Image : Getty It’s only a matter of time before noted vlogger and University of Southern California freshman Olivia Jade, whose mother Lori Loughlin allegedly bribed the school with $500,000 to admit her daughter, releases some kind of YouTube apology or tearful explainer about what’s going on. Until then, there’s TMZ—and the gossip site reports that, when the news about the alleged college admissions scam broke, Jade was enjoying spring break in the Bahamas, and spent the night on a billionaire’s yacht. Advertisement The yacht in question belongs to Rick Caruso; Jade is friends with his daughter, Gianna. Crucially, TMZ adds, Jade is “off the boat now.” Caruso confirmed that, while Jade and his daughter were on spring break together, Jade “decided it would be in her best interests to return home” when the news involving her mom broke. Crucially , Caruso is the Chairman of the USC Board of Trustees and called the allegations against the school’s employees “disturbing.” But TMZ notes that he won’t be in charge of deciding Jade’s fate —that would be the university president. Oh, what a tangled web these teen influencers and their celebrity parents weave! [TMZ] Ben Affleck knows nobody liked his back tattoo—which is maybe why he lied back in 2016 and said it was fake. It is decidedly not fake, and Affleck, today, can stand tall and proud even with his shirt off and say he loves his tattoo of a phoenix rising up his posterior. “Sentiment ran, you know, against,” Affleck told Ellen DeGeneres, of the moment when paparazzi first caught a pic of the tattoo while he was on the beach. But Affleck doesn’t care. “I love my tattoo, I’m very happy with it,” he says. “Yeah,” DeGeneres adds, “it’s your tattoo, it’s your back.” Truer words have never been spoken. Live and let men get as many tattoos of mythical creatures as they want. DeGeneres did point out though, and I can’t believe no one thought of this sooner, that the phoenix is “rising from your ass,” a detail I won’t soon forget. [People]<doc-sep>Olivia Jade was reportedly in the Bahamas on billionaire Rick Caruso's yacht when news about her mother's college admissions bribery scandal broke As Lori Loughlin returned to Los Angeles in the wake of her college admissions bribery scandal this week, her daughter Olivia Jade was reportedly on board a luxury yacht. On Tuesday evening, while Loughlin was taking an overnight flight from Canada to L.A. to surrender to authorities, 19-year-old Olivia Jade was on billionaire Rick Caruso’s yacht in the Bahamas, according to TMZ. Get push notifications with news, features and more. The outlet reports that Olivia Jade was on the glitzy vessel with Rick’s daughter, Gianna Caruso. “My daughter and a group of students left for spring break prior to the government’s announcement yesterday,” Rick, 60, told the outlet. “Once we became aware of the investigation, the young woman decided it would be in her best interests to return home.” The Women's Cancer Research Fund's An Unforgettable Evening Benefit Gala - Arrivals Ollvia Jade, Lori Loughlin | Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage According to L.A. Times, Rick is the owner of Invictus. The vessel is a 216-foot yacht that sleeps up to 12 guests in 9 rooms and is estimated to charter for approximately $616,500 per week (plus expenses) in the summer and $525,000 per week (plus expenses) in the winter, Yacht Charter Fleet’s website states. Loughlin’s rep had no comment. A rep for Rick Caruso did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. Rick, the CEO of Caruso — “one of the largest and most admired privately held real estate companies in the United States,” according to his biography — developed The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. His biography also states that he “was elected as Chair of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the University of Southern California,” where Olivia Jade currently attends university in L.A. Federal court records unsealed Tuesday in Boston name 50 people, including Loughlin, who have been allegedly indicted as part of the nationwide scheme, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. “Dozens of individuals involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits were arrested by federal agents in multiple states and charged in documents unsealed on March 12, 2019, in federal court in Boston,” the release said on Tuesday. Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, allegedly paid $500,000 to make it appear that their daughter had been a rower, the indictment states. (Olivia Jade is not currently listed on the USC women’s rowing roster. It’s unclear if she was aware of the alleged scheme, and she was not charged.) The couple, who were both indicted, “agreed to pay bribes totaling $500,000 in exchange for having their two daughters designated as recruits to the USC crew team — despite the fact that they did not participate in crew — thereby facilitating their admission to USC,” state the documents. A USC spokesperson said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE that the university is “going to conduct a case-by-case review for current students and graduates that may be connected to the scheme alleged by the government.” “We will make informed, appropriate decisions once those reviews have been completed,” the statement reads. “Some of these individuals may have been minors at the time of their application process.” PrettyLittleThing for Kourtney Kardashian Launch Party - Los Angeles Lori Loughlin and Olivia Jade | Credit: Splash News Online The Fuller House star faces felony charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. On Wednesday, Loughlin was arrested after taking an overnight flight from Canada, where she had reportedly been filming. (Giannulli appeared in federal court on Tuesday and was released after posting a $1 million bond.) Also on Wednesday, the judge specified that the actress will be allowed to speak to her two daughters and husband about the charges, but to no one else connected with the case, reports Variety. Loughlin is permitted to travel to British Columbia, where she has filming projects in Vancouver, but must surrender her passport in December, according to the O.C. Register. She will also face charges in Boston Federal Court on March 29, according to Variety.