Talk:Mossimo Giannulli

Discussion about making this an article about Mossimo Giannuli rather than redirect
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 * Talk:Mossimo

--David Tornheim (talk) 03:25, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Info Box
I think the infobox overemphasizes the scandal while under-emphasizing the clothing company. I think we should give about equal weight to both company and scandal, based on the WP:RS I see in the article now. I have not reviewed all the potential WP:RS to see the proportion each is covered. Depending on what else is out there might be a good argument for a different proportion for the infobox. --David Tornheim (talk) 04:23, 20 April 2019 (UTC)


 * David's point is well made. I'll look into incorporating some of the data from the clothing company info box (see the Mossimo Clothing Company wikipedia page) and in particular the success of this entity.  One other point, however, that came out via Olivia Jade Giannulli and also from Mossimo was that he took money that was given to him by his parents for tuition to attend USC and used that money to fund the clothing company - in other words, the scandal started in the 1980s when Mossimo deceived his parents re: his attendance at USC going, where it was reported that he went so far as to make up papers and other docs to ensure his parents kept giving him money and believed he was paying his tuition with those funds.  I'll look into the best sources for that since it came from the daughter directly. - Anon82  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:540:C400:2CA6:681B:EC18:D196:F6CC (talk) 00:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

University
So... DID he attend university, and his daughter here- https://pagesix.com/2019/03/15/lori-loughlins-daughter-olivia-jade-said-father-faked-his-way-through-college/ - is talking through her hat, or was that also a scam/ fake? It wouldn't be surprising if the daughter had the wrong end of the stick/ it was a "family story" or whatever; you'd think making a claim about your education that makes it into your Wikipedia article would be something that would have to stand up to scrutiny, but one never knows... you'd think it'd be hard to convincingly fake high school transcripts/ sporting achievements, too, but hey.
 * This is also reported by CNN here- https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/17/us/mossimo-giannulli-usc-college-admissions-scandal/index.html - so maybe worth mentioning in the article, particularly as it establishes something of a pattern of behaviour. See also https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/did-lori-loughlins-husband-mossimo-giannulli-also-fake-his-way-through-college.html/, although maybe not the best quality of source; CNN surely is though.