Lori Loughlin posted "Here's to things working out" on Monday — and filed for divorce on Tuesday
The Full House star came back to Instagram after seven years away and captioned her first video "Here's to things working out." That was Monday. On Tuesday came the divorce paperwork — and the details inside answer questions fans have been asking for a year.
The filing landed with TMZ on Tuesday morning: Lori Loughlin has formally filed to divorce Mossimo Giannulli, closing out a marriage that started in 1997 and spent its final year in a quiet, lawyered-up separation everyone knew about and nobody confirmed on the record.
The paperwork answers questions a year of speculation could not. Loughlin lists the separation date as August 31, 2025, cites irreconcilable differences, confirms the two signed a prenup before the wedding, and leaves spousal support "to be figured out later."
The marriage survived a federal indictment and two prison terms. According to the paperwork, it did not survive the year after.
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The marriage that outlived the scandal — barely
For most of the public, this couple exists in one context: Operation Varsity Blues. In 2019, both were charged with paying $500,000 to get daughters Olivia Jade and Bella into USC as fake rowing recruits; both pleaded guilty in 2020, and Loughlin served two months in prison to Giannulli's five. The marriage held through all of it — through her firing from Fuller House and Hallmark, through his sentence, through the slow rebuild. In a detail E! News surfaced, they bought their Hidden Hills mansion in August 2020 — the same month they were both sentenced.
The last twelve months read differently:
- August 31, 2025 — the separation date Loughlin put in the filing.
- October 2025 — her rep confirms the two are "living apart."
- Late 2025 — the Hidden Hills house sells for $12.65 million.
- Last week — Loughlin returns to Instagram, seven years after deleting her account at the height of the scandal.
- Monday — she posts a video captioned "Here's to things working out." The divorce filing followed within a day.
Who's saying what
Giannulli, through the friendly-exclusive circuit, has been all soft edges: he will "never not love her" and wants the divorce "resolved quietly." Reports from the same outlets describe Loughlin as "still extremely angry." The bluntest voice belongs to her longtime screen husband John Stamos, who skipped diplomacy entirely:
"I will never talk to him again." — Stamos, who has also called Giannulli a "terrible narcissist," picking his side of the divorce before it existed.
The money side should be short: the prenup reportedly keeps their fortunes largely separate — his built on the Mossimo clothing brand, hers on three decades of television — which is why the filing can afford to postpone the support conversation.
Aunt Becky spent seven years offline and came back captioning her return "Here's to things working out." Twenty-four hours later, the court file suggests she meant it literally — working out, just not together.
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