<doc-sep>"My daughter and a group of students left for spring break prior to the government's announcement yesterday," Caruso told TMZ. "Once we became aware of the investigation, the young woman decided it would be in her best interests to return home." The luxury yacht according to various yacht-focused websites , it worth roughly $100 million. A steep investment for literally almost anyone, but not so when you consider that Caruso is the real estate tycoon who developed the popular Los Angeles retail center, The Grove. The 215-foot "Invictus" yacht can sleep up to 12 guests while housing a staff of 19 crew members. It features a hot tub, an elevator, and a gym. It also was the subject of scrutiny when Caruso hosted its "christening" party in a Newport Harbor, inhibiting other smaller boats from docking. Forbes estimates that Caruso is worth $4 billion, as of March 2019.<doc-sep>When news of the national college cheating scandal was unfolding Tuesday, 19-year-old USC student Olivia Jade Giannulli was reportedly in the Bahamas on the yacht of billionaire Rick Caruso, the chairman of USC's Board of Trustees, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Olivia's parents, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, have been charged with paying $500,000 in bribes to get Olivia and her sister accepted as recruits for the rowing team at the University of Southern California, even though neither took part in the sport. The Hollywood Reporter found Olivia was on a spring break trip with Caruso's daughter Gianna "Gigi" Caruso and returned to Los Angeles Wednesday. "My daughter and a group of students left for spring break prior to the government's announcement yesterday. Once we became aware of the investigation, the young woman decided it would be in her best interest to return home," Caruso, a real estate mogul, told TMZ. Lori Loughlin gained fame for her role as the wholesome "Aunt Becky" in the 1990s sitcom "Full House," and for the past few years has become the queen of the Hallmark channel with her holiday movies and the series "When Calls the Heart." Loughlin married Giannulli, her second husband, in 1997. Olivia Jade is a celebrity in her own right. She has a YouTube channel with nearly two million followers, and more than a million followers on Instagram. She often touts brands in paid ads on her accounts, and since last fall has incorporated her student life at USC. In one YouTube post, she talked about the difficulty of juggling her career with school, and said she didn't know how much she would actually attend. She also added that she was going to school for the partying, not academics: "I don't really care about school, as all you guys know." She later apologized. In an interview with the website TheBlast.com, she said she decided to go to college despite her fame because of her parents. "Mostly my parents really wanted me to go, because both of them didn't go to college," she said. "They didn't make me. My sister goes to the same school, and we're pretty much inseparable, so it was nice following in her footsteps a little bit." Loughlin went straight into acting after high school, appearing on the soap opera "The Edge of Night." She became a star on "Full House," a standout hit of ABC's family-friendly TGIF lineup in the early 1990s, and appeared on the recent Netflix reboot "Fuller House." She stars in the Hallmark series "When Calls My Heart" and is scheduled to appear in several new "Garage Sale Mysteries" movies and is a regular part of the channel's holiday movie slate. A judge said Wednesday Loughlin can be released after posting $1 million bond in the college bribery case. Federal authorities called have called the scam the biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department, with the parents accused of paying an estimated $25 million in bribes. At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents, many of them prominent in law, finance, fashion, the food and beverage industry and other fields, were charged. The Associated Press contributed to this report.<doc-sep>
Where was Lori Loughlin's daughter Olivia Jade Giannulli when news broke that her parents were indicted for allegedly paying $500,o00 to make it appear that she had been a rower to guarantee her admission to the University of Southern California? Apparently on a billionaire's yacht who also happens to be the chairman of USC's Board of Trustees, TMZ is reporting. TMZ found out that Olivia was on Rick Caruso's yacht in the Bahamas with the chairman's daughter Gianna and several friends for their spring break. Olivia and Gianna, per TMZ, have been friends for a while now and have posted photos of each other on their Instagrams. Rick confirmed the news to TMZ himself and told the outlet that Olivia Jade did return to California after the scandal became public. "My daughter and a group of students left for spring break prior to the government's announcement yesterday," he said. "Once we became aware of the investigation, the young woman decided it would be in her best interests to return home." Rick does not have control over whether or not Olivia Jade will get to remain a student at USC or any of the other students involved. The university president will make that decision, TMZ reports. USC officials told Buzzfeed that they're going to look at each student's case individually before deciding whether to revoke their admission to the university or let them remain there. They will conduct a "case-by-case review of current students and graduates that may be connected to the scheme alleged by the government." "We will make informed, appropriate decisions once those reviews have been completed," Leigh Hopper, a USC spokesperson, told the outlet. "Some of these individuals may have been minors at the time of their application process." Alyssa Bailey News and Strategy Editor Alyssa Bailey is the news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton).