Lori Loughlin has formally filed to end her marriage to fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli after nearly three decades together, turning a separation that had already become public into a legal divorce case.
The “Full House” actor cited irreconcilable differences in the filing. Loughlin and Giannulli married in 1997, and reporting on the court documents says the couple has a prenuptial agreement that was later amended in 2015. They share two daughters, Isabella Rose and Olivia Jade.
The divorce closes one of Hollywood’s longer marriages after years in which the couple’s private life became inseparable from a national scandal. Loughlin and Giannulli were among the most recognizable parents charged in the U.S. college admissions case that exposed illegal efforts by wealthy families to secure places for their children at selective universities.
Prosecutors accused the couple of paying $500,000 to have their daughters presented as crew recruits to the University of Southern California even though neither daughter was a competitive rower. After initially fighting the charges, both later pleaded guilty. Loughlin served a two-month prison sentence, while Giannulli served five months.
That episode did not immediately end the marriage. The couple remained together through the prosecutions, sentencing and the difficult period that followed, when Loughlin’s television career was disrupted and both became shorthand in public debates about privilege and access to elite education.
The current filing shows that legal survival of one crisis did not mean the relationship ultimately survived. People reports that Loughlin listed the couple’s separation date as August 25, 2025, meaning the formal divorce comes more than a year after they began living apart.
For Loughlin, the timing also arrives during a professional rebuilding period. She has gradually returned to television work and social media after years in which the admissions scandal overshadowed almost every public appearance. The divorce therefore lands at the intersection of two transitions: the end of a long marriage and an attempt to establish a new chapter in a career that once seemed permanently damaged.
Celebrity divorces often become tabloid stories about money and blame, but the documents in this case give the outline without resolving the emotional history. The public record establishes the marriage, the separation, the prenup and the filing. It also places the divorce after a scandal that put extraordinary pressure on the family. What it cannot show is exactly when or why the relationship itself became impossible to continue.
The next steps will move through the California court system, where the prenuptial agreement is likely to shape how the couple divides assets. For Loughlin, the broader public story will continue at the same time: a former sitcom fixture trying to separate her future from both a marriage that began in 1997 and the scandal that came to define its final years.