almost nothing if this turns into a divorce.
What went wrong?
An insider told PEOPLE the last few years have "put a strain on their marriage." The “Full House” alum and her fashion-designer husband infamously made headlines in 2019 with the college admissions scandal that shook Hollywood.
Both Loughlin and Giannulli struck plea deals, confessing to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud. Loughlin served two months in prison, and Giannulli served five. A source told PEOPLE things have “never been the same" after they "weathered the college admission fallout and the prison sentences together.”
According to TMZ insiders, Lori is really upset about how things ended up, especially because she thought Mossimo would change after prison, and he didn’t.
Last week, one of her friends told Page Six the “tipping point” was when Lori allegedly found “incriminating” texts and emails on his phone.
“Mossimo had used Lori for years,” the friend continued. They said Lori wants to have “nothing to do with him” and “wants to get her life back.”
Like most failed love stories, it started pretty sweet. They met in the mid-’90s, eloped two days before Thanksgiving at sunrise, told everyone over dinner, and then had Isabella and Olivia Jade in quick succession.
For now, sources say Lori is spending a lot of time with her daughters and trying to process everything. Sources told Page Six the girls are in their mom’s corner.
John Stamos enters the chat
Another person in her corner? John Stamos. Her former co-star called him a “terrible narcissist” and vowed never to talk to him again while talking to Josh Peck and Ben Soffer on their Good Guys podcast.
"Whatever he did to her, it busted her up to the core. And she put up with a lot over the years for this guy," he said. "I know a lot, and I was by her side through a lot of it."
Stamos said he knows she’s “just devastated," explaining, “for a girl who has lived her life really well, a good person, a good mother, a good wife—I know all this for a fact—to be thrown into, now, this separation exploding, blowing up her family this way. And I just hate to see her go through this."