After 28 years of marriage, the Full House star and the fashion designer agree the marriage is over — the Lori Loughlin divorce paperwork is where they part ways.
By The Insider — CelebnMusic247
Aunt Becky’s divorce has officially entered its paperwork era, and the most interesting character in this chapter might be a document signed in 1997. Per Page Six, Mossimo Giannulli, 63, filed his response to Lori Loughlin‘s divorce petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, confirming that he, too, wants to end the marriage — and citing the same reason she did: “irreconcilable differences.”
So far, so aligned. After 28 years of marriage, nobody here is arguing about whether the marriage is over. Where the filings start to diverge, per Page Six, is money — specifically, the prenuptial agreement the couple signed one month before their November 1997 wedding and amended in August 2015.
Lori Loughlin Divorce: The Prenup Dispute
When Loughlin, 62, submitted her petition early last month, she asked, per Page Six, that properties, assets and debts be split according to that prenup. She also asked for spousal support to be determined at a later date, and for each party to be responsible for their own attorneys’ fees and costs. It was, in filing terms, a tidy, prenup-first approach: follow the agreement we already have.
Giannulli’s response took a different route. Per Page Six, he did not mention a prenup in his filing at all. Instead, he asked the court to “determine whether spousal support shall be payable to either party upon a request of either party” and to decide “if one party should make a contribution to the other party’s fees.” That leaves the support question — in either direction — and the fee question open for the court, rather than settled by the agreement Loughlin pointed to. Page Six framed it as a surprising spousal support request, and it is easy to see why: the response sidesteps the document at the center of her petition.
There is one more small blank space doing a lot of work. Per Page Six, Giannulli left the “date of separation” field blank, while Loughlin listed August 31, 2025. Separation dates can matter in divorce proceedings, so a blank on one side and a specific date on the other is the kind of detail lawyers, not headlines, will ultimately sort out.
Separation, Then the Headlines
The split itself has been public for a year. Last October, Page Six confirmed the pair had separated, with a representative for Loughlin saying, “Lori and Mossimo are living apart now. There are no legal proceedings underway.” Well, there are now. A source close to Loughlin told Page Six later that month that she wanted “nothing to do with” her longtime partner, and another source told Us Weekly, per Page Six, that the split was not a shock to those close to them.
For many readers, this marriage will always carry a second headline. The couple made national news in 2019 over the college admissions scandal, and, per Page Six, pleaded guilty the following May to paying a fixer $500,000 to get their daughters — Isabella Rose Giannulli, now 28, and Olivia Jade Giannulli, now 27 — into the University of Southern California as crew recruits despite not being rowers. Loughlin served two months in federal prison and was released in December 2020, while Giannulli completed a five-month sentence the following April, per Page Six. A source told Us Weekly this past January, per Page Six, that the scandal was a turning point and the marriage was “never the same” afterward.
None of that is being relitigated here — what is on the table is narrower: whether the prenup governs the split, whether support flows to either side, and who pays which legal bills. Those answers now sit with a Los Angeles judge.
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Sources: Page Six
