Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli Separate After Nearly 28 Years of Marriage (Exclusive)

Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli are going their separate ways.

PEOPLE confirms the couple — who are parents to Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose Giannulli — have separated after nearly 28 years of marriage.

“They are living apart and taking a break from their marriage. There are no legal proceedings at this time,” according to Loughlin’s representative Elizabeth Much.

The split comes after the Full House alum and her estranged husband listed their 11,800-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills for $16.5 million in February.

The couple purchased the home in August 2020 for $9.5 million, PEOPLE previously confirmed, after they were embroiled in a high-profile college admissions scandal involving their daughters in 2019.

In May 2020, Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli pleaded guilty to wire and mail fraud after they were accused of paying $500,000 for their daughters Olivia Jade Giannulli and Isabella Rose Giannulli‘s admission into the University of Southern California. The two were falsely designated as recruits to the university’s crew team even though neither ever participated in the sport.

Loughlin was eventually sentenced to two months in federal prison while her husband received a five-month sentence in August of the same year. The actress almost completed her sentence before she was released from prison in December 2020.

Following the scandal, the actress slowly made her return to television, beginning with reprising her role as Abigail Stanton in When Hope Calls: A Country Christmas — a spinoff to When Calls the Heart — in December 2021 on Great American Family.

She also starred opposite James Tupper in the network’s January 2023 TV film Fall Into Winter and appeared with Tupper and Jesse Hutch in A Christmas Blessing the following November.

More recently, Loughlin made an appearance on Curb Your Enthusiasm, on which she played a heightened version of herself as she poked fun at her involvement in the college admissions scheme. She also recently had roles on Blue Bloods and On Call.

In April 2024, the actress gave her first major interview since the scandal.

While she did not address the scandal directly during her conversation with First for Women Magazine, she opened up about forgiveness and learning to move forward.

“I try to be a forgiving person. I’m not one to hold onto stuff. Stuff happens to everyone. We’ve all been in positions to ask for forgiveness but to ask for it, you have to learn and know how to give forgiveness, too,” she said.

“My family wasn’t one to hold grudges. I didn’t grow up in a household where if you made a mistake, you weren’t forgiven,” she continued. “No one is perfect, we all make mistakes. So I was always told to let stuff go. And I think for your own health, you have to let things go because you can’t hang on to negativity. Life’s too short.”

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As for her secret to overcoming life’s challenges, Loughlin said: “For me, it’s just persevering.”

“As an actress, I hear ‘no’ a lot, so I just have to be myself and persevere and try not to let in negativity,” she explained at the time. “My advice is to just keep moving forward. Everyone has good times and bad times. That’s life. I think you just have to pick yourself up. Nobody said life was going to be a breeze. There’s beauty in life, but there’s also hardship in life.”